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Budweiser Clydesdales stampede onto campus
3 to 5 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 12, Walkup Skydome parking lot. Free.
The world famous Anheuser-Busch Clydesdales will stampede onto the NAU campus, giving the public a chance to visit with these gentle giants up close and personal. Then at 6 p.m., come inside the Skydome to watch the women's basketball team in its Big Sky Conference season-opener against Weber State.
New student orientation
All day, Friday, Jan. 13
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
Monday, Jan. 16
The university will be closed
Try Tai Chi with Patrick Martin, Chen-style instructor
5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 17, Agassiz Room, du Bois Conference Center. Free.
Check out Tai Chi for free with this practical overview. Wear loose, comfortable clothing. To register, call 523-7797 or e-mail Ask-EAW@nau.edu.
For these and other events visit events.nau.edu.
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New buildings open doors to NAU's future
Part of Northern Arizona University's vision of the future will come to fruition in a big way on Tuesday when two new buildings open for classes. The spectacular College of Business Administration building and the sophisticated Engineering building are changing the face of south campus.
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New VP of administration
to join NAU
The assistant vice president for Business and Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will join Northern Arizona University as the new vice president for Administration and Finance beginning March 13.
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Winter Session enrollment keeps growing
Enrollment in Northern Arizona University's 2005 Winter Session was up for the fourth consecutive year.
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Renowned author Diana Gabaldon featured in
NAU writing program
Northern Arizona University grad and bestselling author Diana Gabaldon will be featured at the first Writer-in-Residence program through NAU's College of Arts and Letters, Feb. 19-24.
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Dive into NAU's film series: The water's fine
Northern Arizona University's Department of Humanities, Arts, and Religion put some teeth in its spring movie series focus on water with Jaws, Moby Dick and other classics, including Bridge on the River Kwai and Chinatown.
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 Spam a lot: E-mail influx slows NAU system
A huge influx in spam and virus-containing e-mails since the beginning of the year has slowed Northern Arizona University's e-mail delivery system to a snail's pace. Information Technology Services has come up with a three-part plan that should have e-mail flowing at its normal rate within two weeks.
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Explore campus fitness facility at Tour de Rec
Don't let the name fool you; there's no special training required for the upcoming Tour de Rec. The half-hour event begins at 12:15 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, and offers faculty and staff a guided tour of the NAU Recreation Center to learn about its facilities and services, including group fitness classes, racquetball, volleyball and basketball courts, weight and aerobic rooms, saunas, personal training, massage therapy and self-improvement workshops.
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Arizona universities receive $10,000 alcohol awareness grant
The Arizona Institutions of Higher Education network, a consortium primarily of health services employees at each of the three state universities, was awarded $10,000 from the Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety to develop a campaign to reduce and prevent underage drinking and impaired driving among students attending Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University and the University of Arizona.
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Commission seeking nominations for achievement awards
The Commission on the Status of Women is seeking nominations for its Outstanding Achievement and Contribution Award.
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Multicultural Student Center cosponsors
sketch comedy at Theatrikos
Theatrikos Theatre Company is hosting the Arizona debut of Stir-Friday Night, a Chicago-based Asian-American sketch comedy and improvisational theatre troupe.
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Can we talk?
"Prairie dogs have a language. They talk, and they sometimes talk about us," says Con Slobodchikoff, a professor of biology at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. "Our studies are showing that prairie dogs have the most sophisticated natural animal language that has been decoded to date." He'll present his findings in a book to be published this year by Harvard University Press. The working title is "Prairie Dogs: Communication and Community in an Animal Society." Slobodchikoff conducted most of his research on the Gunnison's prairie dog species in the vicinity of Flagstaff.
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, AZ), 1/6/2006
Study: Salvage logging increases forest-fire threat
Both sides of the salvage logging debate have traditionally had little science to back up their claims. A new study has added some facts to the rhetorical fire. Wally Covington, a forest ecologist at Northern Arizona University, says its crucial to not make too much of the findings, in part because the study only covers a few years. He says it's possible that in ten years the salvaged areas will be much better off than the salvaged ones. Covington adds that the Oregon findings may not be applicable to forests in other regions. Covington hopes these results remind people of the fact that, as of now, salvage logging is more art than science. But he says that doesn't mean these logging operations should be stopped. He says that's a political decision, and not a scientific one.
"All Things Considered," National Public Radio (Washington, DC), 1/5/2006
Mother and son graduate on the same day at NAU
On college graduation day it's usually hard to tell who's prouder, the student or the parents. At Northern Arizona University's graduation ceremonies Dec. 16 in Flagstaff, the DeLeo family had two proud students graduating—and one of those students was the mother of the other. Cheri DeLeo of Mesa watched her son, Nicolas, graduate from NAU with a degree in business administration and finance in the morning, and then she graduated in the afternoon with a bachelor of science in elementary education earned at NAU's campus in Apache Junction.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 1/2/2006
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