Aspiring to Discover | Undergraduate Research

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

Trailblazing research seeks to protect Sedona’s landscapes

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

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