Jayne Sandoval grew up in Ute Pass Valley, a small area of the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona that had been passed down in her family for generations. But it was more than just the place she was raised–it was where she learned to connect with her Native American culture and the Earth.
Because of her fear of gang violence and the growing drug problem surrounding her community, Sandoval’s… Read more
2020 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award winner, Ali Farghadan, hails from Tehran, Iran where he studied at the Sharif University of Technology and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. During his undergraduate program, he observed the growing significance of engineering in biology and human health and decided to focus on this area of research for his graduate studies. As a student in the Master of Science Mechanical Engineering program at NAU, he joined Dr. Amirhossein Arzani’s Cardiovascular… Read more