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NAU Homecoming Parade
Saturday, Nov. 5, 11 a.m., downtown Flagstaff
Celebrate NAU's "Return to Olympus!" The parade begins at the corner of Elm and Beaver, travels south to Aspen, proceeds east to San Francisco and then north, to finish at San Francisco and Dale. Parts of downtown will be closed to traffic until after the parade ends at 1 p.m., so park accordingly.
NAU vs. Montana football
Saturday, Nov. 5, 3:05 p.m., J. Lawrence Walkup Skydome
Go Jacks!
Lumberjacks on Leroux
Saturday, Nov. 5, 6:30-10 p.m., Heritage Square, downtown Flagstaff
Along with the local trade from Flag's restaurants and bars, NAU's Alumni Association will feature the all-alumni band Shaggin' Wagon and other family fun. Free shuttle buses will run from the Skydome to downtown.
Opera reception
Sunday, Nov. 6, 4:30 p.m., Ardrey Auditorium lobby
The public is invited to a reception following the performance of Der Kaiser von Atlantis to meet board members from the Martin-Springer Institute, the opera cast and the musicians.
Language lecture: "Is This Supposed to Save My Language?" Learning from Community Critiques of a Language Maintenance Program on the White Mountain Apache Reservation
Tuesday Nov. 8, 6 p.m., Social and Behavioral Sciences (bldg. 65) room 217
First lecture in the series Language Across the Univers(ity). M. Eleanor Nevins, Assistant professor of anthropology, San Diego State University. Contact: Jim Wilce, (928) 523-2729
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Peter Likins, president of the University of Arizona, will be on campus Nov. 3 to participate in a discussion with NAU President John Haeger and the campus community about current issues in higher education.
Likins is the second guest in President Haeger's new Speakers Series. His presentation, titled "Universities on Shifting Sands," will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Clifford E. White Theater. (Please note this change in location.) A reception will follow in the theater lobby.
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NAU is part of consortium
studying bioterrorism
Scientists from Northern Arizona University are part of a seven-institution consortium that will develop information and plans to help save lives in case of bioterrorist attack or an outbreak of infectious diseases.
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Signs of suicide: What to look for and what to do
The Northern Arizona University Police Department and NAU's Counseling and Testing Center have reported an increase in students considering suicide. The Counseling and Testing Center offers guidance for faculty, staff and students about what to look for and what to do.
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Festival will celebrate international culture
A week of cultural celebration, including food, film and dance kicks off Monday, Nov. 14, as the Flagstaff International Festival. The festival, and sponsored by Northern Arizona University, will include events on and off campus, including an open house at NAU's international office, Pub Night at Charly's, a one-day International Fair at du Bois, an international dinner at the Inn at NAU and several international films, a flamenco dance performance and much more. For a complete schedule of events, click here.
Talent Pipeline
requesting proposals
The Hewlett/NAU Engineering Talent Pipeline project is requesting proposals for 2006/07 by Wednesday, Nov. 30. The Talent Pipeline's mission is to improve recruitment and retention of students in engineering with a focus on women and underrepresented minorities. The majority of this year's funding is expected to go toward continuing projects, but limited funds will be available for new projects. Interdepartmental partnerships are encouraged, and a full proposal must be submitted for continuing projects to be considered for funding. The RFP can be found here. Contact: Shawn Newell, (928) 523-8285.
Flexible spending enrollment runs through Nov. 30
The annual opportunity for benefit-eligible employees to enroll in a Flexible Spending Account for calendar year 2006 runs through Nov. 30. On Monday, Nov. 7, there will be two FSA information sessions. These sessions will be held at the University Union (bldg. 30), in the Oak Creek Room at 11 a.m. and noon. A representative from ASI, NAU's third-party administrator for FSA, will be presenting. For more information, click here.
Spring Welcome Weekend planning under way
Winter is weeks away, but it's already time to plan for spring. Spring Welcome Weekend is scheduled to begin Saturday, Jan. 14, when students can move into the residence halls. The Welcome Weekend Committee is planning events for Saturday, Sunday and Monday (Martin Luther King Day). If your organization is planning events that weekend, please contact David.Forgues@nau.edu so those events can be included in the publicity for the weekend.
NAU Theater produces serious slapstick with
'He Who Gets Slapped'
Slapstick takes center stage this month when NAU Theater performs Leonid Andreyev's 1915 Russian classic He Who Gets Slapped. This dark comedy is set in a flea-bitten circus with a host of original and chaotic characters that bring to life a complex arrangement of overlapping love triangles.
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Speaker to address the effects of modern consumerism on children
As part of the Phi Theta Kappa Honors Satellite Seminar series on pop culture, NAU's Honors Program is hosting "Born to Buy: Advertising and the New Consumer," presented by Juliet Schor, professor of sociology at Boston College and author of the national best sellers, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure and The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need. The seminar is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 8, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Liberal Arts, room 135.
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Museum showing work of
Louis Lozowick
The NAU Art Museum presents a retrospective of internationally renowned artist Louis Lozowick (1892 - 1973). An opening reception is planned for Friday, Nov. 4, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the NAU Art Museum in Old Main.
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NCA steering committee
appoints task forces
The NCA Self-Study Steering Committee has formed the five task forces that will work on the institutional self-study as it continues to prepare for the 2007 site visit by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The NCA visit is part of NAU's accreditation process, which occurs every ten years.
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Human Resources reminds employees to plan for winter holiday break schedule
Northern Arizona University will again be closed for the winter holiday break from Dec. 26 to Jan. 2. The official paid holidays are Dec. 26 and 27, 2005 and Jan. 2, 2006. NAU will be closed on Dec. 28-30; however, these are not paid holidays.
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Physically disabled student athletes eligible for trip
to 2006 paralympic games in Torino, Italy
The Center for High Altitude Training at Northern Arizona University is assisting U.S. Paralympics in distributing applications for the 2006 International Paralympic Academy. Applications are available at the center's headquarters in Lumberjack Stadium on the NAU campus.
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2006 Calendar Showcases Navajo Language
Northern Arizona University professor Evangeline Parsons Yazzie has been instrumental in producing the bilingual Navajo/English 2006 calendar. Knowing the importance of preserving the language of her elders, Dr. Parsons Yazzie translated all months, days of the week, holidays, and moon cycles in Navajo and English. Additionally, important Navajo dates, such as Treaty Day, are indicated.
PR Newswire (online) 10/26/2005
Woolly Mammoth's Childhood Revealed
Raising a mammoth wasn't an easy task and required huge quantities of mother's milk, according to a study of the nursing habits of a young woolly mammoth that died thousands of years ago. According to Larry Agenbroad, a leading mammoth expert at Northern Arizona University, the study "documents life and death of extinct proboscideans in a totally new, accurate methodology, allowing even more accurate comparisons with living elephants...Fisher and his team have extended our knowledge of mammoth-mastodon life histories, time of death and now nursing, to levels we previously could have never dreamed of," Agenbroad told Discovery News.
Discovery Channel (National TV) 10/25/2005
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