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President Cheng meets with volunteers

NAU, AZ MOM keep Flagstaff smiling with free dental care event (VIDEO)

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June 10, 2019

This weekend, Northern Arizona University opened the doors of its Rolle Activity Center to host a two-day event providing free dental care to hundreds of northern Arizona community members. Working 12-hour days on June 7 and 8, volunteers treated patients with dental issues small and large. The university partnered with the Arizona Dental Mission of Mercy (AZ MOM) and a number of local sponsors to create an event that brought the community together, helped neighbors in need… Read more

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Share your #NAUsummer adventures

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May 30, 2019

Summer is a special time of year—a time of reflection, exploration, adventure and enjoying the little things.

Whether you’re taking in the quiet of campus, working on a new project, checking off a bucket list item or exploring our great state and beyond—we want to see it!

Tag us in your social content or send your #NAUSummer pictures to social@nau.edu and we’ll share them each week here.

Submissions should include the following:

  • Your name, title and NAU affiliation
  • The names of… Read more

Del E. Webb Foundation gifts $1.5 million to support Northern Arizona University Science Annex renovation

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May 22, 2019

The exterior of Northern Arizona University’s (NAU) combined Science Annex, Physical Sciences, and Biological Sciences buildings are a part of the landscape of Northern Arizona University, with the same historical significance and aesthetic appeal as many of the buildings on the 120-year-old campus. However, the building’s interior spaces and laboratories needed significant improvement to meet 21st-century research demands for its students.

Responding to the need was the Del E. Webb Foundation, donating $1.5 million to the project. Designed… Read more

NAU’s Civic Service Institute looking for partner organizations to address opioid crisis

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May 16, 2019

As part of an effort to combat the ongoing opioid crisis affecting Arizona, the Civic Service Institute at Northern Arizona University has been awarded almost $303,000 through the Corporation for National and Community Service to begin the Alternatives to Managing Pain (AMP) AmeriCorps program, designed to put professionals into communities who can help people struggling with opioid addiction.

The AMP AmeriCorps program is located in Coconino, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo and Yavapai counties. It focuses on assisting proprietary health and… Read more

NAU bike rack in the summer

Abandoned bike roundup begins: Grab a green tag to avoid pick up

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May 16, 2019

The end of the spring semester means the start of the annual abandoned bike roundup where Capital Planning and Campus Operations will collect all abandoned bikes on campus.

Those who plan to keep a bike on campus after commencement must place a green tag on it to indicate that it does not belong in the roundup. Bikes with green tags will not be collected. Green tags are available from the front desk at the University Union, DuBois Center, Facility Services and Contracts, Purchasing and… Read more

Beni Garcia and children

Graduate Benilde Garcia: Mom who put education on hold finally gets to walk across the stage

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Benilde Garcia remembers sitting on the bleachers at her high school graduation watching, through tears, a few hundred of her classmates walk across the stage in their caps and gowns, wishing she could be up there with them.

During her junior year of high school she got pregnant and gave birth to a boy. Despite plans to stay in school, her son was born with health issues that required her full attention. She dropped out a semester before graduation and gave up her full-ride college scholarship.

She… Read more

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