Natural Sciences

Gonzaga has received 49 grants for a total of $6.54 million from the Murdock Trust to support faculty and student research.

Gonzaga introduces the John and Joan Bollier Family Center for Integrated Science and Engineering - recognizing the family's commitment to helping all students pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

John Orcutt, Ph.D., Gonzaga University assistant professor of biology, has been hounded by media worldwide recently, but he's not complaining one bit.

After more than two decades developing leaders through the Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program, Gonzaga doubles down on preparing innovators in business, engineering and science with a $49.7 million investment in an Integrated Science and Engineering (ISE) facility opening later this year.

Scientists estimate that 1 billion people worldwide are infected with parasitic helminths, round worms that live in soil and colonize human guts through dirty water. Gonzaga Professor Jennifer Shepherd, Ph.D., has co-led a study showing that the helminths are able to survive in the low-oxygen environment of the human gut due to a unique enzyme variant.

Jane Tiedt, Ph.D., registered nurse, and associate dean of Graduate Programs in Gonzaga's School of Nursing and Human Physiology, to be inducted into the prestigious National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education.

Raven Maragh-Lloyd, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication studies at Gonzaga University, is part of a unique research project examining how and why some people adopt extreme political and cultural views through their use of social media, and what might be done to identify, predict, and prevent that behavior.

A fourth-year student at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Xun has taken this year off to co-found a biotech startup that is using 3D printing technologies to rapidly prototype medical devices for the possible treatment victims of COVID-19.

As Gonzaga undergraduates approach final exams during this unprecedented time of dislocation and disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, faculty reflect on insights and lessons learned following the mid-semester shift to remote learning.

A tool for transformational collaborative nanoscience research.

In a panel hosted by the School of Engineering & Applied Science, STEM professors Betsy Bancroft, Allison Lambert, Lex Gidley and Kate Kearney answered questions about their research, their careers and gender relations in their fields.

Through a donation of laboratory equipment to GU's chemistry and biochemistry department, Providence Medical Research Center's Katherine Tuttle hopes students will be inspired to use science to improve human health.

Mia Bertagnolli, Ph.D., has been named co-director for a five-year, $999,899 National Science Foundation grant supporting the advancement of mid-career STEM women faculty at colleges and universities in three U.S. regions.

The Greater Gonzaga Guild lecture series welcomes Henning at 11:30 a.m., Sept. 24 in the McCarthey Athletic Center Herak Club Room; reservations required.

Gonzaga students and faculty find new solutions through interdisciplinary collaboration.

Five Gonzaga students are participating in some of the nation's top biomedical research, working alongside noted experts to address health issues that affect Eastern Washington.