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• NAU women’s golfer Aleksandra Chekalina is representing her home country of Russia in the European Ladies Team Championship July 9-13 at the Is Molas Resort in Italy.  Chekalina earned All-Tournament honors at Big Sky Championships while at NAU this spring in addition to her Third Team All-Conference selection.
• Women’s golfers Elle Kocourkova and Sara Padilla were… Read more

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• Northern Arizona University was included in two national rankings this month:
  • TheBestSchools.org ranked NAU No. 4 on its list of the 20 Best Bachelor in Hospitality Management Degree Programs for 2019. Accredited programs were judged based on quality of program, types of classes offered, quality of business education and faculty strength, awards and… Read more

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• School of Art senior lecturer Debra Edgerton was awarded a Research and Development Grant by the Arizona Commission of the Arts in support of “By the Grace of God,” a series of paintings that reimagine the notion of grief and loss for women of color. Edgerton’s paintings respond to “the spectacle of… Read more

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• Mechanical engineering graduate student Ali Farghadan, under the supervision of assistant professor Amir Arzani, presented his conference paper as a podium talk at the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania. The presentation is about aerosol transport in human lung airways and is in collaboration with the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and… Read more

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• David Hodge, an affiliate member of the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, recently became a member of PathSensors’ Scientific Advisory Board. Hodge has previously worked with PathSensors, a biotechnology and environmental testing company, as an expert in chemical and biological threats.
• Assistant professor of physics and astronomy Christopher Edwards was co-author on an article recently published in the… Read more

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• Linguistics doctoral student Brett Hashimoto and assistant English professor Jesse Egbert authored “More Than Frequency? Exploring Predictors of Word Difficulty for Second Language Learners.” The paper, published in the Language Learning journal, examines the relationship between vocabulary acquisition for second language learners and a variety of lexical characteristics.
• Student-athletes have earned a number of academic achievements for NAU Athletics.
  • Four… Read more