Services and facilities

The NAU Centennial Forest is Northern Arizona University’s research, teaching, and demonstration forest — a cooperative venture between Northern Arizona University and the Arizona State Land Department. The forest encompasses 4,000 acres in northern Arizona Ponderosa pine forest habitat.

The Center for Bioengineering Innovation is to build Northern Arizona University’s capacity to produce nationally recognized basic science discoveries in the area of bioengineering; to transform these discoveries into applications that improve lives and foster economic growth in Arizona and beyond; and to provide cutting-edge training in bioengineering research for undergraduates, graduate students, and post-doctoral scholars who will join the biotechnology workforce.

The Child Speech and Language Lab (CSLL) is housed in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. The researchers in this lab study early speech and language development in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

CPAL is a consortium of five analytical services labs. Read about these labs and the services they provide to researchers at Northern Arizona University.

EnGGen supports environmental and ecological applications of genetic technology, as well as biomedical research and studies that require molecular marker development, DNA sequencing, and genetic fingerprinting studies

GRAIL provides technological support to conduct Geographical Information Systems teaching or research.

Discover how the High Performance Computing Cluster can help the research community to address complex research questions across many disciplines

Discover the extensive digital imaging technology available at the Imaging and Histology Core Facility

Merriam-Powell Research Station offers affordable housing and research facilities to scientists and students conducting field work. MPRS facilities are also available to educational, scientific, and environmental organizations for day-long or multi-day meetings and workshops.

The Realization of Advanced Products and Intelligent Designs Laboratory (RAPIDLab) uses engineering design, prototyping, and testing for innovative product realization.

Learn more about the Research Greenhouse Complex, which includes eight 1,000-square-foot-greenhouse and more than 18,000 square feet of additional work space.

In late 2011, the National Science Foundation awarded a grant to NAU to develop the Southwest Experimental Garden Array (SEGA) for Integrating Genetics and Climate Change. The garden array is a system of 10 experimental gardens across northern Arizona that encompasses habitat types ranging from desert to mixed-conifer forests.

WCCER offers housing and research facilities to scientists, students, and classes conducting field work. The WCCER occupies the Forest Service’s decommissioned Walnut Creek Station and administrative site. Each year a wide range of researchers, students, and public visitors use the 250-acre site, which contains Arizona uplands and riparian gallery forest.

Northern Arizona University has a strong partnership with The Arboretum at Flagstaff, a 200-acre botanical garden, research station, and environmental education center.

The Northern Arizona University Art Museum permanent collections include works by modern artists, as well as turn-of-the-twentieth-century American furniture and antiques. It features special exhibitions yearly and offers an Arts Outreach Program for northern Arizona school teachers.

Cline Library houses archival material which documents the history and development of the Colorado Plateau, including the Colorado Plateau Digital Archives. Cline Library also houses the University Archives and the archives of the Arizona Historical Society, Northern Division.

The Colorado Plateau Biodiversity Center collections support research and education in ecology, evolution, and conservation, with special emphases in paleontology, quaternary climate change, botany, entomology, marine invertebrates, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, fungi, and DNA bioinformatics.

The Museum of Northern Arizona is the only accredited museum within 150 miles of Flagstaff, and plays a vital role as interpreter of the Colorado Plateau. Northern Arizona University has a close, long-standing affiliation with the museum.