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The NAU Review — How NAU is bolstering Arizona’s utilities, meet ASNAU President Maria Emilia Machelor and registering your Homecoming parade float

by Community Contributor • September 6, 2023 • Comments Off

Sept. 6, 2023

The NAU Review. The official news source for Northern Arizona University.

The Salt River with cliffs and blue sky in the background

Seven ways NAU and SRP are helping build stronger utility systems in Arizona

The utility grid is changing. Electric vehicles mean greater demands on the grid at less predictable times and mean that fueling stations are going to look different in the coming decades. Wildfires and invasive plant species are putting watersheds at risk. To ensure that water and electricity still gets to Arizonans, NAU and the Salt River Project have partnered on a number of research projects that tackle the specific problems SRP is facing in Arizona. Learn more about how these researchers are tackling water quality, how to build an electrical grid that can handle the EVs and the importance of rehabilitating the “living skin” in desert ecosystems that have been overrun by invasive plants.

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Maria Emilia Machelor and her mother in front of a lake and blue sky

Humans of NAU
with Maria Emilia Machelor

Machelor found ASNAU as a freshman. Now a senior—and president—she talks about how she got involved (and how you can too!), how travel continues to define her life and what she has in common with the blue macaw.

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How family finances affect a teenager’s well-being

In her Prosocial Behavior in Juveniles (PBinJ) project, psychological sciences researcher Sonya Xinyue Xiao found that when families face financial difficulties, their teenage children are less likely to engage in helping behavior.

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