NAU update for Jan. 12

Click here for the latest NAU News

Friday, Jan. 12

NAU celebrating Martin Luther King Day with march, community service Students are volunteering at organizations throughout the community, and at 1 p.m. there will be a march from the DuBois Center to Union Point. NAU’s Ecological Restoration Institute hires director of forest operations and biomass utilization Han-Sup Han will coordinate research and development efforts to help accelerate the pace and scale of restoration in frequent-fire forests of the West. NAU researchers use genomics to determine origins of deadly white-nose syndrome Jeff Foster led the team of international researchers who tried to definitively answer several questions—did this fungus already exist in North America or did it come from somewhere else? And more importantly, can a resistance be evolved? NAU introduces masters of public health program The program, which will start this fall, condenses the entire dietetics training route into two years and is paving the way for a new graduate-level training educational system for dietitians. NAU College of Education unveils new technology-enhanced classroom Northern Arizona University’s College of Education opened a new technology-enhanced classroom on Wednesday in the Eastburn Education building. The unveiling came on the heels of the college’s CAEP accreditation, the only one in Arizona. Mentoring makes a difference: NAU students, faculty discuss how such relationships improved their careers, education and lives To celebrate International Mentoring Day on Jan. 17,NAU News looked at how being a mentor changes lives for the better. • Longtime NAU employees recognized for years of service • NAU in review: Look back to the top NAU News stories of 2017 • NAU partners with Navajo schools to develop innovative new Teachers Institute • Candidates for the position of director of planning, design and construction to visit NAU • Spotlight: RANKING: Northern Arizona University • Andy Harvey Broadcast Journalism workshop • Jane Howard Turner • Melissa Sevigny • Marc Burdiss and Christopher Anderson • Laura Gray-Rosendale • Student Spotlight: Hunter Wilson-Pena • Elijah Marks • Community University Public Inquiry students • Social Work 423 students