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Media highlights for the week of April 11-18, 2005
A sampling of NAU programs, professors, students, staff and alumni appearing in the news
NAU chem majors tackle tattoo ink
Tattoos, tattoos everywhere, but what is in that ink? A conversation on this very topic prompted two NAU undergraduate chemistry majors to begin their own research into the chemical components of tattoo ink.
—Arizona Daily Sun, 4/11/2005
Big boxes in Flag: The retail pie for all gets bigger
Professor Ronald Gunderson, area coordinator for economics in the College of Business Administration at NAU, likens the effect of a big-box retailer to that of a magnet. "I'm not so sure it can cause those of us who already live here to buy more," Gunderson said. "But it does increase the ability to attract more shoppers from outside the community."
—Arizona Daily Sun, 4/12/2005
Arizona's tech game plan
Northern Arizona University's national research effort on wind energy is helping position the state as a center of a worldwide market for sustainable-system technologies.
—The Arizona Republic, 4/12/2005
Poll: Majority of Arizonans feel immigration bad for country
According to the poll by NAU's Social Research Laboratory, a majority of Arizonans say that immigration in recent years has been bad for the United States.
—The Arizona Republic, 4/12/2005
NAU economist says high oil prices dampen state, national economic picture
Soaring gasoline and crude oil prices threaten regional and national economies and are forcing businesses to impose extra fees and hike prices to keep up with the gas pains. "It has the potential to do a fair amount of damage because the impacts are extended across so many industries," said NAU economist Ron Gunderson. Gunderson said in addition to the obvious vulnerability of sectors such as airlines and trucking, high fuel costs also negatively impact tourism via less discretionary spending and car trips, and construction in which many raw materials contain petroleum-based products and need to be transported to development sites.
—MSNBC, 4/12/2005
Legislators listen to student lobby
About 30 students from ASU and NAU convened at the state Capitol on Monday for the Arizona Students Association and ASU Undergraduate Student Government's Student Lobby Day. Anna Belanger, a geology senior at NAU, said she came to the Capitol to learn more about the challenges facing legislators as they make decisions about how to fund the universities. Students can ask for more money, but "it's just not that easy," she said.
— State Press, Arizona State University, 4/12/2005
Natural talent
NAU freshman and Big Sky Conference first-teamer, Sophia Choi, was 10 when she picked up her first golf bag. Fast forward through eight years of junior golf, then one more in NAU colors, and Choi has etched her name onto the short list of the top female collegiate duffers in the West.
—Arizona Daily Sun, 4/13/2005
Northern ranches to be preserved
Grand Canyon Trust will take over management of 850,000 acres in the Arizona Strip for conservation and ranching. Once the sale is complete, scientists from Georgia, Utah, Colorado and NAU will analyze how best to rehabilitate the land.
—Arizona Daily Sun, 4/13/2005
Prop. 100 too close to call
A survey conducted earlier this month by NAU's Social Research Laboratory found that 50 percent of likely voters will vote yes for Prop. 100, 40 percent no and 10 percent are undecided.
—Arizona Daily Sun, 4/13/2005
Yard sale fund-raiser for PR students Thursday
NAU's Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) will host a fund-raising yard sale Thursday on the NAU campus. Money raised will be used to help PRSSA members attend the 2005 regional conference at California State University Fullerton.
—Arizona Daily Sun, 4/13/2005
Tattoos and Heavy Metal: Together Forever
Noting the growth in popularity of tattoos, a group of undergraduate chemistry students at NAU recently conducted a study of several brands and colors of tattoo ink. The researchers discovered the presence of potentially harmful heavy metals in the inks, spurring extensive media coverage.
—Daily Californian, 4/13/2005
Universities cut cost of student health insurance
Representatives from the health centers at ASU, UA and NAU put together a new plan that would lower the rate of student health insurance by 8.2 percent.
—State Press, Arizona State University, 4/14/2005
Community Briefs
The NAU Kiddie Clinic will help with children's dental needs throughout the community by enlisting dental students and volunteer dentists and dental hygienists to screen and treat children for greatly reduced fees; The Northern Arizona Diving Club (coached by NAU diving coach Nikki Kelsey-Huffman) is hosting the Diving in the Pines Invitational Saturday and Sunday at NAU's Wall Aquatic Center.
—Arizona Daily Sun, 4/15/2005
Few radical changes, quibbles of universities redesign plan
"The fact that we're not making any radical changes, with all the feedback we've gotten around the state and in stakeholder groups, says that we're going in the right direction," said Nick Lund, executive director of NAU-Yuma.
—The Arizona Republic, 4/15/2005
NAU professor favors bridge to save mountain lions
"The mountain lions are telling us that that is the place where they want to cross." - Paul Beier, Northern Arizona University professor of conservation biology and wildlife ecology, and co-author of a plan to create a wildlife bridge over Interstate 15 near the San Diego County line. At least four cougars died trying to cross between the Santa Margarita River and U.S. Border Patrol station in the early 1990s, Beier said.
—North County Times, 4/15/2005
Jacks football team take positive steps in Spring workouts
Assessing his team's play Tuesday, a week after spring ball began, NAU football coach Jerome Souers said he likes the direction his team is headed in.
—Arizona Daily Sun, 4/16/2005
Earth Stewardship Day features NAU program director
The New Hampshire District United Methodists will host an "Earth Stewardship Day," featuring Max Oelschlaeger, the F.B. McAllister Endowed chair and director of the Program in Community, Culture and Environment at Northern Arizona University.
—Laconia Citizen, Laconia, NH, USA, 4/16/2005
Hands-on, off-campus: Field trips turn focus to educational value
The Deer Valley district recently approved a trip for high-schoolers to attend a NASA balloon satellite launch in Maricopa on the weekend of April 30. The students are part of a physics team interested in space science, and costs have been covered by NASA and Northern Arizona University.
—The Arizona Republic, 4/18/2005
It's decision time for valley's seniors
Kurt Karstens is another senior who didn't want to move too far from home. He was glad to receive a full scholarship to play football at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.
—The Desert Sun, 4/18/2005
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