NAU update for Dec. 15

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Friday, Dec. 15

Mike Marlow joins NAU as Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Marlow, who is a deputy athletics director at Washington State University, rose to the top of a field of strong applicants. He will begin work in January. Graduate Cindy Winkler: How one student’s impossible dream came true, four decades later Cindy Winkler is many things—mother, divorcee, National Park Service employee, grandmother, widow—and at the age of 71, she can finally add “college graduate” to her growing list. NAU environmental science student, professor publish study on Grand Canyon water flow Casey Jones, who graduates tomorrow with a master’s degree, and Abe Springer measured the speed and routes water used to move from the Kaibab Plateau to Roaring Springers in the canyon. Graduate Adrianna Camacho: President’s Prize winner found passion in cardiac intensive care Camacho, who went to nursing school at NAU Yuma, says her experience as a heart patient and with her mother’s cancer influenced her career choice. Family affair: Mother, son graduating from NAU on Friday When David Despars signed up for dual enrollment classes while in high school, he reminded his mother, Sharon, of a promise she’d made: ‘I’ll go to college when you do.’ Both graduate tomorrow. Graduate Mike Taylor: With NAU degree No. 3 done, Lumberjack looking at ways to benefit university Mike Taylor, a Cline Library employee, is earning his master’s degree in computer science after a love for technology drew him to a different aspect of education. • NAU commencement: What to know as we celebrate the class of 2017 • NAU ITS announces new Adobe contract, offers faculty and staff affordable applications • Santa’s Sleigh fund helps NAU employees in need • NAU’s Student Technology Center moving to Cline Library • Spotlight: Lisa Hardy • RANKING: Northern Arizona University • Interdisciplinary Global Programs • Fredricka Stoller • David Church • Student Spotlight: Olivia Lucero • Dylan Thomas and professor Andy Koppisch • Elijah Marks