NAU senior wins national Udall Undergraduate Scholarship
This month, Bahe was announced as a winner of the prestigious Udall Undergraduate Scholarship, a national scholarship program for students preparing for careers in the environment, tribal public policy or Native health care. The winners also must demonstrate leadership potential, a record of public service and academic achievement. Read full NAU Review article.
Using the Force: Force microscopy research nets Ph.D. student a scholarship—and a job—with DOD
¡MIRA! PhD student Jorge Muñoz receives DoD Fellowship! From the article: “Muñoz’s research is focused on using a type of microscope, called an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), to measure materials properties with extremely high-resolution. The approaches he is utilizing and developing allow him to interrogate a variety of materials ranging from artificial aneurysm models to […]
NAU part of consortium working to improve cybersecurity education
Dr. Bertrand Cambou leads Northern Arizona University in its part of a five-university consortium that has recently received a grant to improve cybersecurity education. Read Arizona Daily Sun article.
¡MIRA! Students and Professors use the “weird” in quantum computing to answer hard questions
Zeros and ones, qubits, superpositions, quantum photonics, entanglements, subatomic particles, artificial molecules; all terms that can sound like a foreign language—and that is because, in some sense, the world of quantum computing is. Ph.D. students Jaime Diaz and Taylor Begay-Wilson worked on a project in Bertrand Cambou’s class using IBM’s open software development kit, called qiskit, to better understand quantum computing and […]
Athletics and asteroids
Cross-country runner and physics and mathematics double major Beau Prince studies the surfaces of asteroids—but his dreams don’t stop there. Read NAU Boundless article.
