Red, white and lots of NAU blue
NAU made a strong showing at the annual Independence Day Parade in downtown Flagstaff last week.

Rural Policy Forum to explore critical issues
Experts and policy makers will discuss affordable housing, recruiting and retaining health care professionals and workforce development.

Welcome new hires
Northern Arizona University welcomed 30 new employees in June.

Cline librarian Martha Jean Portree dies at 40; memorial planned
Martha Jean Portree, a reference services librarian at Cline Library, died July 7. She was 40.

Share your summer photos
All summer long, Inside NAU will share your summer photos with our readers.

ITS upgrading e-mail system
An upgrade to NAU's e-mail system during late July and August could mean that e-mail services may be unavailable for about 24 hours.

Student peddles from Mexico to Canada to raise scholarship funds
A parks and recreation management junior is peddling his bicycle from Mexico to Canada to raise money for the Dustin and Kristen Yoder Memorial Foundation.

SPOTLIGHT: Kudos to these faculty, staff and students for their recent accomplishments:

• Jim Wilce, professor of anthropology
• Steve Hemphill, professor of percussion
• Jamie Timmerman, NAU doctoral student in educational psychology, and Greg Prater, professor of educational specialties
• Dennis Tanner, professor of health sciences
• Mary I. Dereshiwsky, associate professor of educational leadership
• Tim Smith, professor in the School of Music
• NAU's Office of Public Affairs

Lost Boy becomes American citizen
WSYR-TV (Syracuse, NY), 7/7/2007

A trip to China could be mayor's entrance
into graduate studies
Arizona Daily Sun, 7/4/2007