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Each year the NAU Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President for Research present a series of Research and Creative Activity Awards.
This year, GEODE PhD student Katie Orndahl was awarded NAU’s Most Promising Graduate Student Research Scholar.
This award is given to a graduate student “who has displayed excellence in research and scholarship, and demonstrated significant potential for further success in his/her discipline.”