Grad Student Jorge Muñoz named DoD SMART Scholarship-for-Service program semifinalist
One of ¡MIRA!'s awesome graduate students, Jorge Muñoz has been selected as a semi-finalist in the DoD's SMART Scholarship-for Service program. This program supports students to pursue their education in some of the leading STEM fields that are currently in high demand by the government. The program offers scholarships for bachelors, masters and PhD students […]
Gibbs, Castañeda published in Particle
Dr. John Gibbs and graduate student John Castañeda published in Particle. Find the journal article here.
PhD students first in NAU history to receive prestigious DOE awards
Graduate students Maria Bolar (¡MIRA!) and Megan Foley are the first from Northern Arizona University to receive awards from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through its Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. Only 65 graduate students from across the country were recognized this year. Through world-class training and access to state-of-the-art facilities […]
Building a better solar panel: NAU graduate wins NSF award to continue research into sustainable energy
Current solar panels capture about 20 percent of the sunlight that hits them. Increasing the efficiency of this technology will mean more renewable energy in the power grid without additional infrastructure. Researchers at Northern Arizona University are looking for ways to use artificially created chlorosomes to create a more efficient solar panel. One of those […]
¡MIRA! Graduate Student Sam Sarkar featured in NAU News
Sarkar, who is on his third graduate degree—he has master’s degrees in computer science and nanotechnology—studies nanotechnology; his primary research focus is developing ways to control circular dichroism (CD) at ultraviolet wavelengths by changing the morphology of chiral nanostructures. Essentially, light can exist in two states of “circular polarization,” where the electric field can rotate […]
