Former members of Congress to visit NAU for town hall Posted on April 3, 2024 (April 4, 2024) by NAU Communications On Wednesday, April 10, the Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff and surrounding communities will have a rare chance to interact with lawmakers who played major roles in shaping federal policy. Two former members of Congress—Karan English, a Democrat who represented Arizona’s 6th congressional district from 1993 to 1995, and Tom Petri, a Republican who represented Wisconsin’s…
NAU, OpusVi launch affordable online master’s degree in social work Posted on March 27, 2024 by NAU Communications Demand for social workers in the United States is growing fast—yet the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) predicts that the profession will face a shortfall of thousands of full-time employees in the next year. Northern Arizona University and the healthcare organization OpusVi are stepping in with a solution to this critical problem: An…
Meet the trailblazing woman who founded NAU’s chemistry department Posted on March 26, 2024 (March 27, 2024) by NAU Communications Junia McAlister was born in 1899—the same year the Northern Arizona Normal School opened its doors in Flagstaff. Two years later, four women made up the first graduating class. Decades later, “Miss Mac” came to what is now Northern Arizona University to teach chemistry. What she ended up doing was creating the chemistry department, carrying…
NAU breaks ground on a new hospitality education center in Mesa Posted on March 25, 2024 by NAU Communications The School of Hotel and Restaurant Management (HRM) at Northern Arizona University will soon have a new way to provide hospitality education in Arizona. On Tuesday, March 19, the school broke ground on its new Mesa Workforce Development Center (MWDC) at Skybridge near the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. The ceremony included remarks from Regent Jessica Pacheco…
Humans of NAU: Monica Cowbrough Posted on March 21, 2024 by NAU Communications When career-ending injuries derailed Monica Cowbrough’s plans, she found another way to stay close to what she loved—athletic communications. The associate athletic director of communications talks about the pivot that her alma mater allowed her to make in her life, the work she’s done to get to this point and the importance of representation in…
NAU students lead the charge in community volunteering efforts Posted on March 20, 2024 (March 20, 2024) by NAU Communications Logan Scarbrough, an NAU finance major, has a personal connection to breast cancer. As a child, he supported his mother through her treatment and together, they participated in a Phoenix breast cancer awareness walk every October. Perhaps that’s why, when he learned that Assistant Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Marissa Griffin was diagnosed with breast…