Research
Faculty within PNW’s College of Engineering and Sciences conduct world-class research across a broad range of interests.
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Integrative Physiology and Health Sciences (IPHS) Center
The IPHS Center will lead research, teaching, and outreach with a proactive and holistic approach to human health.
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The Stars Teach Here
Our projects involve graduate and undergraduate students, with impacts ranging from local to international and even out of this world.
Research Highlights Include
- Developing methods for rapid development of fingerprints on paper (Charles Steele – Forensics)
- Understanding the Higgs boson and the fundamental physics of the universe (Neeti Parashar and James Dolen – Physics)
- Using light as a catalyst for removing environmental toxins from water (Reynaldo Barreto – Chemistry)
- Determining the minimum number of details required to uniquely identify a boot print (Charles Steele – Forensics)
- Studies of the role of transcription factors in neural tube development (Barbara Mania-Farnell – Biology)
- Studies of the transmuted exponentiated probability distribution (Gokarna Aryal – Statistics)