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Presidential Alumni Award recipient from the College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences (CEFNS), Wayne Ranney, was interviewed by a Chicago television station regarding the recent flash flooding event in the Grand Canyon. The interview provides an example of his role as a well-known public educator and interpreter of the geology and natural history of the Colorado Plateau. • NAU women’s golf ranked No. 1 in the Big Sky Women’s Golf Preseason Coaches’ Poll.

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History not only lives in books. It can be found in the physical traces people leave behind, including their bones. A class at NAU teaches students how disease outbreaks can be understood through an anthropological lens, focusing on what human remains and historical accounts reveal about the spread of disease and the impact of epidemics.

What can distant, tiny objects in space tell us about how our solar system formed? As it turns out, quite a lot. A pair of new studies, one of which was led by NAU Ph.D. candidate Anastasia Morgan, examined Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs)—some of the most far-flung bodies in the solar system—in an effort to better understand how the system formed and how it has evolved. The studies were the first in history to harness the joint power of NASA’s Hubble and Webb telescopes.

For students who want a career protecting communities, enforcing the law or preserving public lands, the path can begin long before they put on a uniform. Through classroom instruction, practical training and exposure to the realities of the job, the Law Enforcement Training Academy at NAU is preparing the next generation of professionals to serve both the people and the places they call home right after graduation.

Stephanne LHommedieu is used to playing a backstage role, but she agreed to step into the spotlight when she became the new president of NAU’s Staff Advisory Council. Read about how she found her dream job as manager of theater and public events and what she wants to accomplish in her year as president. Why did you come to NAU? Twice now, I have made the decision to come to NAU: once as a student in 2001 and again as a job applicant in 2021. The first time, I arrived on a music scholarship.

A program that started in 2023 will continue to give NAU students hands-on experience in addressing the homelessness crisis while they earn graduate degrees. The Garcia Family Foundation renewed its grant for the NAU Community Impact Fellowship Program (CIFP), which will support four graduate students by funding their education as they earn their MA in psychological sciences.

Since the dawn of uranium mining in the American Southwest, residents of the Navajo Nation have grappled with the grim health effects of exposure to radioactive material. That’s why NAU chemistry professor Jani Ingram and a team of researchers, in partnership with Navajo Nation leaders, have been working to help these communities access safe, chemical-free drinking water.

Dr. Mark Pico first came to NAU as a visitor. He appreciated the campus environment, so when the opportunity to become the medical director at Campus Health Services came up, he took the opportunity to return. Find out what drew Pico to medicine and a coincidental partnership that changed his trajectory. What brought you to NAU? It was the environment here on campus that I experienced when visiting my wife, who at the time was a doctoral student.