Dr. Logan Berner was named a 2021 Champion of the Environment by the ARCS Foundation. Berner is an Assistant Research Professor in SICCS and a former ARCS Scholar who’s research focuses on how forest and tundra ecosystems are impact by climate change. The ARCS Foundation is a national nonprofit organization founded and run entirely by women with the goal advancing American leadership, science, and technology. Berner and several other former ARCS Scholars were recognized for leading the way in preserving and… Read more
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Congratulations Maxwell Weiss and Isaiah Shipley for receiving the NAU/NASA space grant
Congratulations Maxwell Weiss and Isaiah Shipley for receiving the NAU/NASA space grant (Fall 2021-Spring 2022).
Maxwell and Isaiah are the third-year undergraduate students in Dr. Daphne Chen’s research lab, who has been showed a great interests and potentials in conducting the cutting-edge research.
The project being funded will be focused on the neural network implementations and epidermal sensory systems towards the outer space challenges.
Ruddell receives 2021 ESA Sustainability Science Award
SICCS Professor Ben Ruddell and a team of scientists associated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory were awarded the 2021 Ecological Society of America Sustainability Science Award for their work on the PNAS publication “US cities can manage national hydrology and biodiversity using local infrastructure policy.” The Sustainability Science Award recognizes the authors of the scholarly work that makes the greatest contribution to the emerging science of ecosystem and regional sustainability through the integration of ecological and social sciences.… Read more
Congratulations to Isaiah Shipley on receiving the Jean Shuler Research Mini-Grant 2021!
Isaiah Shipley is a third-year undergraduate in Electrical Engineering working in Dr. Daphne Chen’s group, and conducting the research in emerging non-volatile memory and neuromorphic computing. His proposal has been selected as one of four recipients on Jean Shuler Research Mini-grant (one-year research project). He is highly self-motivated, enthusiastic on doing research, creative, and hopes to continue research with more nanomaterials and in-memory computing at NAU SICCS.
NAU researcher collaborates with ASU team to develop groundbreaking technology for improved food safety
The multidisciplinary project led by Dr. Razi will use dendritic tags to enable food traceability at any point in the supply chain, which should help reduce food waste and foodborne illnesses. Read More.
Morgan Vigil-Hayes Quantifies and Addresses Gaps in Internet Connectivity in Rural and Tribal Communities
Dr. Vigil-Hayes is partnering with teachers and parents at STAR School to design and develop the Digital Backpack (DigiPack), an opportunistic content delivery system and mobile application that allows students living on Navajo Nation to engage with digital learning content at home even when Internet connectivity is slow, intermittent, or non-existent. This project is funded under Stage I of the competitive NSF CIVIC Innovation program.
Dr. Vigil-Hayes’ collaborative work quantifying the inaccuracies of mobile broadband coverage maps was Read more