Two NAU students were selected from a field of highly competitive applicants as winners of the Udall Foundation’s scholarship and internship programs. The foundation supports students who are committed to careers related to the environment, Tribal public policy or Native American health care with up to $7,500 for educational expenses. Chamryn Carl, a junior in exercise physiology with minors in nutrition and health wellness coaching, was one…

This summer, NAU students from multiple disciplines embarked on a journey to learn how Scandinavian design is shaping more equitable, sustainable and collaborative societies. The NAU in Denmark: Hygge to Hashtags: Culture, Communication, and Social Design in Scandinavia course led by Michelle B. Carpenter, executive director of the School of Communication, showed students how designs rooted in cultural values can be more than just aesthetics. “The program…

Here’s what we know about the outer solar system: It’s really cold. Travel beyond the asteroid belt, and you’re suddenly surrounded by ice-covered planets, stars, moons and many other small objects. Here’s what we don’t know about the outer solar system: how most of that ice behaves. With funding from the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), NAU Ph.D. student Ivy Knudsen is trying to change that. Over the…

Think your caffeine tolerance is high? Think again. While the average person drinks about three cups of coffee a day, that’s nothing compared to what the coffee berry borer can handle. These 1- to 2-millimeter-long beetles, which drill into growing coffee beans and eat them from the inside out, are able to ingest about 100 times more caffeine than…

How do you help students get over their reticence of AI? The answer, according to one psychology professor, is simple: You don’t. You teach students how to use AI ethically, in a way that enhances their learning and enables them to think critically about AI-produced material. In the process, you give them the tools to either use AI responsibly or decide it’s not for them. Funded by a TRAIL grant, Viktoria Tidikis, a teaching…

Northern Arizona University received its first T32 grant from the National Institutes of Health, which will allow the university to fund 20 doctoral students over a five-year period. The grant, awarded to G-RISE at Northern Arizona University, is $1.76 million over five years, providing funding for 20 doctoral students in four different disciplines. Powered by grant funds, G-RISE is focused on increasing the breadth and quality of the biomedical and…