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• Cathy Small, anthropology professor, served as the keynote speaker at the opening ceremonies of the 2007 Phi Kappa Phi National Triennial Convention in Orlando, Fla., last month. Small discussed her book, My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, and the changing face of college communities. She detailed her experiences that began in 2002 when she went from professor to freshman at NAU in an effort to better understand her students.
• The Arizona Rural Schools Association inducted Patty J. Horn, professor in the College of Education and director of the Teacher Induction program at Northern Arizona University, into its Hall of Fame on Sept. 15 in Prescott. Horn has been an educator in the state for 40 years and continues to bring innovative programs to Arizona K-12 districts.

  'Apache Cowboys' © Sam Minkler

• Sam Minkler, associate professor of photography in the School of Communication, won third place from the Southwestern Association for Indian Artists in the photography category for his image Apache Cowboys.
• The fall 2006 issue of PINE magazine won a gold Ozzie award from FOLIO magazine for its table of contents. The magazine was produced by NAU's Office of Alumni Relations and McMurry marketing communications firm in Phoenix. The award recognizes excellence in design.
• Research findings by a host of NAU geoscientists will be presented at the 119th meeting of the Geological Society of America on Oct. 27-31 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. Various researchers worked on the papers:
  • Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Center for Environmental Sciences and Education, "A High-Resolution, 225 KYR Record of Orbital and Millennial Scale Vegetation and Climate from Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho (USA)"
  • Jordon Bright, geology, "Ostracode Faunal and Initial Stable Isotope (O and C) Analysis of a 45-M-Long Core from Manix Basin, California"; and "Ostracodes and Fossil Groundwater Discharge Deposits in the American Southwest"
  • Megan L. Green, geology, "Conceptual and Numerical Ground-Water Flow Modeling for Travertine-Depositing Fossil Springs, West Mogollon Mesa, Arizona"
  • Thomas D. Hoisch, geology, "Thermod8: A User-Friendly program for Two-Dimensional Finite Difference Thermal Modeling"
  • Lisa A. Skinner, geology, "Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, ORPI: Aspects of a Digital, Regional Geologic Map Compilation for the National Park Service Geologic Resource Evaluation Program"
  • Mark F. Manone, Geospatial Research and Information Lab, "An Incremental Approach for Teaching Field Mapping Using Rugged Tablet Computers and GIS"
  • M.D. Jackson, history, "Altered Volcanic Ash as Fine Aggregate (Harenae Fossiciae) in the Pozzolanic Mortars of Ancient Concretes, Rome, Italy"