The NAU Review — Getting to know grads, Notes from the President, School of Music gets the Kitts’ name and Diné educators

 ❄️ December 16, 2021 ❄️

For the last two years, Laurel Malm, the first graduate of a joint program between nursing and ROTC, was on the front lines of health care, working in the COVID ward at Flagstaff Medical Center. Now she’ll take that experience with her into the Army, applying the leadership lessons she learned from ROTC and the need for flexibility, collaboration and focus she’s learned in nursing school.

Gabriel Breakstone first fell in love with law enforcement in high school. He spent the next several years of his life volunteering with the police department and working with the Coconino Sheriff’s Search and Rescue unit in between a full day of classes and student job at the W. A. Franke College of Business. Having graduated Friday with a degree in hotel and restaurant management, Breakstone prepares for his next adventures in public service: joining the Phoenix Police Academy to become a sworn reserve police officer and attending flight school to further his aspirations of becoming a commercial airline pilot.