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• Freshman thrower Matilda Roe was named the 2019 Big Sky Track & Field Female Freshman of the Year by the conference. She was also named the Most Valuable Female Athlete at the conclusion of the meet on Saturday. Roe, who’s from Bergen, Norway, was the silver medalist in the women’s shotput, discus and javelin at the championship… Read more

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• President Rita Cheng has been named to an NCAA working group that will consider legislation about the name, image and likeness rights of student-athletes. She is one of 19 members, including other university presidents, conference commissioners, athletics directors and student-athletes.
• Campus dining director Ben Hartley was one of 2019’s Heroes of Everyday Life by the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation. He received a… Read more

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• Tyler Day received his first title of the season as Male Track Athlete of the Week from the Big Sky Conference on May 6. Day is the NCAA Division I and Big Sky Conference leader in the men’s 5000-meter run after his race at the Payton Jordan Invitational with a time of 13:25.06. He also has… Read more

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• Chief information officer and vice president of IT Steven Burrell wrote an article for Ed Tech magazine. “To Optimize Campus IT, Start by Building a Better Team Culture” highlights the process that Northern Arizona University’s IT program went through to simplify systems, provide faster response times, build a team that is service-focused and become a proactive IT culture.… Read more

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• Photography senior lecturer Amy Horn has a solo exhibit at La Bellavia restaurant in Flagstaff. “Art of Water” will be displayed May-June and includes images from Horn’s year-long sabbatical project photographing water from oceans to ice.
• Faculty and students in the physics and astronomy department collaborated on a paper recently. David Trilling, Chad… Read more