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…
NAU expert fights fire with research Posted on March 18, 2024 (March 18, 2024) by NAU Communications Are Arizona’s firefighters in it for the long haul—or is the Grand Canyon State grappling with employee retention challenges that could endanger citizens when emergencies or wildfires strike? State leaders recently tapped one NAU expert to help answer that question: Dierdra Bycura, chair of the Department of Health Sciences and an associate professor in the…
Eight women who changed NAU, Flagstaff and the world Posted on March 5, 2024 (March 11, 2024) by NAU Communications Extraordinary women have always walked NAU’s halls. Women were there, already breaking glass ceilings, in 1899, when the university was founded as the Northern Arizona Normal School. Their ranks increased in the early part of the 20th century, when it became the Arizona State Teachers College and its student population bloomed from dozens to hundreds.…
Computer science students at NAU compete for a ‘cool’ prize Posted on March 4, 2024 by NAU Communications What if, instead of fighting the environment around us, we harnessed it to create a low-cost, accessible tool that made our living spaces more comfortable? A team of computer science students from NAU is working on a project that will do exactly that. Project SmartFan is one of five finalists in the 10X Clean…
NAU joins statewide project to provide free hearing healthcare Posted on February 2, 2024 (February 2, 2024) by cdl324 Hearing aids can be prohibitively expensive for people without insurance, sometimes costing as much as $6,000. In response, NAU’s Communication Sciences and Disorders Department has partnered with the Arizona Commission for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing to expand the Hearing Healthcare Assistance Project, which provides free hearing healthcare for eligible people 21 and…