Older adults doing crafts at a table and playing drums in a circle

Now open at NAU: A day club for seniors with cognitive challenges

Someone working on a laptop with images floating from the keyboard

Research & Academics

The human side of AI

This summer, four new courses at NAU will explore the practical, human-centered side of artificial intelligence, focusing on real-world applications, creativity and ethical use. These classes aim to help students and working professionals understand not just how AI works, but how people can work with it.

Jacks in a Flash

Jacks in a Flash: Neal Galloway

How do you show the importance of interpersonal communication with art? Inspired by the geographical distance between loved ones, as well as the challenges people experienced during the COVID pandemic, Neal Galloway, associate teaching professor in the School of Art and Design, created a series of art pieces he hopes will do just that. In collaboration with associate teaching professor Barbara Ryan Gartin, he recently exhibited his work, “Tin Can Conversations: Wish You Were Here,” at ArtX, a three-day multimedia festival in Flagstaff.

Picture of Our Water: Innovations and Collaborations in Arizona exhibit at NAU

Campus & Community

Explore an exhibition that maps Arizona’s water crisis

An exhibition at NAU brings together art and research to translate drought, data and daily impact into a shared experience. The “Our Water: Innovations and Collaborations in Arizona” exhibit addresses the past and present of water insecurity with the collaboration of community members, organizational partners, stakeholders and academic researchers.

Research & Academics

Taylor Hartness and Tia Hatton

Two NAU environmental science and policy master’s students receive national conservation scholarships

Northern Arizona University’s School of Earth and Sustainability and the Wyss Foundation have named environmental science and policy graduate students Taylor Hartness and Tia Hatton as 2026-2027 Wyss Conservation Scholars. Hartness and Hatton are pursuing interdisciplinary graduate studies to develop effective new approaches to today’s most pressing environmental challenges.

Collage created at the Story Lab. It shows a clock in a spiral, a silhouette sitting on a chair typing on a typewriter and a black cat.

Building connections through storytelling

When we hear the word “lab,” we probably think of test tubes and fluorescent lights. But at one NAU lab, research is done through art and storytelling. The Social Science Community Engagement Story Lab builds community and collaboration while helping people share their experiences in meaningful ways.

Someone working on a laptop with images floating from the keyboard

The human side of AI

This summer, four new courses at NAU will explore the practical, human-centered side of artificial intelligence, focusing on real-world applications, creativity and ethical use. These classes aim to help students and working professionals understand not just how AI works, but how people can work with it.

Campus & Community

Older adults doing crafts at a table and playing drums in a circle

Now open at NAU: A day club for seniors with cognitive challenges

The Flagstaff Adult Day Club, run by Arizona nonprofit Oakwood Creative Care and housed at NAU’s Institute for Human Development, provides stimulating activities for local residents with memory loss, a respite for caregivers and a living laboratory for NAU students and faculty who want to better understand memory and aging.

NAU staff posing on the steps of a building and throwing LJs

NAU celebrates record-breaking generosity on Giving Day 2026

For the fifth year in a row, NAU Giving Day set a fundraising record. Thanks to the generosity of our extended Lumberjack community, we raised a whopping $1,221,449 from 1,035 individual donors. Your incredible support will help NAU expand access to higher education, empower students and strengthen the future of the university. 

Picture of Our Water: Innovations and Collaborations in Arizona exhibit at NAU

Explore an exhibition that maps Arizona’s water crisis

An exhibition at NAU brings together art and research to translate drought, data and daily impact into a shared experience. The “Our Water: Innovations and Collaborations in Arizona” exhibit addresses the past and present of water insecurity with the collaboration of community members, organizational partners, stakeholders and academic researchers.

Lumberjack Features

Jacks in a Flash: Neal Galloway

How do you show the importance of interpersonal communication with art? Inspired by the geographical distance between loved ones, as well as the challenges people experienced during the COVID pandemic, Neal Galloway, associate teaching professor in the School of Art and Design, created a series of art pieces he hopes will do just that. In collaboration with associate teaching professor Barbara Ryan Gartin, he recently exhibited his work, “Tin Can Conversations: Wish You Were Here,” at ArtX, a three-day multimedia festival in Flagstaff.

A row of American flags in front of a white fence.

Remembering on Memorial Day

The Lady Sharks rugby team members pose in their blue and gold uniforms on a rugby field.

Club Spotlight: Lady Sharks Women’s Rugby

There's nothing scary about swimming with these fishes. The Lady Sharks women's rugby team spends its academic year combining heart-pumping physical competition and heart-warming, often quirky, team building. Learn more about this thrilling contact sport and the women devoted to it.