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Media highlights for the week of July 19-25, 2005
A sampling of NAU programs, professors, students, staff and alumni appearing in the news
Zelienople manager poised to meet challenges of new job
Marla Marcinko possesses what may be the ultimate combination of qualifications needed to succeed as a municipal manager: a keen understanding of the law, an affinity for new challenges and a degree in psychology. "I really think it's a great opportunity for professional growth and development," she said, though this is not the profession Marcinko had in mind when she studied psychology at Northern Arizona University. "I thought I was going to eventually go to law school," she said.
—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA), 7/24/2005
Community Almanac
SUMMER SEMINAR SERIES: At 4 p.m. Summer lectures at Branigar Hall continue a 77-year-old tradition. This week's lecture will be "Paleozoic Vertebrates from Central and Northern Arizona," by David Elliot, NAU Geology. Free. Museum of Northern Arizona, 3101 N. Fort Valley Road. 774-5213.
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/24/2005
Super, sure, but not more than human
Is Lance Armstrong that unusual [because of his blood lactic acid levels]? It depends on whom you compare him with...Science does not know enough about the complex interplay of physiology and performance, and there are factors that no one knows how to measure...Richard Coast, an exercise physiologist and cyclist at Northern Arizona University, agreed. "When you look at elite athletes, cyclists or marathoners, you have to have the physiology to get to that point," he said. "But then, if you looked at the top half-dozen, you really couldn't tell the difference."
— The New York Times (New York, NY), 7/24/2005
[this clip also appeared at StarNewsOnline.com in Wilmington, NC, Florida's Herald Tribune and Gainesville Sun]
New post created to support teachers
Kathy Kay is being hailed as the perfect fit for her job as the Payson Unified School District's new curriculum coordinator. Kay arrives in Payson with a list of credentials, including earning both bachelor's and master's degrees in education from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Currently, she is studying for administrative certification at NAU. After wrapping up her job as director of standards development with the Arizona Department of Education in January, she spent the next five months taking classes for a doctorate in education at NAU.
— Worldwest Ltd., Liability Co. (Payson, AZ), 7/23/2005
Having fun at Northern Arizona University
Students were having fun at Northern Arizona University today, playing with Legos. High school girls are learning engineering by creating a computer program to make a robotic lego. Only about 11% of working engineers are female and organizers are hoping this creative camp for girls only will get them interested in the career. Northern Arizona University is also offering the girls a $500 scholarship just for completing the camp.
— 12 News Weekend at 10 (Phoenix, AZ), 7/23/2005
Church News
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Flagstaff: One service. "Recovering the Diversity of the Christian Past," with guest speaker Jason BeDuhn, associate professor of Religious Studies, Northern Arizona University. In the last century, the rediscovery of dozens of religious writings from the earliest period of Christian history has exploded the myth of an "orthodox" core tradition from which "heresy" diverged, and revealed the great diversity of belief that characterized Christianity from the beginning. In recounting the tale of this rediscovery, this talk will focus on the "Gnostic" wing of that diversity, highlighting its characteristic views of God, Christ, humanity, and the world.
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/23/2005
Glendale library spreads the health
Richard Herbig, a clinician and professor of psychology at Northern Arizona University, Western International University and Paradise Valley Community College, conducted a workshop on depression last month. By using a translator, he was able to teach, answer questions, and give out handouts to the audience. Based on the enthusiastic reaction to his workshop, Herbig said there is obviously a true need for bilingual health programs.
— The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 7/23/2005
Tozan Tea House gardens offer lucidity
The garden is the brain-child of Dr. Don Bendel, professor emeritus of ceramics at NAU and his alter ego, the late Yukio Yamamoto, master potter of the Tozan Kilns in Japan.
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/23/2005
Getting a LEGOS up with girls and engineering
Forget calculators and endless boring lectures. Engineering can also be about LEGOS, model airplanes and mousetraps, as girls attending the first engineering camp at Northern Arizona University for girls learned the past week. "Women are sorely underrepresented and gains that are being made are low," Multicultural Engineering Program Director Fonda Swimmer said. The camp was hugely successful for the first time being offered, Swimmer said. They had enough applicants for a second section and are considering it for next summer, she said.
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/22/2005
Film, talk depicts acts of 'Moral Courage'
The Martin-Springer Institute will present Lawrence Baron, the Nasatir Chair in Modern Jewish History and director of the Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies at San Diego State University. He will share insights into questions of moral courage through film and discussion on Tuesday and Wednesday at Northern Arizona University.
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/22/2005
Flagstaff finds new life in Old West heritage
I lived in Flagstaff until age 5...Northern Arizona University dominated the south side, but the campus was invisible from the main drag....I was intrigued by rumors of a resuscitated downtown...So I decided to see how Flagstaff fared without leaning on its more famous outlying wonders...We drove by the park with Alan Lew, a professor who specializes in the geography of tourism and recreation at Northern Arizona University, whom we met through a family friend.
— Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA), 7/22/2005
Editorial: Higher NAU native grad rates a source of pride
At Northern Arizona University, which has one of the highest enrollments of Native American students in the country, the graduation gaps among ethnic groups have been particularly large. In 1998, 67 percent of white students graduated vs. 15 percent for Native Americans. To its credit, NAU recognized the problem and tackled it head on. It formed Native American Student Services to address the special needs of its native student population. It created an Applied Indigenous Studies Program to better match its academic offerings to the real-world needs of native students after they graduate. It recruited native faculty. The result has been a doubling in the graduation rate of native students — more than a third now receive degrees from NAU within six years. And that doesn't count the native students who transfer to another institution and eventually graduate
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/22/2005
The amount of rearfoot motion used during the stance phase of walking
Mark W. Cornwall of NAU's Department of Physical Therapy collaborated on this study to determine the proportion of available passive frontal plane rearfoot motion that is used during the stance phase of walking.
— Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association (online), 7/22/2005
He's college-bound; I'm smiling
I took my 18-year-old son to NAU last week for orientation. In a parents' meeting, we were asked to shape a pipe cleaner into a representation of our emotions. Some made knots, some dollar signs. Mine was a smile. I figure if you rear a kid to adulthood and he's college-bound, you've done something right. Or at least, you didn't screw up too badly. (PATRICIA BIGGS, editorial writer)
— The Arizona Republic (Mesa, AZ), 7/22/2005
Dilkon police captain takes position in Fort McDowell
Dilkon Police District's captain, Jesse Delmar, 44, will soon be leaving the Navajo Nation for his new position as Fort McDowell's Chief of Police near Phoenix. He started out as a dispatcher and worked his way towards becoming a police officer while garnering a degree from Northern Arizona University in criminal justice and psychology.
— Independent (Gallup, NM), 7/21/2005
Leader leaves university
The woman who presided over the merging of Northern Arizona University's 10 colleges into six leaves for a new job in England in December. Susan Fitzmaurice, dean for the new College of Arts and Letters at Northern Arizona University, will be a chaired professor in English language at the University of Sheffield. "I have been tremendously happy here at NAU, and my career ... has been very fulfilling," Fitzmaurice wrote in a e-mail to her colleagues. "Now I have been presented with a rare opportunity to lead a significant research unit and program in my own research and teaching field in the history of the English language at a major university in the UK."
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/21/2005
Meet the new chancellor
UVa-Wise's announced Wednesday that David Prior will become UVa-Wise's seventh chancellor, starting work Sept. 1. Prior was chair of Northern Arizona University's biology department in 1987, and became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences there from 1992-1995.
— Tri-Valley Central (online), 7/21/2005
After-school teen program seeks input
The Tolleson Union High School District has approved a partnership with the Glendale Parks and Recreation Department to offer teen after-school programs at Copper Canyon High School this fall. Proposed programs include dance, theater, sports and public-safety training. Radio station KFMR-FM (95.1) is also interested in hosting a teen broadcast show. Another goal is to arrange for students to receive Northern Arizona University college credit for the courses.
— The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 7/21/2005
Part COLA, part merit, part market
Performance pays at Northern Arizona University. All employees are guaranteed a 1.7 percent hike salary this coming year. The remainder of the raises, which average 4 percent, are a combination of merit pay and bringing some employee salaries up to or close to the going rate for their area of expertise. "We have known faculty and staff compensation is an issue and the university has made it a priority," said Pat Haeuser, Associate Vice President of Planning and Institutional Research.
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/21/2005
Cassandra Renee Burch
Cassandra Burch, 24, of Yuma, Ariz., passed away on Monday (July 11, 2005) at Yuma Regional Hospital in Arizona after a tragic automobile accident...She attended NAU-Yuma.
— Commercial-News (online), 7/21/2005
And then there were 3
Another mountain lion that gave researchers data on the animals' territories and movement has been shot and killed by a hunter. The 31-year-old female mountain lion had been a coyote killer, USGS biologist Jan Hart said. It went after the same Anderson Mesa coyotes that were once shot from a helicopter for the toll they took on the mesa's once-struggling pronghorn antelope herd. The lion's collar may not have been very visible, as it is designed to blend in after a few months, said Hart, who works through Northern Arizona University. "Here was some natural coyote control that is not with us anymore," Hart said.
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/20/2005
Discovery Channel telescope will help solve mysteries of universe
Lowell Observatory and Discovery Communications broke ground on the Discovery Channel's Telescope (DCT), July 12, after nearly a decade of work on the design and the search for an appropriate site. Student filmmakers from Northern Arizona University have already started documenting the building of the new telescope.
— Worldwest Ltd., Liability Co. (Payson, AZ), 7/20/2005
Kids Kamp ends summer boredom
Head Supervisor Brandi Youtsey has worked with the department since she was 16 years old—this is her seventh summer and fourth year as supervisor. She said her experience with the Parks and Recreation Department has also influenced her future career goals; Youtsey is currently pursuing a degree in elementary education through the Signal Peak campus of Northern Arizona University.
— Tri-Valley Central (Pinal County, AZ), 7/20/2005
Braun named ACRA president
Debbie Braun has been promoted to president of the Aspen Chamber Resort Association. Braun will be responsible for overall operations and management of the chamber. Braun is a 1988 graduate of Northern Arizona University.
— Aspen Times Weekly (Aspen, CO), 7/19/2005
[this announcement also appeared in the Aspen Daily News]
NAU picked to finish 5th
Northern Arizona's football team is picked to finish fifth in the eight-team Big Sky Conference this season by the media and league's coaches.
— The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 7/19/2005
Flag lands make preservation list
The land initiative is similar to what has been proposed for Flagstaff and Coconino County before: Set aside a total of about 63,000 acres by transferring 47,000 acres to Northern Arizona University for its Centennial Forest, buy about 6,500 acres with money city and county voters have already approved, and conserve the rest.
— Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 7/19/2005
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