Be true to your school: Gear up for blue Fridays
One true blue community—Flagstaff and Northern Arizona University.

Hello, yellow: Flagstaff school district leases buses to NAU
You may have seen some yellow school buses driving on campus with older-than-usual riders.

FSN to air NAU-ASU football game
Fox Sports Network Arizona has announced it will televise the NAU-Arizona State football game with a new kickoff time of 7:20 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30, at Sun Devil Stadium.

Welcome back, Jacks
Around 2,500 students, faculty and staff turned out for yesterday's Welcome Back BBQ.

High Altitude athletes mine for medal in Beijing
Athletes representing eight nations won 22 Olympic medals after training at NAU's Center for High Altitude Training.

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

• Julie Gess-Newsome, director for the Center for Science Teaching and Learning
• Eric Yordy, interim associate dean of The W.A. Franke College of Business
• Spanish professor Bob Neustadt
• Rodrigo De Toledo, an assistant professor in the School of Communication
• J. Judson Wynne, doctoral student in biology and cave research scientist

Professor puts digital media on convention menu
Armed with what he calls the tools of the digital journalists of the future, Kurt Lancaster, NAU's assistant professor of digital media, is reporting from the Democratic National Convention for the Christian Science Monitor.

Navajo professor writes textbook
to help save her Native language
For 18 years, Evangeline Parsons Yazzie taught Navajo without a textbook she felt represented both the indigenous language and its culture, until she decided to write her own.

New art exhibit combines 'all things digital'
A new exhibit coming to Northern Arizona University will highlight a multimedia fusion of installation, sound, video and experimental illustration.

Move-in day
Students and their families took the campus by storm last week as they settled in for the new academic year.

Under the China sun: NAU fan totally eclipses
rival supporters
Julie Gess-Newsome, director for the Center for Science Teaching and Learning, joined her eclipse-chasing sister and brother-in-law in China, where they caught the center line of the solar eclipse last month.

A passion for 'Murderball'
The Arizona Daily Sun, 8/23/2008

NAU launches new year on another high note
The Arizona Daily Sun, 8/22/2008

Record class of NAU freshmen checks in
The Arizona Daily Sun, 8/22/2008