NAU update for April 13

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Friday, April 13

President Cheng issues statement on recent DACA ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court “Like many of our faculty, staff and students, I am concerned this recent ruling prevents DACA students from qualifing for in-state tuition,” Cheng said. “Educating all students, including DACA students, is very important to NAU and to me personally.” NAU grad student awarded NSF research fellowship with proposal to take astronomy research to the people Colin Chandler, a second-year Ph.D. student, aims to enlist thousands of citizen scientists to comb through millions of pictures of space looking for elusive active asteroids. Learn how NAU student researchers are taking on the world’s problems at the annual Undergraduate Symposium From improving education to understanding contagious diseases to using statistics to study human compassion, undergraduate students at NAU are looking for answers through research. A difference of degrees: NAU scientist examines Earth’s changing tilt, its effect on Antarctic ice cores and what that says about climate Postdoc Michael Erb is the lead author on a study published in Nature Communications that compares climate responses simulated in climate models to those inferred from long proxy records like ice cores. • Learn fire prevention and safety on NAU campus, in northern Arizona and statewide • NAU PD earns eighth consecutive accreditation • Undergraduate Expo hosts Educate2Act, water symposium, climate change teach-in • Ecoss, McAllister program accepting student proposals to research Colorado Plateau • Registration open for NAU School of Forestry annual youth summer camp • Spotlight: Blase Scarnati and Daniel Palm • Kurt Lancaster • Jane Gilbert • Martin D. Sommerness • Allen Reich • Ishmael I. Munene • Barbara A. Ryan Gartin • Alan Lew • Harun Mehmedinovic • Student Spotlight: Analisa Quintero • Hanneke Lodewijks • Chelena Betoney, Peyton Carroll, Brianna Lehew, Olivia Lucero, Khiarica Rasheed, Tate Tsingine, Matt Baxter, Carter Bracken, Blaise Ferro, Cory Glines, Steven Hartshom West, Kyle Valriliak, Lorenzo Johnson, Phillip Kalaniopio, Jacob Kaufman, Matthew Kisiel, Ryan Lanley, Beau Prince, Brooke Anderson, Tylnn Carter, Alexis Caston, Pipi Eitel, Jessa Hanson, Tiana Hatler-Stefick, Jada Jackson, Emma Keenan, Jasmine Malone, Helena McLeod, Dana Padget, Rachel Pott, Delaney Rasmussen and Zoe Wall