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From NAU News on May 13 , 2020 Not convinced yet that keeping your distance and wearing a mask is worth the trouble? Perhaps scientific evidence to the contrary will help. Amir Arzani, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is director of the Cardiovascular Biomechanics Lab, which studies the mechanisms behind initiation and progression of different cardiovascular diseases, developing computational models that can capture the multiscale and multiphysics nature of cardiovascular disease. “In my lab, we routinely use a 3-D computer modeling technique…

From NAU News on May 7, 2020 Jayne Sandoval grew up in Ute Pass Valley, a small area of the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona that had been passed down in her family for generations. But it was more than just the place she was raised–it was where she learned to connect with her Native American culture and the Earth. Because of her fear of gang violence and the growing drug problem surrounding her community, Sandoval’s single mother sent her and…

2020 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award winner, Ali Farghadan, hails from Tehran, Iran where he studied at the Sharif University of Technology and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. During his undergraduate program, he observed the growing significance of engineering in biology and human health and decided to focus on this area of research for his graduate studies. As a student in the Master of Science Mechanical Engineering program at NAU, he joined Dr. Amirhossein Arzani’s Cardiovascular Biomechanics Lab…