By Trevor Thornton, NCI-SW Director   Miguel José Yacamán, a faculty member in the ¡MIRA! Center at NAU and a principal investigator for the NCI-SW renewal has been awarded a grant from the NSF’s Rapid Response Research (RAPID) funding program to develop a physics-based technology for COVID-19 testing. The new project, called “Development of a Read More …

By Trevor Thornton, NCI-SW Director   The ASU Open Door held each Spring is the largest public outreach event hosted by the University with tens of thousands of people flooding the Tempe campus each year under normal conditions. Of course, with the pandemic still affecting our lives, this year was very much out of the Read More …

By Trevor Thornton, NCI-SW Director As part of the NCI-SW renewal and our partnership with the ¡MIRA! Center at NAU we are hosting a series of free colloquium presentations that are held ‘live’ via Zoom each Thursday, and then archived on our YouTube channel for later viewing. While the broad focus of the colloquia is Read More …

SPRING 2021 NEWSLETTER   Welcome With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) the NCI-SW has been renewed for a further 5 years with a number of exciting new changes.  Read More….   Open Door Spring 2021 The ASU Open Door held each Spring is the largest public outreach event hosted by the University with Read More …

By Trevor Thornton, NCI-SW Director   With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the NCI-SW has been renewed for a further 5 years with a number of exciting new changes. Chief amongst these is our collaboration with the Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications, or ¡MIRA! at Northern Arizona University (NAU). This Read More …