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• Monica Gaylord, a graduate research assistant in the School of Forestry, was recently recognized as the 2007 Western Forest Insect Work Conference Graduate Scholarship winner, the highest award given to a graduate student studying forest entomology in the western United States, Canada and Mexico. Gaylord was recognized for her research on the mechanistic understanding of the impacts of thinning ponderosa pine on pine bark beetles.
• Gretchen Gee, an adjunct faculty member in political sciences, has been awarded a Fulbright Lecturing Award to Albania.
• "The Library of Congress Film Project: Film Collecting and a United State(s) of Mind" by Janna Jones, associate professor in the School of Communication, was published in the latest issue of The Moving Image, the journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists.
• Norman J. Medoff, professor in the School of Communication, has co-authored a new textbook for electronic media students and beginning professionals who shoot video outside the studio.
  
  The fifth edition of Portable Video: Electronic News Gathering and Electronic Field Production incorporates the many changes in technique and equipment that have occurred in the past five years, many of which are due to technological changes and the availability of new distribution channels for video media, such as webcasting, webstreaming, video iPods, and You Tube.
  
  The book's co-authors are Ed Fink of California State University in Fullerton, and Tom Tanquary, an award-winning videographer who shoots for NBC.
• Emilie L. Ozello, a biology and health professions major, recently scored in the 99th percentile on the chemistry section for the Pharmacy College Admissions Test, with a total score in the 96th percentile. Ozello is the club secretary for NAU's Pre-Pharmacy Club, an NAU Cardinal Key member and a resident assistant for McKay Village apartments.
• Jaime Smith, payment plan coordinator in the Bursar's office, and Bob Norton, assistant vice president in the Comptroller's Office, gave a presentation at the National Association of College and University Business Officers Student Financial Services Conference in San Diego on March 5. The presentation focused on how the university no longer cancels student enrollments for outstanding balances, and how this major change in policy and process was communicated, programmed and implemented.