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Media highlights for the week of Oct. 15-21, 2005
A sampling of NAU programs, professors, students, staff and alumni appearing in the news
Cleaning up and helping out makes a difference
Volunteers across the country will spend the day caring for their communities. A numer of groups are partnering to make it easier to participate in National Make A Difference Day, including NAU's ASNAU 'The Big Event' and Youth in Action AmeriCorps Project.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 10/21/2005
Gospel festival at NAU
To hear the sweets sounds of the second African American Gospel Festival all you need to do is bring a non-perishable food item, which will be donated to the Flagstaff Family Food Center, for admission. The festival, co-sponsored by the Coconino County African American Advisory Council and the NAU Black Student Union, will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Ashurst Auditorium on the NAU campus.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 10/21/2005
He's a cultural bridge
Living a long life is respected in many Native American communities. [NAU's] Applied Indigenous Studies program is no different. At the program, long life experience is cherished in the form of resident elders. Bob Lomadafkie, a Hopi, is one of two resident elders. He tries to establish communication with the Indian students because there are social issues he may be able to help with. "There are a lot of components in the (university's) communities. We want to help (students) feel comfortable without compromising where they come from. That's another thing, is not to give up your identity," he said. NAU is only one of two universities in North America that has resident elders as part of its academic staff.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 10/21/2005
Magpies plan to scale new heights
A party of 45 players and staff will fly to Arizona in the US for a two-week training camp at the Centre for High Altitude Training, 2100m above sea level. The party will be based at Northern Arizona University near the town of Flagstaff. It has hosted athletes from 39 countries, including the Australian swimming team.
Herald Sun (online), 10/21/2005
New center aimed at biosecurity of water to be unveiled Monday
Michigan State University will announce a major national center using a $10 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to keep water safe from biological attacks. Partners include the University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University, Drexel University, the University of California-Berkeley, Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona.
MSU Today (East Lansing, MI), 10/21/2005
Peters expected to enter governor's race, Pearce ponders options
A new poll by Northern Arizona University shows the governor with a 70 percent approval rating compared to 48 percent for President Bush. That fact that Napolitano is under 50 percent in the NAU poll and the previous Zogby/Wall Street Journal polls boosts GOP optimism. The NAU poll also showed immigration and border security to be the top issue of among state voters.
The Business Journal Phoenix (Phoenix, AZ), 10/21/2005
[this clip also appeared in numerous other state business journals]
Speaker series starts
The changing landscape of higher education is a hot topic for colleges and universities nationwide. The issues are complex -- from new technologies to changing demographics -- and have significant implications for the future of higher education. 'We can't sit idly by and watch these changes occurring without considering what's at stake for this university, or higher education as a whole, for that matter,' said NAU President John Haeger, who has invited several leaders in higher education to participate in his first-ever President's Speakers Series. Laura Palmer Noone, president of the University of Phoenix, will kick off the series on Monday, Oct. 24, at 3 30 p.m. at NAU's Ashurst Auditorium.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 10/21/2005
Wilting under the heat: Global warming blamed for deaths of trees in area
Drought and increasing temperatures—conditions of global warming—may have killed millions of piñon pines in the Four Corners, a scientific consortium reported last week. The scientific consortium had members from Colorado State University, Northern Arizona University, the University of New Mexico, the University of Kansas, Prescott College and the U.S. Geological Survey in Moab, Utah, and Los Alamos, N.M. The National Science Foundation, the Forest Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA, the National Institutes of Health and Los Alamos National Laboratory funded the research.
The Durango Herald (Durango, CO), 10/21/2005
Desert Whispers
A new poll from Northern Arizona University shows that 34 percent of Arizonans singled out border and immigration issues as the top concern for the state today.
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, AZ), 10/20/2005
KNAU wins national broadcasting award
KNAU-Arizona Public Radio was honored Monday in New York with its first national Edward R. Murrow Award by the Radio-TV News Directors Association. KNAU's story "Trouble at the Grand Canyon" received the award for investigative reporting by a small market radio station. KNAU's story was selected from a field of finalists from the association's 14 regions. Earlier this year, the Flagstaff station swept the Region 3 Murrow Awards for small-market radio, winning accolades in the Continuing Coverage, Feature Reporting, News Series, Sports Reporting, Use of Sound, and Writing categories, in addition to Investigative Reporting.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 10/19/2005
Mannequins at Northern Arizona University
Students get to practice on advanced high-fidelity mannequins from Northern Arizona University. The mannequins—along with other simulati technology—give students virtual and hands-on experience to help them become better health professionals. The technologies that these mannequins bring is so real that our nursing students really sometimes forget whether they're taking care of a real patient or somebody who's not real at all and they can do that without killing anybody…
KGUN-TV 9 News (Tucson, AZ), 10/19/2005
MTVu Announces Sudan 'Serious Game', Gamer's Ball Tour
MTVu, the North American university-specific cable channel which broadcasts to over 700 campuses and over 6 million students across the country, has announced two game-related projects that showcase the growing importance of video games to college students. The tour starts at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ on October 19, before visiting a number of campuses nationwide, and additional dates, times, and details are available on the official Gamer's Ball webpage.
Gamasutra (San Francisco, CA), 10/19/2005
Heat Kills
A triple combination of heat, drought and lowered resistance against bark beetles are working together to cause a massive die off of pinyon pine trees throughout the Southwest. The New Mexico woodlands were the focus of an extensive joint-study by researchers from Northern Arizona University and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The researchers believe global warming may be responsible for the higher temperatures and droughts.
LiveScience.com (New York, NY), 10/17/2005
Business People
James Hill has been appointed vice president of advancement at Daniel Webster College. Hill started Oct. 11. Prior to ERAU, Hill culminated a career at Northern Arizona University as interim vice president, university advancement and executive director of NAU Foundation, where he more than doubled the university's income from annual gifts and raised $106 million toward a $100 million goal in the first five years of a seven year campaign.
The Telegraph (Hudson, NH), 10/16/2005
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