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November 5, 2009

NAU inspires worldwide
audience to build green
What do Al Gore, Sheryl Crow and Northern Arizona University have in common? They will be featured at Greenbuild 2009, the world’s largest green building conference and expo convening in Phoenix Nov. 11 through 13.

The conference, hosted by the United States Green Building Council, attracts up to 30,000 building professionals from around the world to engage in sustainable building educational sessions, seminars, networking events and green building tours.

today's news

•	Donate your winter clothes in the Classified Staff Advisory Council's seventh annual clothing drive through Nov. 18	•	Football takes on Ole Miss; Game available on CSS, ESPN Game Plan, ESPN360.com

•	Obituary: James Frank Jaramillo, custodian	•	In observance of Veterans Day, NAU will be closed Wednesday, Nov. 11.

university news

•	President unveils details of Innovation Fund

•	Haeger balances ‘unbalanced’ newspaper article

•	Stay tuned when snow starts to fall

•	‘Green’ buses picking up speed

•	Photo Gallery: Health and Learning

Center groundbreaking

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Campus traffic patterns
to change temporarily

department news

•	ITS invites participation in online Educause conference sessions

events

•	Native American Heritage Month kicks off on campus

•	Emeritus professor's art exhibit pays homage to the heavens

•	Applied Indigenous Studies announces lecture series

research & academic news

•	Mutating rabies virus puts extra scare in bat researchers

•	NAU’s online courses help answer call for more speech pathologists


•	Obesity and diabetes study weighs influence of genetics, lifestyle

making a difference

Digging up the past
Last February site stewards Richard Rogers, professor of speech communication, along with NAU alum Christine Stephenson, retired NAU professor Bern Carey, and Museum of Northern Arizona archaeologist Dave Wilcox discovered two exposed, intact pots on Forest Service land near Wupatki National Monument. They are now on display at the Wupatki visitor’s center. Read more.

spotlight

Recognizing the activities and accomplishments of faculty, staff
and students

•	Brant Short received a research grant from the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication

•	An image by Laura Camden was selected in the ninth annual juried photography exhibit, “High and Dry: People and Places of the World’s Dry Lands"

•	Peter Friederici is the 2009 recipient of the Copper Quill Award

•	Jon Reyhner gave the keynote address at the Native American Preservation Summit

•	Chris Gunn, along with Barry Schreier from the University of Connecticut, presented "Gender Queer on Campus: Working with Transgender Students"

•	The Capacity Building for American Indians Project within the Institute for Human Development, along with collaborators, provided grant writing workshops and trainings to 25 American Indian tribes from across the country

•	Willard Sakiestewa Gilbert is in Turkey participating in a Native American Lecture Tour

in the news

•	Green-building advocates coming to Phoenix 11/6/2009, Arizona Republic,

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