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Media highlights for the week of Aug. 2-8, 2005
A sampling of NAU programs, professors, students, staff and alumni appearing in the news
4th Street pool site losing favor
A scientific phone survey will be conducted by NAU's Social Research Lab before decisions are finalized so the City Council can better gauge the community desire [about where the general public prefers to have the community rec center and pool]. Chuck Hammersley, a parks and recreation instructor at Northern Arizona University, said the "most important thing I voted for is the indoor leisure pool. The competitive pool is important, but there's going to be 10 times more people using an aquatic center than are going to go into competitive swimming," he said.
—Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 8/8/2005
AJ man advocates for disabled
On July 5, Jason Geroux was hired by the State of Arizona as district coordinator for Pinal and Gila counties for the Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities. "With my passion and drive, anybody can learn the job," said Geroux, a Northern Arizona University graduate who worked in computer hardware and software sales before taking on the state position.
NewsAP.com (online), 8/8/2005
Pretty killers: Strong backs and big bucks needed to fight those bloomin' weeds
To defend Arizona against invasive weeds, we need to know where the infestations are. A regional database and mapping project, the Southwest Exotic Plant Information Clearinghouse, was set up in the late 1990s. It's a joint effort of the U.S. Geological Survey, National Park Service and Northern Arizona University.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 8/8/2005
Science news briefs
Penn State University will be home to one of four new regional centers for the Department of Energy's National Institute for Climatic Change Research. Other regional centers are at Duke University, Michigan Technological University and Northern Arizona University.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA), 8/8/2005
Staying healthy on campus a simple affair
Practicing good hygiene is the quickest route to staying healthy at school. Classes start at Northern Arizona University Aug. 29 and more than 5,000 of the university's more than 12,000 Mountain Campus students live on campus. Campus Health Director Beth Applebee recommends washing hands, covering your mouth when you cough, getting plenty of rest, exercising and eating healthy. "I encourage students to avail themselves of all the services available. They can be successful and happy at NAU," Applebee said.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 8/7/2005
Trail angels ease hikers' burden
Lauren Jones, 21, of Bakersfield, Calif., is a senior at Northern Arizona University majoring in speech pathology. She is one of three rangers who work Crater Lake National Park's entrances, visitor's centers and rim viewpoint, and have taken to hosting tired hikers, giving them a place to shower, do laundry, make a meal in a real kitchen and sleep off the fatigue of long-distance hiking. "I've learned not to get caught up in the day-to-day things that society tries to force on you," said Jones.
Hillsboro Argus, Inc. (Hillsboro, OR), 8/7/2005
Napolitano sees 4th-graders as pint-sized water savers
Gov. Janet Napolitano is pledging to defend Arizona's share of Colorado River water and asking state residents to use the resource wisely. Speaking Thursday night at the Arizona Water Summit in Flagstaff, Napolitano said she would take the conservation measure to the youngest residents, distributing booklets this fall to every fourth-grader. Water managers, local officials and business leaders are among about 150 people at the three-day water summit at Northern Arizona University.
Tucson Citizen (Tucson, AZ), 8/6/2005
Solar power is hot
You can look but you can't buy. That was the word Friday from the solar energy corner of the Southwest Sustainability Expo at NAU. A worldwide shortage of solar panels has put most local projects on hold.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 8/6/2005
Track world championships have many Flagstaff roots
Flagstaff is the ideal place for high-altitude training, say athletes, coaches and fitness experts. Today marks the start of the 2005 IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, and many elite-level track and field athletes have trained in Flagstaff in preparation for this meet. British standout Paula Radcliffe, a premier marathon runner, headlines the list of athletes who've trained at NAU's Center for High Altitude Training in recent months.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 8/6/2005
AIA names sports information director
The Arizona Interscholastic Association hired a former intern, 26-year-old Brian Bolitho, as its new sports information director. Bolitho graduated from Northern Arizona University, where he also worked in the sports information department.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 8/5/2005
Baldwin brings lofty goals to post at Cal State San Marcos
Mark Baldwin, the new dean of the Cal State San Marcos College of Education, received a doctoral degree from Northern Arizona University.
North County Times (Escondido, CA), 8/5/2005
Governor seeks lawmakers' help on rural water
More than 150 people, including water managers, local officials and business leaders, are attending the three-day water summit, held at Northern Arizona University.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ), 8/5/2005
NAU and TGen Awarded Multimillion Dollar Grant
Northern Arizona University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute received a large grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help save lives through faster diagnosis of certain deadly pathogens. The grant will bring nearly $9 million in support of this important project.
KPHO-TV (Phoenix, AZ), 8/5/2005
TGen and NAU awarded grant to identify pathogen signatures
The Translational Genomics Research Institute and Northern Arizona University have been given a multi-million dollar grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services to investigate pathogens across a number of disease indications. "A major challenge facing health care providers in the successful treatment of medical conditions such as sepsis and CAP is the inability to rapidly and consistently diagnosis these conditions," said Dr. Paul Keim, director of Pathogen Genomics at TGen and director of the Microbial Genetics and Genomics ABOR Center at Northern Arizona University. "By coupling the genomic signature analysis from our initial research to high-throughput assays we can validate signatures very rapidly and accelerate the advancement of this technology for improving public health."
Pharmaceutical Business Review (online), 8/5/2005
[this clip appeared in numerous outlets nationwide, including Datamonitor, Medical News Today, dBusinessNews.com, BusinessWire, Genome Technology, The Arizona Republic, Phoenix Business Journal, New Mexico Business Journal, San Francisco Business Journal Pacific Business News]
UCSB gets $1.5 M to study bioterror
The work that will be done at UCSB will focus on a single pathogen, the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which causes a disease called melioidosis, also known as Whitmore's disease. It is most prevalent in Thailand and northern Australia, Ms. Cotter said, and was used as a weapon during World War II. Scientists from UCLA, Northern Arizona University and the University of Nevada, Reno, will also be working on Burkholderia.
Santa Barbara News-Press (Santa Barbara, CA), 8/5/2005
Water Wars: Western drought hits hard
Tens of millions of pine and spruce trees have died from drought and beetle infestation. "Absolutely unprecedented," said Mike Wanger, a professor of entomology at Northern Arizona University. "We've never had these conditions before. Never had that combination."
Bassmaster (on ESPN.com) (online), 8/5/2005
Will Colorado River be tapped out?
Hydrologists, water managers, tribal members, politicians and other experts are still gathered at Northern Arizona University today to talk about water, drought, global warming, conservation and how cities and tribes will adapt to a drought that some say is far from over and projected water shortages in the decades ahead.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 8/5/2005
Alternative energy a focus of two-day expo at NAU
It time to learn about environmentally friendly and sustainable lifestyles at the seventh annual Southwest Sustainability Expo Friday and Saturday at the NAU Field House. This year's expo is co-hosted by the Greater Flagstaff Economic Council and the Northern Arizona University Center for Sustainable Environments. "We were able to use our contacts and strong sustainability focus to expand the exhibitors that are going to be there," said Julie Evans, program coordinator for the Center of Sustainable Environments.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 8/4/2005
Penn State to host U.S. DOE Regional Climate Center
How energy production and use influences climate and environment will be the focus of Penn State's newly awarded Northeastern Regional Center of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Institute for Climatic Change Research (NICCR). The other three centers' principal investigators are Southeastern, Robert Jackson, Duke University; Midwestern, Kurt Pregitzer, Michigan Technological University and Western, Bruce Hungate, Northern Arizona University.
Penn State Live (online), 8/4/2005
[this clip also appeared on I-Newswire.com]
Cosmic rays may prevent long-haul space travel
Cosmic rays, which come from outer space and solar flares, are now regarded as a potential limiting factor for space travel. 'I do not see how the problem of this hostile radiation environment can be easily overcome in the future,' says Keran O'Brien, a space physicist from Northern Arizona University, US. 'A massive spacecraft built on the moon might possibly be constructed so that the shielding would reduce the radiation hazard,' he told New Scientist. But even so he reckons that humans will be unable to travel more than 75 million kilometres (47 million miles) on a space mission - about half the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
NewScientistSpace.com (online), 8/3/2005
[this clip also appeared at The Pioneer]
Weapon performance determines mating success in the collared lizard
In a study published in the September issue of The American Naturalist, A. Kristopher Lappin (Northern Arizona University) and Jerry F. Husak (Oklahoma State University) use the eastern collared lizard, a sexually dimorphic lizard in which the jaws of males function as a weapon in fights, to test the hypothesis that weapon performance (i.e., bite force) is a better predictor of fitness than body size and weapon size. The study finds that bite-force performance was a strong predictor of reproductive success.
ScienceDaily (North Potomac, MD), 8/3/2005
[this clip also appeared at EurikAlert.org]
Calvert appoints Dr. Julie Gorte as vice president, chief social investment strategist
Calvert, the nations' largest family of socially responsible mutual funds, announced the appointment of Dr. Julie Gorte to the position of Vice President, Chief Social Investment Strategist. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. in Forest Management from Northern Arizona University.
Business Wire (online), 8/2/2005
Former All-American joins NAU coaching staff
Mike Friedberg has been here in Flagstaff less than a month, but as the new assistant cross-country and distance track coach at NAU, there's no time to spare before the season begins. "I was excited to get back to an altitude environment," he says, adding that the distance legacy at NAU is impressive. "I remember wondering what was up with NAU when I saw they were beating Arizona State and the University of Arizona all the time," he says.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 8/2/2005
NAU lands climate research institute
Northern Arizona University has been picked to be the site of a federal regional climate research institute.
KOLD-TV (Tucson, AZ), 8/2/2005
[this clip also appeared on KPHO-TV in Phoenix]
NAU picked for regional climate research institute
Northern Arizona University was chosen by the Department of Energy to head a regional climate research institute. NAU will be one of four universities to have a National Institute for Climatic Change Research. The other universities are Duke, Penn State and Michigan Tech. The regional institute will bring in $10 million over five years. NAU professors Bruce Hungate and George Koch, professors of biology, will run the center and determine funding for projects in the 13 Western states under NAU's region, including Alaska and Hawaii.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), 8/2/2005
Reproduction Ramifications
In the other presentation, graduate student Stefanie Whish of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff described research to be presented at the main meeting suggesting that uranium in its soluble form is an EDC, and may contribute to reproductive health problems in the Navajo people. Whish and her colleagues treated ovariectomized mice with uranyl nitrate in drinking water.
Environmental Health Perspectives (online), 8/2/2005
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