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Faculty Spotlight: Diana Calvo Martinez

Jennifer Martin | December 8, 2025

Dr. Diana Calvo Martinez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Construction Management and Environmental Engineering, was recently awarded the Dr. William Yslas Vélez STEM Award. … Read more

Commitment and community: Ted and Marci Levie

Jennifer Martin |

This fall, Ted and Marci Levie were named the Steve Sanghi College of Engineering’s recipients of the 2025 President’s Alumni Award. Recognized during the university’s Honored Alumni & Hall of Fame ceremony, the Levies were celebrated not only for their professional achievements, but for a shared lifetime of service, advocacy, and commitment to expanding opportunity for the next generation of NAU engineering students… Read more

Gold Axe Honorees from SCE

Jennifer Martin |

Every semester, NAU chooses a small group of seniors whose commitment to leadership, academics, and service is equal to the spirit of the Lumberjack community. This semester’s Gold Axe Award winners from the Sanghi College of Engineering are Ellington Baggerly, Fatima Botello, and Olivia Vester. From building teams that serve others to creating spaces for extracurricular activities, these students show what it means to lead with purpose. … Read more

New SICCS faculty showcase AI research

Jennifer Martin | November 24, 2025

AI brings many changes and challenges to separate industries, also changing the way professors and students research inside and outside of the classrooms, but SICCS is making sure students and professors learn to use these AI responsibly while also using it to aid them in their research and labs. … Read more

Scholarship highlight: Bex Cabral

Jennifer Martin | November 21, 2025

Bex Cabral, a sophomore majoring in Immersive Media and Game Design with a minor in Studio Art, earned the VMware Fellow Martin Casado Computer Science Scholarship. Sponsored by Martin Casado, a software engineer, entrepreneur, and NAU alumnus, the scholarship awards up to $30,000 per person and recognizes students in computer science and related fields… Read more

From Curiosity to Discovery: Nathan Jacobs guest lecture December 1

Jennifer Martin |

When Nathan Jacobs took his first steps into computer science as an undergraduate, he had no idea he was heading toward a career at the forefront of machine learning and multimodal vision research. Now a professor of computer science, assistant vice provost for digital transformation, and director of the Multimodal Vision Research Laboratory at Washington University in St… Read more