Nancy Blitz, NAU-Yuma part-time faculty member and AWC full-time faculty member, participated in a panel presentation in Orlando, Fla., on July 13 at Secretary of Education Rod Paige's "No Child Left Behind Leadership Summit - Increasing Options through e-learning."

Olivia Zepeda, NAU-Yuma part-time faculty member and associate superintendent of the Gadsden, Ariz., school district, provided a school district perspective for the panel, and Jesus Taddei, a Bilingual, English as a Second Language Special Education, Training (or BEST) grant student and teacher in Gadsden, provided a K-12 classroom perspective. Success."

Pat Peterson, associate professor of Education, recently was honored at the Yuma County Teacher of the Year banquet because of the impact her grants are having on southwest Arizona. Peterson has secured grants totaling $2 million to date.

Sherri McCarthy, associate professor of educational psychology at NAU-Yuma, addressed the 2004 Interdisciplinary Conference on Russian-American Relations in Moscow on July 4. The conference, held at the Dobre campus of the Russian Academy of Social Research, was co-sponsored by the Kennan Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Institute of International Scholars, Washington, DC. Her address was: "Improving International Relations via Web-Based Instruction: Problems and Potential." It will be published (in Russian) in a book of the conference proceedings later this year.

Katy Shea, a master's in public health student at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health, has received a $1,500 Drachman Prevention Fund fellowship to support her internship, which focuses on two week-long camps - one for youths ages 8-10 and the second for youths ages 11-13. The camp, the Hualapai Youth Camp, Healthy Lifestyles, includes physical activities, health-related educational sessions, arts and crafts, and cultural activities and demonstrations. Established by the Arizona Board of Regents in 2000, the Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health is the first public health college in the four-corners states. The college promotes the health of Individuals and communities with a special emphasis on diverse populations and the Southwest.