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Karletta Chief, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist in the University of Arizona Department of Environmental Science and Principal Investigator for the NSF-NRT “Indige-FEWSS” program, is one of 36 American Geophysical Union honorees this year, receiving the AGU Ambassador Award and a conferred fellowship.

The relationships developed through the Indige-FEWSS partnership with Diné College and Navajo communities has allowed UArizona faculty and students to provide expert advice, technology and donations to support Navajo resiliece during the pandemic.

Abolhassan Mohammadi Fathabad is a PhD candidate in systems and industrial engineering. He was awarded funding from Tech Launch Arizona (TLA) to develop inventions with the goal of bringing them to the public as impactful products to benefit society.

Dr. Vasiliki Karanikola and Dr. Karletta Chief were awarded funding from The Haury Program. The Haury Program has also provided funding to PhD candidate, Nikki Tulley, to assist Dr. Chief to address water supply, access, and contamination issues on the Navajo Nation under the current COVID-19 pandemic.

The Indige-FEWSS team contributed their efforts with the Navajo Safe Water Project to assist off-grid Navajo families with water needs for hand washing and quality drinking water.

Indigenous Food, Energy & Water Security and Sovereignty (Indige-FEWSS) won a Presenters’ Choice Award for their submission to NSF sponsored STEM for All Video Showcase.

Dr. Vasiliki "Vicky" Karanikola, IES Faculty Partner and Assistant Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, was named Early Career Scholar Awardee by the UArizona Office of the Provost.

The NSF "Indigenous Food, Energy & Water Security and Sovereignty" National Research Traineeship partners with the University of Arizona Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership to present the Native Voices in STEM seminar series.

A group of faculty, staff and students sets out to build an off-the-grid system to power water filtration for communities across the Navajo Nation, where running water is not universal. But first, they set out to understand life on the reservation.