Congratulations to Associate Professor and Director of Wireless Networking and Information Processing(WiNIP) Lab , Dr. Fatemeh Afghah on receiving a $541,949 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation. This is a prestigious grant, also known as the Faculty Early Career Development program. The program seeks to support early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education, and to lead advances in the mission of… Read more
Professor Scott Goetz of Northern Arizona University’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems and associate professor Deborah Huntzinger of NAU’s School of Earth and Sustainability co-authored a paper published in Science finding that forests can be best deployed in the fight against climate change with a proper understanding of the risks to forests that climate change itself imposes. Given the tremendous ability of forests to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, some governments are counting on… Read more
With the ongoing challenges associated with large-scale testing for COVID-19—including test kit shortages, stringent testing criteria and the inherent limitations of current tracking systems on mildly symptomatic and asymptomatic populations, scientists are looking for alternate methods to boost testing in order to predict the spread of the disease. Crystal Hepp, an assistant professor in NAU’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS), is testing wastewater in northern Arizona communities to help… Read more
Joe Mihaljevic, a mathematical epidemiologist and assistant professor in Northern Arizona University’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS), is leading a new project to create computer modeling systems to predict outcomes of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, across four northern Arizona counties—Coconino, Navajo, Apache and Mohave. Read more
SICCS students looking to schedule NAUFlex courses for Fall 2021 will want to know how adaptation is going to work. We’re happy to report that all SICCS courses for Fall 2021 will be ready to take using NAUFlex- but there may be some caveats and limitations with the adaptation of six lab courses: CS136L, EE215L, EE280L, EE348L, EE364L, and EE380L. If you’re taking one of those and have questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to the… Read more
SICCS assistant professor Chris Doughty has long studied megafauna and their role on planet Earth. With the world fighting the spread of COVID-19, Doughty and his team have turned to these large mammals for answers. They found that their extinction led to the emergence of zoonotic infectious diseases in humans. Read more.