The NAU Review — Educating Indigenous health care providers, a love letter to the periodic table and who is Julie Mueller?

Feb. 8, 2022

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

How NAU is reducing health inequities among Indigenous populations

One of the most effective ways to address health disparities among Indigenous people is by ensuring the health care providers serving a community are offering culturally informed services and programs. For a long time, however, that need was ignored. A few years ago, after being regularly confronted with this deficit, professors in the Center for Health Equity Research created a track in the master’s of public health program that focused on Indigenous health.

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Fit it in a Minute
with Julie Mueller

Mueller, a professor of economics, was added to NAU’s executive team to increase equitable postsecondary value—a new guiding principle that helps ensure all students have equal access and opportunity to an education. Can she fit it in a minute?

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Elements from the Periodic Table spelling the words "heart," "amore" and "cute"

A love letter to the periodic table

In celebration of National Periodic Table Day on Feb. 7, chemistry lecturer Kaylee Rellaford gushes over her admiration for the elements and the table that organizes them in such a beautiful, informative manner that has stood the test of time.

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