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Calendar \| Spotlight \| NAU in the News \| Archives \| Submit a News Tip	Vol. 3 No. 19 \| May 10, 2006

•	Parking changes prompt questions
•	NAU receives patent for technique that could stop TB in its tracks
•	Temporary traffic changes on tap for commencement
•	NAU opens new Tucson campus
•	Nearly $3 million awarded to science research and education
•	Fulbright award has professor seeing stars
•	Six employees win President's Achievement Awards
•	Sophomores give kudos to faculty and staff in recent survey
•	Welcome new hires
•	Kelly Golob earns NCAA postgraduate scholarship
•	Tools available to implement new visual identity
•	Hopi elder gets anthropology degree
•	Construction Management earns reaccreditation
•	Students put learning into action through NASA Space Grant Program
•	Bookstore announces interim hours
•	Advantage 3 upgrade on track
•	Graduates ready to teach Spanish
•	Visit to children's hospital opens eyes of NAU athletes
•	Time to two-wheel it to work
•	Spotlight
•	NAU in the News

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Here's a sampling of upcoming events at NAU. For a complete listing of campus events for the next two weeks, including times and locations of those items listed here, click on the links below:

Academic Calendar & Official Dates
•	May 12, 13: Commencement
•	May 15: Summer Sessions begins
•	May 19: NAU-Yuma commencement
Arts & Entertainment
•	May 11: Visual Communications majors showcase
Museums & Galleries
	Through May 30: Third Biennial National Print Exhibition
Student Life
•	May 11: Hispanic Convocation
•	May 11: Native American Convocation
Submit your NAU events online at events.nau.edu.

Around Flagstaff @ AZdailysun.com
•	May 14-19: Bike to Work Week

Set your alarm clocks a little early on Monday when NAU begins summer hours, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Summer hours traditionally have included casual attire. Department heads should work with their vice presidents and Human Resources if they want to establish different standards of dress and appearance for their respective areas.

Parking changes
prompt questions
Parking lot 1, across from the North Union, will close permanently this summer to make room for a hotel-conference center complex. Several changes are in the works to accommodate faculty, staff and students.

Questions have started coming in, and Inside NAU answers some today and will continue on a regular basis.

NAU receives patent for technique
that could stop TB
in its tracks
A Northern Arizona University team of scientists has received a patent for a technique that could help control the spread of tuberculosis, the second deadliest infectious disease among adults worldwide.

The team developed a new system for identifying different genetic strains of the TB-causing bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosum.

Temporary traffic changes on tap
for commencement
With thousands of graduates, families and guests attending commencement ceremonies at the Skydome on Friday and Saturday, some temporary traffic changes will go into effect.

NAU opens new Tucson campus
NAU has opened a stand-alone campus in northwest Tucson to better serve its growing population of students in southern Arizona.

Nearly $3 million awarded to science research and education
Northern Arizona University has received a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a multidisciplinary graduate training program called Integrative Biosciences: Genes to Environment.

Fulbright award has professor seeing stars
Kathy DeGioia Eastwood, professor of physics and astronomy, has achieved a stellar honor—a Fulbright lecturing and research award at the University of La Serena in Chile.

Six employees win President's Achievement Awards
Six Northern Arizona University employees have been selected for the 2006 President's Achievement Award.

Sophomores give kudos to faculty and staff
in recent survey
NAU sophomores praised 187 faculty or staff members for having positively influenced their experience at NAU, according to an annual online survey conducted by NAU's Planning, Budget and Institutional Research department.

Welcome new hires
Northern Arizona University welcomed 16 new employees during April. Take a moment to welcome these additions to the NAU family.

Kelly Golob earns NCAA postgraduate scholarship
Former men's basketball player Kelly Golob was awarded an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, becoming the first NAU student-athlete to earn the scholarship since former football player Jake Crissup was selected in 2000 and only the 11th recipient in school history.

Tools available to implement new visual identity
It has been more than a year since the university implemented its new visual identity, which has served to create consistency in the look and feel of NAU's printed and electronic communications.

The deadline for transitioning to the new logo was Aug. 1, and resources are available to assist departments in incorporating it into their print and electronic communications efforts.

Hopi elder gets anthropology degree
When Ferrell Secakuku was a boy growing up on the Hopi reservation, his elders encouraged him to get a modern education as a way to preserve his tribe's culture. Now Secakuku, 68, is graduating from Northern Arizona University with a master's degree in anthropology to do just that.

Construction Management
earns reaccreditation
NAU's Construction Management program has earned reaccreditation from the American Council for Construction Education.

Going for the Gold

LaVelle McCoy, President/CEO McCoy Motors, Inc. (right) recently met with Northern Arizona University's President John Haeger; Director for NAU's High Altitude Training Center Natalie Harlan and Executive Vice President M.J. McMahon (left) to donate a metallic gold 2006 GMC Savana van to the Center for High Altitude Training, an official U.S. Olympic Training site.

The eight-passenger van, identifiable by the U.S.A. five-ring Olympic logo and the new U.S. Olympic Partner logo, will be used for transporting visiting international teams to and from Phoenix and around Flagstaff, and for use with programs serving the local community as well as statewide outreach.

"LaVelle McCoy has been a supporter of NAU's Center for High Altitude Training since its inception in 1995," Harlan said. "This van is the most recent donation, in a long line of previous vans he has made available to the center."

The Center for High Altitude Training commits key resources to the development of American athletes and has hosted more than 4,500 athletes from 39 countries since 1994. Such athletes have won 191 Olympic and Paralympic Medals since 1996.

Students put learning into action
through NASA Space Grant Program
A dozen Northern Arizona University students put classroom learning into practice—complete with paid research internships and professional presentations—as part of the Arizona/NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Research Program.

Bookstore announces interim hours
The NAU Bookstore will be operating on interim hours—8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday—from May 15 to June 4. It will be closed for inventory May 19.

Advantage 3 upgrade on track
The university's Advantage Financial System upgrade project is on-track for its June 5 implementation for FY07 purchase orders and the July 3 go-live date.

Graduates ready to teach Spanish
The first five graduates to receive a master of arts in teaching Spanish from Northern Arizona University are ready to toss their caps in the celebratory air during commencement this Friday.

Visit to children's hospital opens eyes
of NAU athletes
NAU student-athletes visited the Phoenix Children's Hospital recently and found the experience "eye opening."

Time to two-wheel it to work
Get healthy while avoiding high gas prices and bike to NAU during Flagstaff's fifth annual Bike to Work Week, May 14 to 19.

Lizelda Durazo and Marla Tapia, undergraduate elementary education majors at NAU-Tucson, and Judi Moreillon, assistant clinical professor in the College of Education at NAU-Tucson
Richard Quartaroli, Cline Library special collections librarian

Site at I-10 and Prince Road meant to help meet demand for higher education
Tucson-area billboards urge locals to attend Northern Arizona University, saying that the Flagstaff air "makes you smarter." Now, NAU is opening a campus here. NAU-Tucson North is holding an open house today from 1 to 7 p.m. at the new campus, 3895 N. Business Center Drive, Suite 100. That is just west of Interstate 10 and north of Prince Road. "We know that the demands for access to higher education in Tucson are not being met, and we need to expand to serve the new students we're getting now," said Fred Hurst, NAU's vice president for extended programs.
Tucson Citizen, 5/1/2006

Profs fight classified research
A group of professors at Arizona State University wants to ban classified government research on its four campuses, claiming such projects exclude students from access to labs and prohibit the release of research results. Classified-research grants must be accompanied by high-level government security clearances that can run $30,000 to $50,000 per researcher, said Paul Keim, an anthrax researcher at Northern Arizona University. Support personnel and students involved in the research also must have the clearances. That's the primary reason NAU doesn't conduct classified research, said Keim. He has a security clearance that is paid by Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he does classified research, he said. He does non-classified anthrax research at NAU. Keim said he believes it's smart for universities to seek funding from the Defense Department because there is so much more money available than with other government-sponsored research.
The Arizona Republic (online), 5/1/2006

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