Faculty & Staff

Aug. 23, 2019

Get your fruits and vegetables here!

Faculty and staff at Northern Arizona University can soon be “prescribed” a healthier diet and fill their prescription with bags of free groceries.

According to the 2018 wellness survey conducted as part of the Healthy U program, though NAU employees ranked strong in wellness, they believed they should be eating more fruits and vegetables. In an effort to help, NAU’s Employee Assistance and Wellness (EAW) is partnering with Campus Health Services, Student Health Promotion and Campus Dining… Read more

Starting Aug. 13, all NAU faculty, staff and students will have access to LinkedIn Learning—a new platform that includes Lynda.com’s content to offer unlimited access to more than 5,000 expert instructor videos.

Lumberjacks will have the option to connect an existing LinkedIn profile to a LinkedIn Learning profile and gain access to high-quality online courses that focus on software, creative, business and professional skill development. By connecting accounts, the option to receive personalized recommendations based on what’s trending, interests and current job positions will be available.

LinkedIn Learning… Read more

June 13, 2019

Two Northern Arizona University professors are continuing their legacy of research and scholarship in applied linguistics by creating a distinguished endowed professorship in the College of Arts and Letters.

Fredricka L. Stoller, an alumna and professor of English, and retired Regents’ Professor Emeritus and former Vice President for Research William Grabe have created the Stoller-Grabe Endowed Distinguished Professorship in Applied Linguistics/Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL). The new position, which will be the first distinguished endowed professorship… Read more

June 11, 2019

Alaska is home to more caribou than it is to humans. It stands to reason, then, that these large mammals will have a significant impact on their Arctic homeland.

That impact has yet to be fully quantified, in large part because the environments where caribou live are hard to access and plan around. Northern Arizona University doctoral student Katie Orndahl faced these challenges often during her three years doing research in Fairbanks, Alaska, frequently taking bush planes into the wilderness… Read more