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NAU Events Emergency Communications Social Scene For Media Photography/Videography Request Public Information Request Subscribe Contact ResearchAcademics CampusCommunity Lumberjack Features Humans of NAU Fit it in a Minute Views from NAU Lumberjack Lifestyles Lumberjacks Abroad Lumberjack Flashback NAU Announcements Spotlight Contact Us How to put ‘building a rocket’ on your resume May 6, 2024 CampusCommunity Three NAU students awarded prestigious Udall scholarships NAU juniors Chiara Holgate, Mariessa Fowler and Tracey Yazzie received the 2024 Udall scholarship, which recognizes just 55 students nationwide for their leadership, public service and commitment to issues related to Native American nations or the environment. The scholarship will help support the students as they work toward careers that will help them give back to their Navajo Nation communities. May 3, 2024 ResearchAcademics The where, why and how of water in space Laura Lee, a Ph.D. student in astronomy and planetary science, is one of three graduate students to be selected for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program, a prestigious funding opportunity that supports students in STEM fields. Using a variety of techniques with instruments on Earth and in space, Lee is mapping water in the Solar System to better understand how and where this critical element is located on other celestial bodies. In addition to her groundbreaking research, Lee’s career goals include community education and promoting opportunities for women, people of color and first-generation students in planetary science. May 7, 2024 CampusCommunity Graduate Jessica Marshall: Turning challenges into opportunities Selected as the distinguished senior for the College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Jessica Marshall doesn’t shy away from challenges. Instead, she uses them to find opportunities—like working for NAU’s Pathogen and Microbiome Institute—and to build stronger community connections. MORE NEWS ResearchAcademics How to put ‘building a rocket’ on your resume Step 1: Join Space Jacks. Step 2: Do the dang thing. Last month, three members of NAU’s rocket club took a 7-foot-tall rocket to the First Nations Launch in Wisconsin, where they launched said rocket 2,500 feet into the air carrying a drone—which they also built—then piloted the drone to the ground. The results of their work: a functioning rocket and drone, internships at major aerospace companies and the kind of experience that will get the students their first jobs in the industry. The where, why and how of water in space Laura Lee, a Ph.D. student in astronomy and planetary science, is one of three graduate students to be selected for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program, a prestigious funding opportunity that supports students in STEM fields. Using a variety of techniques with instruments on Earth and in space, Lee is mapping water in the Solar System to better understand how and where this critical element is located on other celestial bodies. In addition to her groundbreaking research, Lee’s career goals include community education and promoting opportunities for women, people of color and first-generation students in planetary science. Mission to Mars: what a student-designed, student-built camera can teach us about the red planet A camera built by NAU students will be included on a mission to Mars this fall. VISIONS is designed to capture both the visible and infrared spectrums simultaneously and to include an entire planet in a single frame—features that will allow it to better capture data about Mars' surface composition and climate. The camera, which was built using largely commercial grade components instead of custom parts, will serve as a technical demonstration that a low-budget camera relying on commercial components is suitable for missions of this caliber. CampusCommunity Graduate Claudia Iglesias-Buck: How a world of adventures led nursing student to NAU Claudia Iglesias-Buck hasn’t taken the traditional route of becoming a nurse. But the experiences she’s had, including becoming a doula and yoga instructor and volunteering for the Peace Corps in Senegal, have prepared her for nursing in unexpected ways. Graduate Samuel Conley: ‘I want to be defined by my actions’ Prescott’s Samuel Conley went from directionless to determined and earned a spot in NAU’s Honors College. After four years of transformative research, study and extracurricular experiences, Conley isn’t sure about his next steps—but he knows he wants to keep learning and helping others. Graduate Jessica Marshall: Turning challenges into opportunities Selected as the distinguished senior for the College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Jessica Marshall doesn’t shy away from challenges. Instead, she uses them to find opportunities—like working for NAU’s Pathogen and Microbiome Institute—and to build stronger community connections. Lumberjack Features Humans of NAU: Marcy Hurtado Marcy Hurtado found her professional home at NAU Yuma, where she is the director of enrollment management. She talks about the joy of seeing students in the YES program move from high school to college, her goal of graduating with her doctorate and how each day is different. Making connections on a field trip to the U.S./Mexico border Students from Leah Mundell’s anthropology course, Global Migration and Human Rights, had their perspectives changed on a field trip to the U.S./Mexico border. Eileen Magaña reflects on the experiences she and three of her classmates—Erik Martinez, Owen Stark and Calvin Humphrey—had during their visits to Border Patrol, a community center in Nogales that aids border crossers, a humanitarian aid organization in Ajo that makes water drops and their conversation with a human rights activist and pastor from the Tohono O’odham Nation. Humans of NAU: Yifan Pi Worldwide, men make up just 6% of the pre-kindergarten teaching workforce—and that percentage is even lower in China, NAU student Yifan Pi’s native country. An early childhood education major at Shanghai Normal University Tianhua College, Pi seized the opportunity to spend his junior year at NAU, where he took classes at the College of Education and gained hands-on experience teaching alongside Stephen Riek at Flagstaff Cooperative Preschool. The aspiring teacher shared details from his time working and learning Flagstaff and revealed why he loves working with young children. FEATURED SPOTLIGHT Featured Spotlight: Mary Hanabury Director of Research Administration Mary Hanabury recently presented at two national research ethics conferences in Washington, D.C. At the Social Behavioral Educational Research Conference, Hanabury addressed the new and complex ethical challenges the research oversight world faces in an era of advancing technology and changing expectations surrounding personal information. At the ResearchMedicine Annual Ethical Conference, she shared how human research protection programs can play a role in managing research activities that fall into a gray area between human subjects research and non-human subjects research. NAU on Twitter NAU's Facebook pager Connect with NAU on LinkedIn Follow NAU on...