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Homecoming 2009 takes off:
F-16 flyover to start annual parade
NAU’s Homecoming 2009 begins next week, highlighted by the annual parade in downtown Flagstaff that will feature a flyover by F-16 fighter jets from the Air National Guard’s 162nd Wing Command out of Tucson.

  

NAU gears up for road closures
The traffic signs popping up along Butler Avenue and the NAU campus also are a sign of things to come.

NAU’s online courses help answer call for more speech pathologists
Northern Arizona University is streamlining the path to become a speech pathologist.

today's news

• Old Main getting nip, tuck   •

Sophisticated ‘Lucretia’ challenges
NAU Opera performers

 • Student, parent services reorganized

university news

• Voluntary retirement incentive
program explained
   
• Construction project to create 2,500 jobs, generate
$7.3 million in
tax revenue
   
• ABOR opposes
  further cuts to universities
   
• NAU-Yavapai signals new approach to
higher education
   
• State announces
  changes in dependent coverage
   
• Outreach pays off for diverse enrollment 
   
• Husband and wife named Homecoming dedicatees
   
• MBA program featured among ‘nation's best’
in Princeton Review
   
• NAU’s swine flu
  campaign in full swing

in the news

• NAU career fair offers 62 options
Arizona Daily Sun, 10/15/2009
   
• NAU project creates 2,500 jobs
KTAR-AM, 10/14/2009
   
• NAU project will create 2,500 jobs,
bring money to Flagstaff
KNXV-TV, 10/14/2009
   
• Prescott Valley hits historic
landmark with new library
Prescott eNews, 10/12/2009
   
More NAU news >

research & academic news

• Obesity and diabetes study weighs
influence of genetics, lifestyle
   
• Update on GPS Success
   
• Book brings need for turtle conservation out of hiding

events

• Slow Food NAU dishes up film festival
   
• Volleyball prepares for heated home matches against
  Eastern Washington and Portland State
   
• Athletic scholarships are big winners
during Axer Auction
   
• Events to promote disability awareness
 
• Indian films and music featured on campus

video

Located on south campus across from NAU's School of Forestry building, new recreational fields were recently built to meet the student body's request of more recreational space. The fields fill that order while becoming a lesson in sustainability.

department news

• Drug, alcohol information and policies online
   
• Temporary policy will allow advanced sick time to address H1N1

spotlight

Recognizing the activities and accomplishments of faculty, staff
and students

• The Parks and Recreation Management Program recently received another five years of accreditation from the National Recreation and Park Association
   
• The Gateway Student Success Center is featured in “The Handbook of Career Advising,” a new publication from the National Academic Advising Association, along with a chapter by Eileen Mahoney
   
• Sonya Daw and Mikhael Star presented “Laying the Foundations of Your Assessment Plan, the Benefits of Tortoise’s Path” at the National Academic Advising Association Annual Conference
   
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Robyn Slayton-Martin received the NAU Service Learning Award
   
• Marilya Veteto-Reese was awarded a Research Visit Grant to Germany
   
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Astrid Klocke published "Subverting Satire: Edgar Hilsenrath’s Novel Der Nazi und der Friseur and Charlie Chaplin’s Film The Great Dictator" in Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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