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Media highlights for the week of Aug. 9-15, 2005
A sampling of NAU programs, professors, students, staff and alumni appearing in the news
New at the top: Julie Gorte
Position: Vice president and chief social investment strategist, Calvert Group, a Bethesda firm that manages 32 mutual funds with more than $10 billion in assets under management, including "socially responsible" funds. Education: BS, forest management, Northern Arizona University..."I chose to study forest management and science when I first went to college because I grew up as a skier and a rock climber in Colorado, and the ability to go out my front door and be climbing...in less than an hour was a precious opportunity I didn't ever want to lose..."
The Washington Post (Washington, DC), 8/15/2005
Helping hands
Army Maj. Thomas Carlisle returned from Iraq in June to become a professor of military science at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. "It doesn't take the world's strongest military power to make a change," said Carlisle. "There are ways to make a difference through small community projects. All it takes is an individual or a group of people with determination to make something better than it was."
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI), 8/15/2005
NAU women's basketball earns honors
Northern Arizona tied for ninth on the Women's Basketball Coaches Association 2004-05 Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll with a team grade-point average of 3.392. This is the second straight year the Lumberjacks have earned a spot in the Top 25. For the 2003-04 season, the NAU women earned a 3.436 to place fifth on the honor roll.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 8/15/2005
Dorm life done right
...[Decorating your dorm room is] 'about making a statement.' Eighteen-year-old John Cartier's room at Northern Arizona University will say, 'I love video games.' Cartier, a Catalina Foothills High School graduate, says, like most of his guy friends, he didn't worry about his sheets matching his pillows. He just wanted them to be soft. His mom bought him a chair that he describes as 'comfortable' and 'the goofiest color orange you've ever seen.'
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, AZ), 8/14/2005
Scientists: If prairie dogs vanish, other species will follow
The Gunnison's prairie dog is one of five known prairie-dog species, and all are losing the battle for habitat and survival in the West, scientists say. "I think if they don't receive some help, in the not-too-distant future all five species will go extinct," said prairie-dog biologist Con Slobodchikoff of Northern Arizona University. "That in turn will affect a whole lot of other species that depend on them."
Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM), 8/14/2005
Arizona dropout prevention programs are working
At a recent conference for schools, called Spotlight on Success, we honored three successful dropout prevention programs: NAU Gear Up—"Gear Up" stands for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs. It is a dropout prevention and college-access program for economically disadvantage students. It has significantly increased the number of low-income students staying in school. Each "class" is served beginning in seventh grade and is followed through high school graduation. Nearly 4,000 students are managed by coordinators at 11 sites across Arizona. Eighty-eight percent of Gear Up juniors are on track to graduate in 2006.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 8/13/2005
Logo revealed
NAU unveiled its new, $20,000 athletic logo and it's big on simplicity: no more Louie the Lumberjack as the marquee and a single ax as the dominant theme. "When you are part of the Lumberjack family, you understand how important the ax is," NAU Athletic Director Jim Fallis said. "The ax reflects the workmanlike mentality of the student athletes."
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 8/13/2005
Old Louie gets the ax
Louie the Lumberjack has had a makeover. With mountain peaks behind him, he stands up straight and grips a big, yellow-handled ax with his left hand. "This was ... the next step in our strategic marketing plan for the entire university," said Dr. M.J. McMahon, NAU's executive vice president. ..."As you become a part of the Lumberjack family, you begin to realize just how much meaning the ax has," said Jim Fallis, NAU's athletics director. "...The ax reflects on the workman-like mentality of our student-athletes and the success that we want to bring to the program." And, thus, the ax is a trademark the university wants to keep alive.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 8/13/2005
Anasazi center sponsors interns
The 2005 internship program is underway at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Anasazi Heritage Center/Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. Ashley Funderburg of Little Rock, Ark., is a graduate student in archaeology at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. She is currently analyzing and cataloging ceramics and lithics from a Basketmaker III site in Montezuma County.
Animas Publishing, Inc. (Cortez, CO), 8/12/2005
Crews move quickly to remodel old U.S. Air Force facility for NPC
Remodeling work on the old U.S. Air Force Operations facility on the Northland Pioneer College Painted Desert Campus on Navajo Blvd., in Holbrook is moving quickly. On the building's south end, the NAU addition and space for the college's Internet equipment is to be built.
Navajo County Publishers (Holbrook, AZ), 8/12/2005
El-Afandi envisions big things for Lassen
While Principal Hamed El-Afandi may fit his own description of a "big junior high kid," he has made education his career and has served in south Phoenix's Roosevelt District for 15 years. El-Afandi received his master's in education leadership from Northern Arizona University.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 8/12/2005
Gatlin wins again, Americans take 3 more golds in Helsinki championships
Japan's Dai Tamesue took bronze in the 400 hurdles. He completed his first training camp at NAU's Center for High Altitude Training this spring.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 8/12/2005
New Louie at NAU
Louie the lumberjack is getting a makeover...the logo will bring a professional look to the uniforms...NAU is working on a more family friendly Louie who won't frighten away children.
12 News at 6 (Phoenix, AZ), 8/12/2005
Pressure's on
Olivia Free-Woman, eighth-grade teacher, Creighton Elementary School, Creighton Elementary District, Phoenix, is one of three veteran teachers who offered a perspective on life in the classroom with No Child Left Behind. Free-Woman holds a master's degree in elementary education from Northern Arizona University, and has been at Creighton for more than 20 years.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 8/12/2005
Youths learn conservation the hard way
A couple of local teens may have a new appreciation for conservation as they wrap up a summer of physical labor, compliments of the Aspen Parks Department. The youths have dug irrigation ditches, planted trees, pulled thistles, constructed a small bridge and canvassed town to distribute leaflets to homeowners about scale, an infestation of aspen and cottonwood trees. 'It was good work,' said Nathan Rockafellow, who's headed to Northern Arizona University this fall. 'It was just something I thought would be good for me to do.'
Aspen Times (Aspen, CO), 8/12/2005
Zito's Garcia knows temptation to skip
Now 30, Gabriel Garcia wears a buttoned-down white shirt and tie and is eager to meet students at Joseph Zito School in the Isaac School District. Hired in July, he is Isaac's youngest principal. Garcia earned a master's in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 8/12/2005
Tourism promotion or political advertising?
Fred Solop, a Northern Arizona University political science professor and pollster, said billboards that feature Gov. Napolitano to promote Arizona tourism are part of the perks of office. "This is a tactic that is often taken near elections," Solop said. "In presidential years, social security checks will come in the mail with a note from the president. It's something that happens. I understand the concerns."
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 8/11/2005
Turlock woman teaches ancient art of belly dancing
NAU alum Christine Wilde finds pain relief in belly dancing.
Turlock Journal (Turlock, CA), 8/10/2005
Packages promote tourism
Linda Marie Golier, the Vacationland Resources Committee summer intern from a cultural anthropology program at Northern Arizona University, spent the last 10 weeks surveying the two counties' tourism opportunities that uphold sustainable tourism practices. Golier's presentation and its recommendations will now be used as a training tool for those 260 business owners—so the bigger tourism picture can be better understood. "There are a hundred components to tourism, and just saying, 'We want more tourists' is not the only consideration," Golier said.
Bangor Daily News (Bangor, ME), 8/9/2005
TGen, NAU's Keim form ideal partnership
In the world of private-public partnerships, it's hard to imagine a better pairing than TGen and Paul Keim's pathogen genetics lab at NAU. And now, thanks to a $9 million federal research grant, we won't have to wonder much longer.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 8/9/2005
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