The NAU Review — Ditch the car and win!

April 15, 2025

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

Student wearing a bike helmet stands with her bike on the pedway.

Ditch the car and win!

Green Transportation Week, a new initiative from the Office of Sustainability, invites students, faculty and staff to celebrate Earth Day by leaving the car at home and finding alternative modes of transportation. Participate in events throughout the week of April 21-25 and win bikes, gift cards and a healthier lifestyle!

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Care for Nahasdzáán: A journey into Diné culture

A class created by CIE and the Department of Sociology offers students a way to learn about Indigenous cultures and their ways of life by taking them on a memorable journey with Diné partners and NAU professors.

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Students in the construction management program build a bathroom.

How NAU is building Arizona

In construction, experience matters. That’s why students in NAU’s construction management program get it right away. A three-part lab gives students the opportunity to model, build and oversee a construction project, with students doing all the work from pouring concrete to designing to reporting to the owner. The program’s goal: To ensure all graduates are prepared for the workforce the day they cross that graduate stage in commencement hard hats.

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Who’s afraid of the not-so-itsy-bitsy spider?

By measuring electrical brain activity, a team of 16 undergrad research assistants led by professor Larry Stevens and two student lab managers aims to train study participants to beat arachnophobia.

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A student researcher hooks a test subject to an EEG machine while the subject looks at a tarantula.

NAU team has best-ever finish at Regents’ Cup 🏆

At the sixth annual event held in Flagstaff, Karli VanderMeersch and Courtney Hoffman beat UA to win the Oxford debate competition, while Hayder Alainizi took third place in storytelling.

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