Aspiring to Discover

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

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

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

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

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

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

From scared to successful

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

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

Undergraduate making an impact searching for cancer-fighting drugs

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

Undergrad studies microbiology, genetics to prepare for nursing career

Designing software for microbiologists and geneticists

Asteroid miner in training: Student researcher studies micrometeorite weathering

An undergraduate with a passion for infectious disease research

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

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

Childhood stargazing sparks a lifelong interest in astronomy for undergraduate researcher

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

NAU undergraduate researcher is tackling opioid addiction from a new angle

Researcher seeks to restore humanity through chemistry

A cultural approach to cancer prevention

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

Mom’s cancer diagnosis makes research personal

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