Campus & Community
NAU, San Carlos Apache College ink partnership aimed at furthering educational opportunities for Indigenous students
The partnership, which is the second of its kind that NAU has signed, will will strengthen collaborative opportunities at all levels between the two institutions, including for academic programming, faculty collaboration, student success initiatives and transfer and graduate education pathways. Humans of NAU
Humans of NAU: Yifan Pi
Worldwide, men make up just 6% of the pre-kindergarten teaching workforce—and that percentage is even lower in China, NAU student Yifan Pi’s native country. An early childhood education major at Shanghai Normal University Tianhua College, Pi seized the opportunity to spend his junior year at NAU, where he took classes at the College of Education and gained hands-on experience teaching alongside Stephen Riek at Flagstaff Cooperative Preschool. The aspiring teacher shared details from his time working and learning Flagstaff and revealed why he loves working with young children. Campus & Community
For Earth Month, be USEFULL!
NAU has implemented a new program to reduce the waste of single-use containers on campus. The USEFULL program, currently being implemented at three campus dining locations, uses reusable stainless steel food containers that are digitally tracked via a phone app, allowing the university to save around 25,000 pounds of single-use plastics from entering the landfill. This USEFULL video explains the program. MORE NEWS Research & Academics
The where, why and how of water in space
Laura Lee, a Ph.D. student in astronomy and planetary science, is one of three graduate students to be selected for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program, a prestigious funding opportunity that supports students in STEM fields. Using a variety of techniques with instruments on Earth and in space, Lee is mapping water in the Solar System to better understand how and where this critical element is located on other celestial bodies. In addition to her groundbreaking research, Lee’s career goals include community education and promoting opportunities for women, people of color and first-generation students in planetary science. Mission to Mars: what a student-designed, student-built camera can teach us about the red planet
A camera built by NAU students will be included on a mission to Mars this fall. VISIONS is designed to capture both the visible and infrared spectrums simultaneously and to include an entire planet in a single frame—features that will allow it to better capture data about Mars' surface composition and climate. The camera, which was built using largely commercial grade components instead of custom parts, will serve as a technical demonstration that a low-budget camera relying on commercial components is suitable for missions of this caliber. How an athletic trainer found his passion on the pitch
Master's student Enrique De La Cruz has always loved soccer, but he didn't think his future was on the field. Instead, he found it on the sidelines as an athletic trainer for Phoenix Rising. Learn how his experiences as a player and his education at NAU prepared him for the job. Campus & Community
NAU to recognize four Arizona leaders with honorary doctorate degrees during commencement ceremonies
Paul Luna, president and CEO of Helios Education Foundation, Pam Kehaly, president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, Christy Farley, an NAU alumna who recently retired as senior vice president of engagement and public affairs, and Efrain Casillas, coordinator of music programs at Tolleson Elementary School District and 2024 Arizona Teacher of the Year, will be recognized with honorary doctorates from Northern Arizona University and provide the keynote address during four commencement ceremonies taking place May 10-11. For Earth Month, be USEFULL!
NAU has implemented a new program to reduce the waste of single-use containers on campus. The USEFULL program, currently being implemented at three campus dining locations, uses reusable stainless steel food containers that are digitally tracked via a phone app, allowing the university to save around 25,000 pounds of single-use plastics from entering the landfill. This USEFULL video explains the program. NAU, San Carlos Apache College ink partnership aimed at furthering educational opportunities for Indigenous students
The partnership, which is the second of its kind that NAU has signed, will will strengthen collaborative opportunities at all levels between the two institutions, including for academic programming, faculty collaboration, student success initiatives and transfer and graduate education pathways. Lumberjack Features
Humans of NAU: Marcy Hurtado
Marcy Hurtado found her professional home at NAU Yuma, where she is the director of enrollment management. She talks about the joy of seeing students in the YES program move from high school to college, her goal of graduating with her doctorate and how each day is different. Making connections on a field trip to the U.S./Mexico border
Students from Leah Mundell’s anthropology course, Global Migration and Human Rights, had their perspectives changed on a field trip to the U.S./Mexico border. Eileen Magaña reflects on the experiences she and three of her classmates—Erik Martinez, Owen Stark and Calvin Humphrey—had during their visits to Border Patrol, a community center in Nogales that aids border crossers, a humanitarian aid organization in Ajo that makes water drops and their conversation with a human rights activist and pastor from the Tohono O’odham Nation. Humans of NAU: Yifan Pi
Worldwide, men make up just 6% of the pre-kindergarten teaching workforce—and that percentage is even lower in China, NAU student Yifan Pi’s native country. An early childhood education major at Shanghai Normal University Tianhua College, Pi seized the opportunity to spend his junior year at NAU, where he took classes at the College of Education and gained hands-on experience teaching alongside Stephen Riek at Flagstaff Cooperative Preschool. The aspiring teacher shared details from his time working and learning Flagstaff and revealed why he loves working with young children.