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Google’s chief education evangelist speaking at NAU as part of President’s Distinguished Speaker Series

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April 10, 2019

Jaime Casap, Google’s chief education evangelist, will be the featured speaker at the President’s Distinguished Speaker Series at Northern Arizona University.

Casap will speak about digitalization, Generation Z and how the changing world will impact their work lives and the businesses they enter. Using his experiences at one of the world’s largest tech companies, he will discuss the unprecedented pace at which the digital generation and the digitalization of business and industry are on a collision course that… Read more

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NAU Percussion Ensemble concert features two special guests

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April 10, 2019

Northern Arizona University’s School of Music Percussion Ensemble concert presents a wide variety of contemporary music at 7:30 p.m. April 19 in Ardrey Memorial Auditorium.

Under the direction of music professor Steve Hemphill, the NAU Percussion Ensemble will be joined by two guest performers. University of Arizona doctoral candidate Michael Pratt will perform as marimba soloist on Jeffrey Dennis Smith’s “Tiger Dance,” a showcase of relentless rhythmic drive for percussion quintet. NAU alumna Alison Brightwell-Balot will return… Read more

Campus Forum scheduled for April 18

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April 10, 2019

President Rita Cheng will host the Spring Campus Forum from 3-5 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in the High Country Conference Center. The forum will be followed by a reception with refreshments.

NAU-TV will webcast the event for those unable to attend in person. Web participants may email their questions in advance of the forum or during the event to inside@nau.edu.

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NAU Theatre shows how to survive an apocalypse in ‘Mr. Burns A Post-Electric Play’

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April 9, 2019

A group of apocalypse survivors plays a mythic game of telephone in the Northern Arizona University Department of Theatre’s “Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play,” written by Anne Washburn and music by Michael Friedman.

The play begins shortly after an apocalypse. The electric grid has gone down and nuclear plants are oozing radiation, killing millions of people and destroying the world as we know it. A group of survivors gathers around a campfire to brave their new reality by… Read more

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Swim into summer with free lessons at Wall Aquatic Center

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April 5, 2019

This spring, Wall Aquatic Center (WAC) invites the Northern Arizona University and Flagstaff communities to participate in its third annual free swim session. Registration is open to children, adults and teens. The four-day session will be taught by NAU students as a part of their FIT 100 Water Safety Instructor Certification course. Classes will take place Monday and Wednesday evenings from April 22-May 1 at WAC (part of the Aquatic and Tennis Complex in building 86).

While… Read more

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Horizons Concert Series presents the sounds of spring with ‘The Birds and the Bees’

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April 3, 2019

As part of the 2018-19 Horizons Concert Series, Jeffrey Swann & Friends invite concert-goers to experience the nature-inspired music of renowned composers Gustav Mahler, Joseph Haydn, João Guilherme Ripper and Olivier Messiaen in the program “The Birds and the Bees.” This performance takes place 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 8, in Kitt Recital Hall.

Sopranos Christine Graham and Deborah Raymond, pianists Rita Borden and Michelle Wachter, oboist Rebecca Kemper Scarnati and clarinetist Cris Inguanti join pianist Jeffrey Swann… Read more

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