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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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Motivated high school students
to attend NAU on scholarship
Eight of 23 Arizona high school students who will receive a four-year scholarship to attend one of the state universities are headed to NAU.
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The Inn offers charming
patio dining
Take a bite out of the summer doldrums with a meal from the Inn at NAU.
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Parking registration begins; more questions arrive
Online registration for the 2006-07 parking permits has begun. Anyone registering by July 31 can have permits mailed to their home. Go to www.nau.edu/parking.
Send parking questions—or other questions—to Inside@nau.edu. FAQs will not run June 14 but will return June 21.
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Orientation
in full swing
The annual swarm of new students and their families attending one of Northern Arizona University's orientation sessions has kept the campus buzzing with activity this summer.
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Former Lumberjacks
part of
diplomatic sports tour
Former Lumberjack standouts Kelly Golob and Kyle Feuerbach will participate in a nine-game basketball exhibition tour of China over the next 12 days.
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Flagstaff's festive Fourth wants you
Celebrate Flagstaff's Independence Day festivities this year by marching in the Fourth of July parade with NAU.
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High school graduation
set for Friday
High school graduation ceremonies on Friday may cause some traffic congestion around the Skydome.
Sinagua High School is scheduled for 9 a.m., Coconino High at 2 p.m. and Flagstaff High at 7 p.m. Each ceremony is expected to last about 2 1/2 hours.
NAU research finds new risks from uranium
Research under way at Northern Arizona University could make it safer to mine and handle uranium in Arizona and around the world. A project led by NAU biochemist Diane Stearns has found that uranium's heavy-metal properties can make people sick, independently of the element's radiation and radon gas. The findings have far-reaching implications for people living near abandoned uranium mines in the Southwest and for the military, which uses depleted, or "non-radioactive," uranium for anti-tank weapons, tank armor and ammunition rounds.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 6/1/2006
Pumped-up Poison Ivy: Carbon dioxide boosts plant's size, toxicity
Whatever troubles climate change might bring to the world's other species, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could be the best thing yet for poison ivy. "It's a sobering example that rising carbon dioxide can favor pests and weeds, those plants we'd least like to see succeed," comments climate-change ecologist Bruce Hungate of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.
Science News (online), 6/2/2006
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