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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:
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Smiles all around
at spring commencement
NAU sent more than 2,600 graduates on their way to a new beginning May 12 and 13 during spring 2006 commencement ceremonies.
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More than 300 to receive diplomas
at NAU-Yuma ceremony
Rene F. Pack will stand tall on the platform when she delivers her commencement address at NAU-Yuma on Friday.
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Answers to your parking questions
The upcoming changes to NAU's parking situation, beginning when parking lot 1 is closed to build the conference center complex, continues to generate questions. If you have a query, e-mail Inside@nau.edu.
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E-learning brings value to students in more ways than one
The words pods, blogs and wikis may sound like a foreign language. But they're actually influential technologies that are helping some Northern Arizona University students get the most from their learning experience.
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Women's track and field brings home 'triple crown' with third title of season
NAU women's track and field won the Big Sky outdoor championship title on Saturday, capturing its third-straight title for the Lumberjacks, who also won the Big Sky indoor championship and cross country championship during the 2005-06 school year.
The win marks the first time in NAU history the women's track and field won the 'triple crown' by capturing all three titles in a season. It was also the third year in a row the women's squad won the outdoor championship.
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It's more than s'mores at forestry camp
The School of Forestry's Centennial Forest summer programs are branching out. The public camp offerings now include an Outdoor Leadership Academy and a Forestry Family Camp weekend in addition to the junior and senior forester academies.
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A banner day for NAU
and Yavapai College
Northern Arizona University and Yavapai College in Prescott celebrated a growing partnership with a reception and ribbon-cutting to unveil a new banner announcing "Yavapai College + Northern Arizona University: Your community just got bigger." Revealing the banner are (from left) Ernest Calderón of the Arizona Board of Regents, NAU President John Haeger and Jim Horton, president of Yavapai College. Horton said of the partnership: "If you're looking for a university that reached out to rural Arizona long before it became fashionable, it's Northern Arizona University." NAU will physically locate in a building on the Yavapai College campus in the fall. |
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International name change
The International Office has changed its name to the NAU Center for International Education.
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NAU switching antivirus software
Sophos antivirus software has been selected to protect NAU computers for the next five years. NAU enterprise versions of McAfee software are no longer authorized to be updated on June 30.
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Property Surplus liquidating inventory
It's a bargain hunter's paradise when NAU's Property Surplus hosts its first-ever inventory liquation sale, 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday, May 20. Shoppers will find deals on used computers, monitors, printers, copiers, scanners, desks, file cabinets, chairs, paint, bicycles, furniture and more.
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Hospitable publishing record ranks high
The School of Hotel and Restaurant Management recently ranked ninth in the world for its faculty publishing record in refereed hospitality and tourism journals.
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George Francis Russel Stonier-Hamnett,
former KNAU manager, dies at 68
George Francis Russel Stonier-Hamnett, 68, station manager at KNAU from 1983 to 1996, died May 11, 2006, in Naples, Fla.
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NAU graduate wins national ROTC academic honor
Jonathan Ketchum didn't get an allowance growing up in the West Valley. If he wanted extra money, he had to plow the garden or lay stone. That taught the Northern Arizona University student much discipline, a trait that recently helped him earn distinction as one of the nation's top Air Force graduating cadets. Col. Robert Lundie couldn't think of anyone more deserving than Ketchum to receive the Maj. Gen. Robert E. Sadler Award for outstanding academic performance in communications or electrical engineering to a student enrolled in Air Force or Navy ROTC. Ketchum is the first NAU student to receive this award, Lundie said. "I've known him for 3½ years here. He's just been a superb cadet," Lundie said. Ketchum humbly admitted that he didn't even know the award existed until the day he received it.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 5/12/2006
Tests being used to show if ASU, NAU are doing job
The testing trend that has gripped K-12 schools in recent years is spilling into the college ranks. The goal, in this case, is not to require students to pass an exit exam to graduate, or to threaten universities with state intervention if they're not performing to standards. Instead, the purpose of the test, expected to be recommended Aug. 1 by a federal commission on higher education, is to measure how well universities are educating their students. The results could be released to the public, allowing students and parents to see if they're getting what they pay for. The push is being driven, in part, by critics of higher education. Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University already are giving the tests. "We want to see what the effect of an NAU education has had on them. We want to see how they've grown," said Karen Pugliesi, NAU's vice provost for undergraduate studies. If schools chose to be transparent and release their scores, students and parents could compare schools on how well they teach their students. Pugliesi said the test enables educators to "disentangle the combination of characteristics they come to us with, and the growth and learning they did when they got here."
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 5/9/2006
Dolphins 'know each other's names'
DOLPHINS may be closer to humans than previously realised, with new research showing they communicate by whistling out their own "names". The evidence suggests dolphins share the human ability to recognise themselves and other members of the same species as individuals with separate identities. The research, on wild bottlenose dolphins, will lead to a reassessment of their intelligence and social complexity, raising moral questions over how they should be treated. Even some rodent species may have developed a rudimentary language. Con Slobodchikoff of Northern Arizona University recently found that prairie dogs, a large rodent found in the western United States, shared a language of at least 100 words.
The Sunday Times (London), 5/7/2006
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