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- NAU’s Martin-Springer Institute (MSI) is opening its student- and faculty-created exhibition on disappearances in Mexico, titled “Disappeared: Portrait of Absence,” within the Museo del Holocausto in Guatemala on April 18. The day before the exhibition opening, MSI Director and Regents’ professor Björn Krondorfer will give a presentation on Holocaust objects and spaces at the museum. Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice assistant professor Pedro Gonzalez will formally open the exhibit the following day.
- Collins Ezea, a graduate student studying applied sociology, presented his master’s thesis research to the Southwestern Social Science Association on April 3. The association awarded his thesis research paper, titled “An Exploration of Arizona’s Mental Health Services for International Graduate Students,” its best master’s paper award, making Ezea the first student to earn the honor for two consecutive years. In addition, Ezea received the association’s $300 Pascal Ngoboka Student Travel Grant, which is designed to fund travel expenses for students with limited institutional support.
- Aerospace company Northrop Grumman launched the STPSat-7 satellite payload on April 7, which includes the Satellite Fingerprint Experiment (SFPE) developed by affiliates of NAU’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems over the past 10 years. SFPE will allow the satellite to generate on-demand encryption keys in space that can be predicted by trusted systems on the ground.
- Department of Anthropology assistant teaching professor Kayeleigh Sharp traveled to Vienna, Austria, with three NAU students to participate in two international archaeology conferences.
- Larry Griffith, a graduate student studying computer science, gave a lightning presentation at the Conference of the Global pXRF Network, titled “Are ‘smart’ tools really smarter?: Mobile AI for pXRF in Archaeological Fieldwork.” Sharp and Griffith hosted a discussion table on case study implications at the same conference.
- NAU was represented in two sessions at the 53rd annual meeting of the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology organization:
- Graduate anthropology student Kate Collette presented the paper “Applying Convolutional Neural Networks to Archaeological Skeletal Analysis: Toward Open-Access Bioarchaeological Methods” in a session on artificial intelligence co-organized by Sharp. Collette’s paper was one of 12 nominated for the Nick Ryan Bursary Award.
- Tate Whittaker, an undergraduate student studying computer science, presented the paper “DIGital: A Substantive Virtual Field School Experience,” which focuses on a capstone project directed by Sharp, in a session on digital archaeology research.