Research & Academics

Feb. 19, 2019

Nearly four in 1,000 children are afflicted with cerebral palsy (CP), making it the most common cause of pediatric physical disability in the United States. This neurological disorder, typically caused by damage to the brain before birth, affects a child’s muscle control and coordination and often makes walking extremely difficult. What’s more, children with CP in Arizona, in both rural and urban areas, lack access to the basic treatment needed to prevent this ambulatory decline, which worsens… Read more

Feb. 18, 2019

On graduation day, dozens of seniors from Northern Arizona University cross the stage, shake hands with the president, wave to their families and move their tassel from the right side to the left—of their graduation hard hat.

Then they all go to work.

Construction management is a growing field, and NAU’s program, part of the recently created College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, can’t grow fast enough to keep construction companies in Arizona staffed. In January, associate… Read more

Feb. 13, 2019

The College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences hasn’t even had its first birthday yet, and it’s already making history, becoming the first college at Northern Arizona University to have a Ph.D. program in each of its departments.

The Arizona Board of Regents voted last week to approve three new programs for the college. Doctoral programs in mechanical engineering and applied physics and materials science (APMS) will begin in the fall, with the civil and environmental engineering program… Read more

NAU President Rita Cheng led a delegation of university leadership to partner institution Center for Technical and Higher Education University (CETYS) in Mexicali, Mexico, earlier this month to further develop programming and collaborative initiatives between the two institutions.

University leadership and staff from various departments across the Flagstaff campus and NAU-Yuma joined the presidential delegation, including: David Schultz, vice president for research; Daniel Palm, associate vice president for global initiatives and executive director for the Center for International Education; Michael… Read more

Feb. 13, 2019