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Catalyzing systemic change: Team will use $1.3 million in funding to reduce racial disparities in STEM graduate programs

Posted by Heather Tate on March 7, 2022

Partnership between NAU-Flagstaff, NAU-Yuma and Diné College will address educational inequities on an institutional level

Catherine Propper and RISe student working in the labAccording to the National Center for Education Statistics, only 10 percent of all M.S. degrees were awarded to Latinx students between 2015-16, and a stunningly low 1 percent to Indigenous students. The… Read more

Filed Under: College of Arts and Letters, College of Education, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Educational Leadership, Department of English, School of Forestry, STEM

Forest geneticist awarded $1.2 million NSF CAREER grant to study Douglas fir hybridization, genomics and adaptation to climate change

Posted by Heather Tate on January 24, 2022

Award will also fund training of graduate and undergraduate researchers in molecular lab techniques, greenhouse work and bioinformatic analyses

Amanda De La Torre working in her lab

 

The Douglas fir is one of the most economically important timber trees in the U.S. Harvested for the strength of its wood in a wide variety of uses, especially in fencing, home construction and decking, it’s considered the backbone of the western timber industry. But warming temperatures and… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, School of Forestry

Mapping the redwood genome

Posted by Heather Tate on December 16, 2021

Scientists look for genetic clues to determine how long-generation conifers survive and what they’ll need to survive in the face of climate change

Preson walking through redwood trees on path
Photo by Caleb Jones on Unsplash

The secret to the legendary long life of redwood trees and giant sequoias lies in their genomes, a collaborative research team announced… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, School of Forestry

Fairness First Campaign: Bringing community organizations and researchers together through discussions, experiential learning and social mixers

Posted by Heather Tate on November 4, 2021

Carmenlita Chief and Alexandra Sammarron Longorio

Carmenlita Chief and Alexandra Samarron Longorio have devoted their careers to ensuring that every person, especially the most underrepresented and underserved, has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

It was this commitment to health equity that sparked the senior research coordinators at the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative’s Community Engagement Core to create the Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, School of Forestry, Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative

Ecologists compare accuracy of lidar technologies for monitoring forest vegetation

Posted by Heather Tate on July 9, 2021

Person using MLS deviceAs light detection and ranging (lidar) technology evolves, forest ecology and ecological restoration researchers have been using these tools in a wide range of applications.

“We needed an accounting of relative accuracy and errors among lidar platforms within a range of forest types and structural configurations,” said associate professor Andrew Sánchez Meador, executive… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Ecological Restoration Institute, School of Forestry

NAU leading NSF grant that looks at the potential for drones in responding to forest fires

Posted by Heather Tate on March 1, 2021

Fatemeh Afghah talking to studentsThree NAU researchers won a National Science Foundation grant to study the use of drones in responding to forest fires.

Fatemeh Afghah, an associate professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS), is the lead principal investigator in the $1.2 million grant in collaboration with Georgia Tech, the Desert Research Institute and… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, School of Forestry, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

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