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After last year’s record-breaking crowd of 425 employees, Employee Development Day is back to further advance employees’ skills both in and out of the office. A variety of personal and professional development workshops will be taught by NAU faculty and staff from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 23. Sessions will be held in The W. A. Franke College of Business, Rolle Activity Center and SBS Castro buildings.

The event, “Pathway to Excellence: Develop U,” will offer 60-minute courses throughout the day on more than 40 topics. The classes repeat in the morning and afternoon.

This year’s sessions include:

  • First Generation College Student Experience
  • Promoting Inclusive Classrooms
  • What is Personalized Learning at NAU?
  • Empathy Fatigue Solution
  • Creating Assistive Technology Friendly Documents
  • Got Stress?
  • The Psycho-Somatics of Confidence
  • O.O Your Way Around
  • CPR and First Aid Tips Workshop

Morning and afternoon sessions will be separated by a lunch break. During this time a service fair will be hosted in the Franke College of Business, Mountain Line will host a demonstration and route planning session and field day events will happen on the south quad. Local Hits 106.1 will provide music and prizes during this time.

Employees can register on the Human Resources website now through 5 p.m. May 17. Those who register will have lunch provided in the Franke College of Business. For more information, contact Cassie Petit at (928) 523-9338 or cassie.petit@nau.eduor Jeff Pudwill at (928) 523-6106 or jeff.pudwill@nau.edu.

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During the week following commencement, campus services and activities will round up all abandoned bikes on campus.

Those who will still be on campus after commencement must place a green tag on their bike to avoid accidental collection. Bikes with these tags will not be collected. Green tags are available from the University Union and DuBois Center front desks beginning Friday.

Collected bikes will be held for the required 90 days before being sold at the abandoned bike sale on the Friday before the fall semester begins. Proceeds from this sale fund the Yellow Bike program on campus.

If a bike is accidentally rounded up, the owner should contact Grounds at (928) 523-6659 to determine if they have the bike and then to find a time to pick it up.

“Our goal is that no bikes that belong to people are rounded up,” said Megan Proctor, student unions and activities director.

For additional information on the bike roundup, contact Proctor at megan.proctor@nau.edu.

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Kudos to these staff, faculty and programs

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  • Anthropology professor Melissa Liebert co-authored a paper entitled “Tradeoffs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturists” that has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper discusses how low-level immune activity can predict reduced child growth.
  • College of Arts and Letters professor Michael Amundson has won a grant from the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration. The grant will support Amundson’s proposed project, “Glacier National Park Revisited: Rephotographing Clyde A. McCoy’s 1940 Color 3D.”
  • Bjorn Krondorfer, College of Arts and Letters professor and director of the Martin-Springer Institute, was selected for the Santa Fe Art Institute’s thematic residency program, Truth & Reconciliation. This prestigious program brings together 70 artists, creative practitioners, content experts and innovative thinkers to explore how the truth can be used as a means of reconciliation.
  • College Choice ranked Northern Arizona University in four lists for online health science degrees including Best, Best Master’s, Most Affordable and Most Affordable Master’s. NAU ranked No. 16 for best online, No. 13 for best online Master’s, No. 13 for most affordable online and No. 9 for most affordable online.
  • KNAU’s Aaron Granillo won a regional Edward R. Murrow award for best writing for his story “Arizona Prison Inmates Find Freedom Through Training Wild Horses.”This is the 12th consecutive year KNAU has won this award.
  • Paul Lenze, senior lecturer for the Department of Politics and International Affairs, presented “Leading from Behind: Obama and Trump in the Middle East” at the Middle East: Between Revolts & Insecurity conference at the University of Quebec-Montreal. This is the second year in a row Lenze has been invited to discuss U.S. foreign policy at the conference.
  • Northern Arizona University’s bachelor’s of science in allied health has been ranked No. 11 by BestColleges.com. This is an improvement from last year’s No. 24 rank.

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Kudos to these students

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  • Northern Arizona University’s Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) team won the Praxis Bowl for the second year in a row. Kayla Wood, Shea Millan, Naomi Rhodes and Maddie Easley competed against other CSD graduate programs from ASU, University of Arizona, Midwestern University and A. T. Still University.
  • Olivia Brown, Racquel Carpenter, Madison Martz, Brian Hamilton, Tarren Petty, Jacqueline Torpy, Brook Cayo, Sabine von Lersner, Hank Kollar, Keven Benavente, Mitchell Feldman and Taryn Wigington were selected as Spring 2018 SI Excellence in Leadership Award recipients. These students were awarded for their professionalism, work ethic, student-to-student engagement, strategic questioning, outreach and facilitation of program development.
  • The team of Jacks Online mentors, consisting of Kayla Bell, James Devlin, Melissa Sottosanti, Tammie Vaughn and Lizette Williams, received the inaugural Northern Arizona University Student Employee Team of the Year award from NAU Career Development. The team’s case for nominating the entire team prompted the creation of the award category which will continue to be available for future team award nominations.2017-18 Student Employee of the Year winner
  • Caitlyn Ratliff was awarded the 2017-18 Student Employee of the Year award by NAU Career Development’s student-employee programs. Ratliff is a student manager, lifeguard and lifeguard instructor at the Wall Aquatic Center. She was selected for her intercultural fluency and exemplary teamwork, leadership and problem-solving skills.

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For the culmination of Northern Arizona University’s International Week, the Center for International Education (CIE) hosted an International Festival on April 20, bringing together students from 20 countries to offer a booth about their countries highlighting traditions, culture, food, history and more.

Dylan Rust, director of international student retention and inclusion, said 200-300 people attend the festival each year, including 150 students from the Flagstaff Unified School District’s after-school FACTS program. The event, which takes place in the International Pavilion, provides both local and international students the chance to interact with each other and share their cultures.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity for children to meet people from around the world, and it is fun for the international students to engage with the kids,” he said.

One or more students presented a booth about each of the 20 countries. The booths present information and pictures. Some students add things to their booth for the guests to handle, while others have games. For instance, the booth with students from China involved a game where participants tried to pick up different objects with chopsticks.

For more information, visit the Center for International Education’s website or contact them at (928) 523-2409.

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By Katrina Miller
NAU Communications

The Udall Foundation has awarded Northern Arizona University student Danielle Curley the prestigious Udall scholarship. This is the second year in a row an NAU student has been awarded this scholarship.

Curley is one of 50 recipients chosen from more than 400 applicants. Udall scholarships are awarded to college sophomores and juniors for leadership, public service and a career commitment to issues related to the environment or Native American nations. As a 2018 Udall scholar, Curley will receive a $7,000 scholarship for educational expenses and a membership in a professional network of change-makers.

Curley is a junior majoring in social work. She plans to dedicate her career to serving the Navajo Nation, making the development of child health and social service systems a priority throughout her career to ensure trauma-informed care is accessible.

“Children are the key to our future,” she says, “so I will prioritize the development of child health and social service systems to ensure trauma-informed care is widely accessible. Through my education in social work, I plan to affect change within multiple levels of Navajo life, from individuals to widespread healthcare initiatives in hopes of facilitating a system of supports that will allow children to thrive in the face of adversity.”

The 2018 Udall Scholars will meet in Tucson from Aug. 7-12 to learn more about the Udall legacy of public service and interact with national leaders in environmental fields, Native health care and tribal public policy.

For additional information or to apply for a Udall Scholarship, contact Melissa Hatfield Riggs at natl_scholarships@nau.edu.