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The NAU Review — Grad becomes sustainability star, FUSD middle schoolers visit NAU, an epic journey to graduation and NAU’s first In Memoriam

by Community Contributor • May 4, 2023 • Comments Off

May the 4th be with you

The NAU Review. The official news source for Northern Arizona University.

Sophia Swainson wearing graduation robes standing in the foresst

🎓 From burnout to fulfillment 🎓

Sophia Swainson was working as a server when she got a text message that changed her life—a job posting for a student worker position at NAU’s Office of Sustainability. It was a big change, but she took it and never looked back. As she prepares to graduate, she’s looking at jobs in the sustainability nonprofit sector, confident that the perseverance that got her through the challenges of college will help her as she takes on conservation.

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Middle school students wearing NAU shirts

LumberSNAPS: FUSD at NAU

Hundreds of middle school students came to campus Wednesday to get a taste of Lumberjack life. They got a cooking demonstration, met the president and did their own NAU Letters pose.

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Headshots of Chanelle Jasson, Te'Ron Lindsey and Christina Horner and the front facade of the North Valley campus

🎓 A long journey to the graduation stage 🎓

In 2019, a clinical psychology program shut down almost overnight, leaving students scrambling for alternatives so they didn’t lose all the work they’d done thus far. After appealing to NAU, College of Education leadership sprang into motion, creating a doctoral program the next semester and giving 43 students the option to continue their education in Phoenix. This May, the first five students of that class are graduating. For them, the accomplishment isn’t just earning their doctorates and becoming clinical psychologists—it’s doing so amid the challenges of their education being totally upended halfway through.

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NAU Yuma nursing students practice their skills

‘Nurses are superheroes’

Did you know that nursing is the largest of the health care professions? For National Nurses Day on May 6, The NAU Reviewtalked to Jason Bradley, assistant clinical professor and program coordinator for the nursing programs in Yuma and Tucson, about the importance of preparing more high-quality nurses to help meet Arizona’s critical shortages.

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Notes from the President -- José Luis Cruz Rivera

Week in review

President Cruz Rivera started the week with the Undergrad Symposium, meeting with the Foundation and Alumni boards and a quick trip to D.C. for a Department of Education convening on how to use data to improve student success, and he finished with FUSD at NAU Day and discussing with other leaders the role of higher education in climate action.

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