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Two scientists awarded prestigious Scialog grants supporting new research to detect, mitigate emerging animal-borne infectious diseases

Posted by Heather Tate on December 14, 2021

New initiative supports building a collaborative community of early-career scientists

Crystal Hepp holding container with mosquitosJason Ladner holding specimenZoonotic diseases—caused by germs that spread between animals and people—are very common. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three of every four new or emerging infectious diseases in people come from animals—for example, scientists… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

Team of disease ecologists documents person-to-person spread of antimicrobial-resistant plague

Posted by Heather Tate on August 12, 2021

New strain of deadly disease caused by Yersinia pestis emerged in an outbreak in rural Madagascar


Although the world is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many other dangerous pathogens still out there, like Yersinia pestis, which causes plague – the deadly disease that killed tens of millions of people during the infamous Black Death in the 14th century. Although plague has been largely eradicated in the developed world, it still… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

Team awarded $2M NSF grant to teach virtual explorers about permafrost and Arctic climate change

Posted by Heather Tate on July 19, 2021

Arctic illustrationScientists at Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University, the Arizona Geological Survey at the University of Arizona and the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder have been awarded almost $2 million from the National Science Foundation to develop a virtual reality teaching tool called Polar Explorer. In this… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Earth and Sustainability

FEWSION: Creating more resilient supply chains through nature-inspired design

Posted by Heather Tate on July 7, 2021

Fewsion illustrationA new paper in Nature lays out the way natural ecosystems parallel U.S. supply chains and how American cities can use these tools to strengthen their supply chains.

The paper, “Supply chain diversity buffers cities against food shocks,” is co-authored by Benjamin Ruddell, director of the FEWSION Project and the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

NAU team finds US greenhouse gas emissions decline during COVID lockdown 3x greater than previously reported

Posted by Heather Tate on May 3, 2021

Scientists build reliable, real-time emissions estimate system to inform, correct public policy as nation takes on new reduction targets

CO2 emissions illustrationThe COVID-19 pandemic has altered energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally and continues to influence emissions as the response to COVID-19 evolves. Reliable data that can provide a real-time update of emissions has been difficult to acquire… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, COVID-19, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

NAU-TGen study results show COVID-19 virus triggers antibodies from previous coronavirus infections

Posted by Heather Tate on January 19, 2021

Jason Ladner working in labThe results of a study led by Northern Arizona University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, suggest the immune systems of people infected with COVID-19 may rely on antibodies created during infections from earlier coronaviruses to help fight the disease.

COVID-19 isn’t humanity’s first encounter with a coronavirus, so named because… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Biological Sciences, TGen, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

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