Campus & Community

April 5, 2019

Every year, dozens of firefighters and land managers for various federal agencies come to Northern Arizona University for class. Most have years of experience fighting fires or managing forests before and after fires. They know a lot about the forests, woodlands, chaparral, high deserts and grassland because of their careers, but they don’t have much in the way of classroom experience when it comes to plant communities and fire ecology.

That might not seem important, but students are… Read more

April 4, 2019

Northern Arizona University Athletics announced a new tradition: the celebration of its inaugural NAU Champions Week beginning April 8. This week recognizes each of NAU’s championship teams from the preceding fall and spring semesters.

The celebratory week will include social media recognition for all of the recent Lumberjack championship-winning programs and culminate with the Champions Reception at 3 p.m. April 11 in the DuBois Center. The reception is free and open to the… Read more

March 28, 2019

Northern Arizona University and One AZ Credit Union are giving Lumberjacks another outlet to show their blue and gold pride–an NAU affinity credit card.

The card, which was launched by President Rita Cheng at Wednesday’s Local Lumberjacks Happy Hour in Flagstaff, allows affiliates to give back to NAU with every use of the card. One percent of purchases made will be donated to the NAU Foundation.

Features and benefits of the credit card include:

• $2,500 minimum limit
• Zero percent APR for… Read more

People throughout the world are bringing issues of climate change to light by partaking in an hour of darkness.

This Saturday, NAU students and Flagstaff residents will flip the switch and join hundreds of thousands of people to celebrate Earth Hour—an event held annually encouraging individuals, communities and businesses to turn off non-essential electric lights for one hour—from 8:30-9:30 p.m. March 30.

The worldwide movement, organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), started in Sydney, Australia in 2007, in… Read more

Starting this week, faculty, staff and students on Northern Arizona University’s Flagstaff campus can have food delivered directly to them—by robot.

Through a partnership with Sodexo and Starship Technologies, NAU is now the second university in the nation to introduce a fleet of more than 30 robots that deliver meals and snacks from on-campus restaurants anywhere on campus. The Starship delivery bots were first introduced to George Mason University in January and have been deemed a success.

Since introducing the robots… Read more