Cultural, Education, Local, News NAU update for June 1 by Community Contributor • June 1, 2017 • Comments Off on NAU update for June 1 Click here for the latest NAU News Professor brings innovative program in adolescent drug abuse education to NAU Professor Julie Baldwin will lead the program, focusing on populations that experience behavioral health disparities, including Native Americans, Hispanics and other rural groups. NAU researchers discover increasing aridity and land-use overlap causes conflict in drylands Climate change combined with overlapping high-intensity land uses are likely to create conditions detrimental to the recreation economy, wildlife habitat, water availability and other resources in hyper-arid landscapes, or drylands, in the future. An eclectic, engaging engineer: NAU prof finds his niche turning conceptual into tangible Engineering is hard. Professor Brent Nelson can’t make it easy, but he can help students connect what they learn in the classroom to real life. • Artists past and present appear in NAU Art Museum’s summer exhibit • Politics, space exploration and music take center stage at Summer Seminar Series • NAU hosts Indigenous workshops and conferences, open for registration • Spotlight: Bill Carter • Steve Burrell • Michelle Miller Student Spotlight: Gabrielle Delio and Whitney Holeva • Louie’s Cupboard
