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	Disability Pride and Heritage Month celebrates virtually, highlights online accessibility Northern Arizona University is celebrating Disability Pride and Heritage Month virtually to engage the community in dialogue around disability, inclusivity and accessibility during the month of October.
	EPA grant to allow NAU’s Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals to address pesticides on tribal lands NAU’s Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals was awarded a five-year cooperative agreement by the EPA to provide technical support for the Tribal Pesticide Program Council, an EPA partnership group that addresses pesticide use on tribal lands.
	NAU atmospheric scientist maps CO2 emissions for entire U.S. landscape to help improve environmental policymaking SICCS professor Kevin Gurney published a study earlier this week that details greenhouse gas emissions across the entire U.S. landscape at high space- and time-resolution with details on economic sector, fuel and combustion process.
	¡Bienvenidos a la familia! How NAU’s University Admissions transformed resources for bilingual prospective Lumberjacks In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, learn how University Admissions has expanded and grown recruitment resources for students with Spanish-speaking families by offering bilingual events, fliers and other recruitment materials.
	NAU researchers receive grants for health equity work in the local community The Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative funded four projects adressing diseases that disproportionately impact populations vulnerable to health disparities as well as projects that lead to development and support of sustainable relationships with community-based partners.
	NAU astronomer co-authors studies of asteroid Bennu as member of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission The spacecraft mission, launched in, 2016, is the first U.S. mission designed to retrieve a pristine sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth for further study. Scientists believe Bennu may contain the precursors to the origin of life.
	Moss identity matters most, according to new study by NAU graduate student researcher Julia Stuart focused her research on the ecosystems of Alaska, and the study, published in the journal Ecosystems, offers an important insight for models that predict how landscape-level nutrient cycling will shift as the climate changes.