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Have a story to tell?

Contact the Undergraduate Research Coordinator at 928-523-5569

Read these stories to find out more about the range of research opportunities offered to undergraduates at NAU.

Environmental Science and Biology major Emma Elsner is studying the correlation between monarchs and milkweed


NAU Informatics major Jason Libby is developing computer software to help solve a mystery on Pluto’s surface


Mackenzie Baradic

Creative Media and Film major Mackenzie Baradic is documenting the stories of migrants, and those who help them, as they risk their lives to cross the Sonoran desert


Josette Vigil working in the BDL lab

Josette Vigil, an NAU Mechanical Engineering major, applies bioengineering to advance medical device science


Zachariah Bess sitting at a computer in Health and Science building

Chemistry major Zachariah Bess is helping develop a sustainable energy option using ionic liquids prepared from amino acids


Mariah Letowt standing by research poster

Nature or nurture? Senior spends her NAU career researching the role of genetics vs. learning in how birds acquire ‘language’


Hannah Bechtel typing on a computer.

NAU undergraduate tackles the question of college students’ stress levels in senior research project


Mitzzy Lopez working in lab

From scared to successful


Ayanna

Political Science major focuses her research on notorious public housing project, social justice


Reilly Leudde working on a computer

Can big data make big money? Undergraduate researcher hopes to find out through math, data analysis, business acumen


Matt Salanga and Phillip Kalaniopio working in lab

Undergraduate making an impact searching for cancer-fighting drugs


Cecily Combs and Abe Springer

NAU undergraduate finds her research home in geology, 4FRI project


Undergraduate student Karisma Kocos working in the PMI lab

Undergrad studies microbiology, genetics to prepare for nursing career


Allen Clarke working in the PMI lab

Designing software for microbiologists and geneticists


Mitchell Magnuson working in the PEAXS lab

Asteroid miner in training: Student researcher studies micrometeorite weathering


Kaitlyn Parra working in the PMI lab.

An undergraduate with a passion for infectious disease research


Chris Keefe in the PMI office

Undergraduate researcher uses bioinformatics to find connections between gut microbiome and Alzheimer’s


Undergraduate student researcher Daryn Erickson at the Undergraduate Symposium with her poster

Faculty mentors inspire undergraduate researcher to focus on mosquito-borne viruses


Jacob Hyden with mentor Christina Thomas at the Discovery Channel Telescope

Childhood stargazing sparks a lifelong interest in astronomy for undergraduate researcher


Kyle Ghaby in front of his research poster at the Undergraduate Symposium

Supercomputers, zebra fish, and insulin: undergraduate researcher combines physics and biology


Noelle Waltenberg working on opioid research in Naomi Lee's lab.

NAU undergraduate researcher is tackling opioid addiction from a new angle


Taylor Lambrigger working on research project in forensic lab

Researcher seeks to restore humanity through chemistry


A cultural approach to cancer prevention


Mia Orneals working on research project

If you want to help babies, you have to help moms


Joseph Espinoza labeling water samples in the lab

Mom’s cancer diagnosis makes research personal


Giulia Paulet demonstrating process on white board

Student finds unexpected depth of learning possible through simulation games


Taking the bite out of fleas


Math and social science collide


Engineering for climate change


Art in the quest for social justice


The mathematics of gene mutation


Hunting dangerous pathogens

Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity
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Room 439 Building 60
Student and Academic Services
610 South Knoles Drive
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5801
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PO Box 5801
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5801
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