Dr. Emily Cope was interviewed by the Arizona Daily Sun on April 23, 2023, click here to read the details about her passion with improving human health through targeting microbiomes.
CEFNS in the news
What Mars can tell us about Earth
What do Mars and Iceland have in common? These days, not so much. But more than 4.5 billion years ago, it’s possible the Red Planet had a crust comparable to Iceland today. Valerie Payré, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, is a part of a research team that studied a martian meteorite that… Read more
Earthquake seismologist launches international study of oceanic plate
Congrats to professor James Gaherty and associate professor Ryan Porter of Northern Arizona University’s School of Earth and Sustainability who were recently awarded $473,000 by the National Science Foundation for a study of the Cocos oceanic plate beneath Central America. NAU is collaborating on a large project led by Samer Naif of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Gaherty and Porter will lead… Read more
Rodeo-Chediski Fire scarred Arizona forests. How have they changed in the past 20 years?
Peter Fulé, regents’ professor in the School of Forestry, Alicia Azpeleta-Tarancón, researcher and lecturer in the School of Forestry, and Andrew Sánchez Meador, director of NAU’s Ecological Restoration Institute spoke to AZ Central on the 20th anniversary… Read more
NAU team studies how spring water affects ecosystems
Springs are immensely important to Arizona’s ecosystems and its people, and springs can tell us a lot about both, according to Abe Springer, whose Northern Arizona University research team studies spring water and groundwater and their effects on the environment.
For the past 10 years, the… Read more
Pathways to the skies: NAU and CCC launch partnership to increase URM participation in astronomy, planetary science and other STEM fields
We are excited to share with you the news that professor David Trilling, chair of Northern Arizona University’s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to launch a new partnership with Coconino Community College (CCC). The initiative will create a pathway for recruiting 20 CCC2NAU students into paid internships working… Read more