Campus & Community

Oct. 24, 2019

Northern Arizona University’s Family Violence Institute (FVI) and NAUPD are co-sponsoring a gift drive for children who have lost a parent to intimate partner homicide. The goal is to supply those victims–who range in age from 5 to 21 years old–with gift baskets and board games for the coming holiday. Donations are encouraged and accepted in the form of family-oriented board games. 

FVI is a pioneer of social work programs in Arizona. Their most unique program, the… Read more

Oct. 25, 2019

Homecoming week events are well underway with more festivities in store.

Friday, the weekend officially starts for students at 4 p.m. with the carnival on University Union Pedway/P11, where they can enjoy carnival rides, games and food.

Saturday is packed with events, starting with the Flannels and Flapjacks student event at 8:30 a.m. on the central quad, offering free hot pancakes to students while supplies last.

The Flagstaff community is invited to join other campus events including the annual Homecoming parade, tailgate and the NAU… Read more

Oct, 17, 2019

At the semiannual Campus Forum Tuesday, Northern Arizona University President Rita Cheng talked about highlights from the university’s 120-year history and the exciting programs, investments, research and innovation that are hallmarks of the university’s promising future.

“Increased research, creative scholarship and public service activity directly benefit our students and their preparation for excellence in their future endeavors,” she told a crowd of hundreds at the High Country Conference Center, with hundreds more watching online. “It is an essential part of how we… Read more

Oct. 17, 2019

Just before Matthew Wright and his wife celebrated Valentine’s Day in 2007, Lori found a lump in one of her breasts. As a precaution, they went to the doctor for a biopsy.

“Don’t worry, you are too young to have breast cancer,” the doctor told her.

She was 32—not, as the biopsy later confirmed, too young to have breast cancer.

Kelli Smith was with her sister Jackie when Jackie was diagnosed with breast cancer in the early 1980s. Jackie, too, was told she was “too… Read more

Oct. 15, 2019

Neither Taylor Lambrigger nor Cézanne Rahner has set foot in the Kingdom of Cambodia.

Yet, both NAU alumnae represented the south Asian nation at an international conference earlier this year, arguing passionately on behalf of the Cambodian people, looking for compromises with other countries to help Cambodia both come to terms with and move past its history, a task that is hard to describe.

In fact, the whole experience—known as World Model United Nations, which in 2019 took place in Madrid, Spain—was one the… Read more

Oct. 10, 2019

Disparities in the nation’s juvenile justice system are prevalent and well-documented. According to Law Street Media, it is estimated that more than 61,000 youth in the United States are incarcerated each night. More than 65 percent of those are youth of color.

To help address these challenges, Northern Arizona University’s Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) recently hosted a one-day workshop, in partnership with the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM),… Read more