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  • For second consecutive year, NAU ranks in top 200 in NSF research rankings

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For second consecutive year, NAU ranks in top 200 in NSF research rankings

Posted by Heather Tate on February 5, 2021

Faculty researcher and students doing research at wind farm.

Northern Arizona University moved up five spots in the most recent National Science Foundation’s (NSF) national research rankings, moving to No. 191 with a fiscal year 2019 performance of $58.91 million.

Year after year, NAU has risen in these rankings, which takes research expenditures into account. NAU also rose… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Center for Health Equity Research, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

NAU’s Center for Health Equity Research receives $1.2 million in funding for multidisciplinary projects related to COVID-19

Posted by Heather Tate on October 21, 2020

Julie Baldwin standing inside the ARD buildingResearchers in Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) and the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) recently received four grants totaling more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for projects related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

NAU Regents’ Professor Julie Baldwin, director of CHER and the principal… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of Education, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of Health and Human Services, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Anthropology, Department of Applied Indigenous Studies, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Educational Leadership, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of Educational Specialties, Department of Health Sciences, Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative

NAU researchers launch first large-scale study of tooth decay among preschoolers in southern Arizona and on island of Hawai’i

Posted by Heather Tate on August 17, 2020

Slava Fofanov working in his labNationally, rates of early childhood caries, or tooth decay, among Hispanic, American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander children are almost double those of white children, making it the most prevalent chronic disease among these populations—occurring five times as frequently as asthma.

Researchers at Northern Arizona University have been working on a major study of… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative

NAU researchers study effects of COVID-19, health disparities on caregivers of people with ADRD

Posted by Heather Tate on June 17, 2020

Michael McCarthy standing and writing on a white boardSixteen million family members in the US are caregivers for the more than 6 million people living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD). For many caregivers in rural areas such as northern Arizona, health disparities prevent them from accessing the healthcare and support services they need. COVID-19-related isolation is adding… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of Health and Human Services, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Educational Psychology, School of Nursing, Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative

Two NAU research centers receive Flinn Foundation funding to support COVID-19 response

Posted by Heather Tate on June 16, 2020

C. Todd French in his labScientists at two Northern Arizona University research centers—the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute (PMI) and the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER)—recently received grants totaling $175,000 from the Flinn Foundation in support of projects directed at responding to the COVID-19 threat.

Researchers in PMI are internationally recognized for their expertise in the genomic… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, COVID-19, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

NAU receives $6.83 million grant to continue community-based Native American cancer prevention program

Posted by Heather Tate on November 22, 2019

NACP Leadership group
The leadership team of the Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention

Northern Arizona University has been awarded $6.83 million to continue its efforts in cancer research, training and outreach programs serving Native American communities for the next five years.

Since 2002, Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) have received funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to alleviate the unequal burden of cancer among… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Health Equity Research, College of Health and Human Services, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Health Sciences, Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention (NACP)

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