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Media highlights for the week of July 12-July 18, 2005
A sampling of NAU programs, professors, students, staff and alumni appearing in the news
Ailing pet led woman to pursue veterinary career
When Sarah Derksen was 11, her pet basset hound came down with Valley Fever. She would go to the vet with him every chance she had. Unfortunately her pet did not recover from the illness and so she decided some day she wanted to be able to do something to save other people's pets. And she has always loved animals. Now she is sharing that love with Payson area pets, working at Payson Pet Care Veterinary Clinic. She studied zoology at Northern Arizona University, then earned her doctorate in veterinary medicine from Colorado State University.
— Worldwest Ltd., Liability Co. (Payson, AZ), 7/18/2005
Business notes
Northern Arizona University is one of eight new members selected to be part of the National Council for Minorities In Engineering Scholars Program. As a result, NAU will receive scholarship funds of $225,000 payable at $45,000 a year for five years. Council President and Chief Executive John Brooks Slaughter said he hopes the scholarship fund will help NAU support an additional 10 minority engineering students beginning in the 2005-06 academic year. About 12 percent of NAU's engineering students are Native American, 7 percent are Latino and 1 percent are black.
— Business Journal of Phoenix (Phoenix, AZ), 7/18/2005
Hilda Dushek
Hilda Binder Dushek, 85, died Friday, July 15, 2005, in Flagstaff after a battle with heart disease. She was a retired bookkeeper at the bookstore at NAU, where she worked for 26 years. Mrs. Dushek was also the 1967 NAU Homecoming dedicatee.
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/18/2005
Internships: Getting a foot in the door
Area interns say the possibility of landing a full-time job someday is just part of what their internships have been about. Ben Crittenden, a senior advertising major at Northern Arizona University, says he didn't exactly know what to expect from his summer internship at Brown & Partners. But he's happy that he's being able to have a taste of just about everything the Las Vegas marketing firm does. "Every week I switch to a different position, just kind of looking around, shadowing people to see what everybody does," Crittenden says.
— Las Vegas Review Journal (Las Vegas, NV), 7/18/2005
LANL responds to Hurricane Dennis
Babetta (Babs) Marrone leads the Department of Homeland Security's bioforensics program at Los Alamos and has worked in biodefense research for several years. She is the project leader for the Bioforensics Demonstration and Application Program, a collaborative effort between Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Northern Arizona University sponsored by the DHS.
— Los Alamos Monitor (Los Alamos, NM), 7/18/2005
Lawrence Baron leads Northern Arizona University workshop on moral courage
Lawrence Baron, professor of history, will be the lead speaker and discussion facilitator for a July 25-27 workshop entitled Stories of Moral Courage, organized by the Martin Springer Institute of Northern Arizona University.
— San Diego State University (San Diego, CA), 7/18/2005
NAU receives $1 million gift
Northern Arizona University was given a $1 million donation to fund scholarships, internships and part of the Applied Research and Development building. The money came from the Arizona Public Service Foundation.
— Arizona Capitol Times (Phoenix, AZ), 7/18/2005
NAU native grad rate doubles
Since 1998, the graduation rate for Native American students at NAU has doubled. The Native American students who leave, usually do so for family or financial reasons, then come back to finish their degree later, or finish their degree elsewhere. "Where they finish is not going to show up on the four-year (graduation) rate, but when you look at the six-year or beyond. It may take us a little longer, but we eventual get our degree," said Catherine Talakte, interim director of Native American Student Services. The university is making progress in graduating Native American students in six years or sooner, which is shown in the ratings, she said.
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/17/2005
New grants for training American Indian educators
Northern Arizona University, Diné College and the Page Unified School District have been selected to receive grants to provide training programs to graduate new American Indian teachers and school administrators, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced Friday. Northern Arizona University will receive $256,364.
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/17/2005
Scottsdale force lieutenant sees her novella published
Scottsdale native Marcy Miller began working on the book about seven years ago as a novel but then changed it about three years ago when she took a novella class online through Northern Arizona University. Miller, who was taking classes for a master's degree in liberal studies focusing on good and sustainable societies, wrote three pages a night for the class and started to think about publishing more seriously.
— East Valley Tribune (Mesa, AZ), 7/17/2005
Distance Coaching Classic
The Center for High Altitude Training welcomes athletes and coaches alike at what is sure to be an outstanding learning experience. "The Distance Coaching Classic [July 28-29] will provide attendees the opportunity to learn about the training principles that have produced the greatest number of distance running champions in recent years," said the center's coach Joe Vigil.
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/16/2005
Local man gets 'private banker' status
Donald Brooks Curtis has been named a private banker for Wells Fargo's Payson branch. Curtis began his financial services career with Wells Fargo in 1997, and he has held positions as a Wells Fargo manager, premier banker and personal banker. He earned a bachelor's degree in Spanish and a master's in business administration from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.
— Worldwest Ltd., Liability Co. (Payson, AZ), 7/16/2005
First female manager for Penn Hills
Penn Hills is poised to get what may be its first female manager in the municipality's history. Earlier this month council, by a 4-1 vote, hired Marla P. Marcinko to fill the position of municipal manager. Marcinko, 44, earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Northern Arizona University.
— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA), 7/15/2005
Much more than doodling
Northern Arizona University professor Kelley Hays-Gilpin looks at rock art in her book "Ambiguous Images: Gender and Rock Art," which recently received the Society of American Archaeology book award. The book challenges the reader to set aside preconceived notions when interpreting images.
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/15/2005
BLM-NAU study looking at bats near Lake Powell
The spotted bat was once thought to be a rare species, and in most parts of the country, it is. But the Lake Powell region and the Kaibab Plateau country are home to a substantial population of the strikingly colored flying mammals, and last week the creatures took center stage in a study conducted by the Bureau of Land Management and Northern Arizona University. The project was intended to glean information about the roosting and feeding habits of several species of bat.
— Lake Powell Chronicle (Page, AZ), 7/14/2005
Cardinals training camp makes 'Top 5'
[Sports Illustrated's Peter King] makes a nice case for the Cardinals camp locale. He sure has the San Francisco peaks right. And he's dead-on about the drastic difference in temperatures between Phoenix and Flagstaff; heck, sometimes it's even 40 degrees cooler between here and there, especially in late summer. No argument from anyone who has been there about how clean and well-kept the NAU practice field is, or the beauty of its campus, either.
— Wickenburg Sun (Wickenburg, AZ), 7/14/2005
Grant to help train Navajo educators
Page Unified School District, along with Northern Arizona University and Diné College, have been selected to receive grants to provide training programs to graduate new American Indian teachers and school administrators. The grant award is part of the U.S. Office of Indian Education's Professional Development program. The district has partnered with NAU to help aspiring Navajo teachers and administrators to pursue undergraduate degrees in education and master's degrees in administrative leadership by compensating for tuition and other expenses.
— Lake Powell Chronicle (Page, AZ), 7/14/2005
Law news
Booker T. Evans Jr. has joined Greenberg Traurig Phoenix as a shareholder and will establish a white-collar criminal defense practice. He received his J.D. from St. Louis University and his bachelor's and master's from Northern Arizona University.
— The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 7/14/2005
Coming to your TV: The solar system
Periodic updates on the Discovery's Science Channel will profile Lowell researchers' work but the documentary detailing the start and finish of the telescope won't be released until 2009. Northern Arizona University film students will help provide construction footage to be fed into that documentary.
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/13/2005
Buckeye grad overcoming injuries at NAU
Jake Sanders knows a thing or two, about rehabilitating an injury. The Buckeye Union High School graduate is gearing up to start his junior season at Northern Arizona University, but for the second straight year is recovering from injury. "It's been frustrating," Sanders said of his injuries. "Luckily the training room staff has been excellent and my coaches and strength coach have been good about making workouts for me...I was going to be a business major but decided to use it as a minor and jump into construction management. NAU has probably the No. 1 program for that in the nation and there are a lot of good jobs in Arizona in that field."
— West Valley View (Litchfield Park, AZ), 7/12/2005
Construction begins on Lowell's Discovery Channel scope
According to an economic impact study conducted by the Center for Business Outreach at Northern Arizona University, the Discovery Channel Telescope will pump more than half a billion dollars into the state's economy over its working life of about 50 years, bringing jobs and scientific prestige to the area.
— The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 7/12/2005
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