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March 10, 2022

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

Presidential pedagogy

Education is a second career for three-time Lumberjack Robyn Yewell. But it didn’t stop her from jumping in when she made the move to teaching elementary school science. After a decade of teaching in Tucson schools, two master’s degrees from NAU (and working on a third!), in February she was announced as a winner of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, K-6, for 2020. She is one of only two awardees from Arizona.

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Notes from the President: President Cruz Rivera

The week in review

President Cruz Rivera met with the Board of Regents and celebrated the naming of the Kitt School of Music in honor of Michael and Karen Kitt. Then he headed to Boise to meet with Big Sky presidents and cheer for the men’s and women’s basketball teams in the conference tournament.

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Unwind: What to do when taking care of you feels like just another task on your to-do list

Kate Carey, an executive assistant for Human Resources, gives advice on how to properly engage in self-care in order to relieve stress rather than adding stress to your busy life.

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Courtney Hale in traditional Japanese dress

Being Indigenous and pursuing study abroad

As a young Navajo woman, Courtney Hale didn’t know anyone who studied abroad. It just wasn’t done. But when she came to NAU, she learned about the programs and decided she wanted to travel, so she filled out the paperwork, told her parents and went twice—to South Korea and then Japan. Read what it means to her to be Indigenous while pursuing study abroad.

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