The 2024 award goes to Bianca Trinkenreich (now at Oregon State University) for her Ph.D. thesis “Understanding and Supporting Women’s Participation in Open Source Software” (Northern Arizona University, advised by Igor Steinmacher and Marco Aurelio Gerosa).
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Disease ecologist awarded $3.5 million to build revolutionary epidemiological platform
Mathematical modeling—which combines math, statistics, computing and data—is a critical tool for public health professionals, who use it to study how diseases spread, predict the future course of outbreaks and evaluate strategies for controlling epidemics. Assistant professor Joe Mihaljevic of Northern Arizona University’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) has been working with public health partners across the state and the country to share computer models mapping the spread of the coronavirus. Mihaljevic, a disease ecologist who applies… Read more
Congratulations John Hardy for receiving the NAU/NASA space grant!
Congratulations John Hardy for receiving the NAU/NASA space grant (Fall 2022-Spring 2023).
John Hardy is the third-year Electrical Engineering undergraduate student in Dr. Ying-Chen (Daphne) Chen’s research lab, who has been showing a great interests and potential in conducting cutting-edge research on next-generation microelectronics.
The project being funded will be focused on the oxide-based memory for neural network implementations towards the computing challenges.
Congratulations to Jasmine Mendez and Adam Wilson on receiving the Hooper Undergraduate Research Award(HURA)
Jasmine Mendez and Adam Wilson received the prestigious Hooper Undergraduate Research Award(HURA) for their project The Selfish Sequences in Squamate Genomes: Evolutionary Dynamics of CR1 and LINE-1 non-LTR Retrotransposons.
NAU scientists studying how climate change is impacting caribou populations
Scientists say caribou are arguably the most important land animals in the arctic, and they’re hoping new research will help them understand how they are being impacted by climate change and human development. Through drones, satellite images, and GPS collars with video cameras, Logan Berner with Northern Arizona University is one of the experts working on the new project. The research, which will span over the next three years, includes a number of institutions and was made possible by… Read more
Decoding biological mysteries with algae: NAU team wins $3M from NSF to model microbiome
The tiny cosmos of organisms living on a streamer of algae in a river—the algal microbiome—could help scientists learn what turns an environment from healthy to toxic and back again. A multidisciplinary team led by Northern Arizona University has won $3 million from the National Science Foundation to translate the codex contained in the microbiome of common algae into computer algorithms that can predict a wide range of microbial interactions. Read more.