Research & Academics
This Ph.D. student’s research could help save a rare desert bird
Victoria Wiley, a second-year doctoral student in population biology, received a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to investigate whether the desert purple martin, a rare Southwestern bird, is its own species. Her work could help secure federal protected status for the cactus-loving birds. Views from NAU
What Memorial Day means to me
For Brandon Piestewa, whose mother was taken prisoner and later killed during the Iraq War, Memorial Day has a different importance. It's a time to remember and pass on the legacies of soldiers and their sacrifices. Research & Academics
NAU engineering students take first place in national hydropower competition
An interdisciplinary team of senior engineering students entered the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydropower Collegiate Competition to fulfill their capstone requirements—and won. The team, made up of three electrical engineering students and three mechanical engineering students, took first place in all three of the competition’s challenges—siting, design and community connections—earning first overall for the competition. MORE NEWS