The Flagstaff community and NorthernArizona University will welcome NAU alumna and author Lisa Schnebly Heidinger as part of the president's speaker series and in honor of Arizona’s centennial celebration next month. Heidinger will discuss Arizona: 100 Years Grand, her recently published work … [Read more...] about NAU Alumna Highlighting AZ Centennial
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2012 Centennial Celebration
Feb. 8 The event will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at NAU's High Country Conference Center. Arizona will celebrate its 100th year of statehood on February 14, 2012. Arizona is the 48th state and the last of the contiguous states to enter the Union in 1912. The Arizona Centennial Commission is … [Read more...] about 2012 Centennial Celebration
NAU Getting New Dean for Business College
Craig Van Slyke, associate dean for Academic Programs at the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University, has been selected as the dean of The W.A. Franke College of Business at Northern Arizona University, effective July 1. Van Slyke said NAU's focus on increasing access to … [Read more...] about NAU Getting New Dean for Business College
Leveling the Tax Break Playing Field
Should municipal governments offer tax breaks to some? Recently, the Flagstaff City Council turned down a tax incentive proposal for a local car dealer. Scott Baugh, who owns Planet Nissan Subaru Jeep, would have received a four-year tax rebate in exchange for bringing a Chrysler-Dodge … [Read more...] about Leveling the Tax Break Playing Field
Exploring Options for More Local Food Production
Despite living at 7,000 feet where Mother Nature follows her own rulebook, a group of people is working to increase options for locally grown food. Flagstaff-based Local Fare was started by some Northern Arizona University students and faculty members who saw both a need and an opportunity. One … [Read more...] about Exploring Options for More Local Food Production
Learn About Brownfields Program
Coconino County and the City of Flagstaff will host the first of two community meetings at 4:30 p.m. today, to gather public feedback on a plan to seek federal grant monies aimed at the upkeep of segments of historic Route 66. Coconino County, Flagstaff and several other communities along Route 66 … [Read more...] about Learn About Brownfields Program
NACET Expanding in Prescott and Prescott Valley
The Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (NACET), in conjunction with the Northern Arizona Council of Governments (NACOG) and Embry-Riddle University, (ERAU) is working to expand NACET’s presence in Prescott and Prescott Valley. NACET now holds an office location at the … [Read more...] about NACET Expanding in Prescott and Prescott Valley
NAU Researchers Study Evolutionary Fish Jumping
Research sometimes means looking for one thing and finding another. Such was the case when biology professor Alice Gibb and her research team at Northern Arizona University witnessed a small amphibious fish, the mangrove rivulus, jump with apparent skill and purpose out of a small net and back into … [Read more...] about NAU Researchers Study Evolutionary Fish Jumping
NAU Lands $2.5 M Grant for Garden Array
The National Science Foundation has awarded Northern Arizona University’s College of Engineering, Forestry, and Natural Sciences a four-year, $2.5 million grant to create the Southwest Experimental Garden Array. The garden array will be a system of 10 experimental gardens across northern Arizona … [Read more...] about NAU Lands $2.5 M Grant for Garden Array
Festival of Science Underway in Flagstaff
The 2011 Flagstaff Festival of Science, through Oct. 2, promises celestial fireworks, soaring gas pillars and mystic mountains as Science Illuminates the far reaches of the universe through the windows of the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble astronaut, physicist and spacewalker Dr. John Grunsfeld … [Read more...] about Festival of Science Underway in Flagstaff