NAU update for Oct. 6

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Friday, Oct. 6

Washington Center honors NAU with prestigious civic engagement award The award recognizes NAU’s partnership with Northern Arizona Healthcare to reduce health disparities among Arizona’s Latino, Native American and rural populations. Funded by $21.4M grant, NAU research center will address health disparities in Southwest Professors Julie Baldwin and Diane Stearns will lead the project, which focuses on increasing NAU’s basic research capacity to help the region’s underserved populations. 358 million years in the making: Work of NAU paleontologist David Elliott featured for National Fossil Day The NAU professor has studied the long-extinct heterostracan fish for more than 40 years. For the first time, the National Park Service will feature a fish for National Fossil Day on Oct. 11—Elliott’s fish. Mommy and me: NAU researcher discovers trees may pass drought tolerance to offspring  To combat the shrinking numbers, NAU’s Catherine Gehring has found a complex relationship between tree genetics and tiny microbes in the soil that may help pinyon pines withstand drought conditions. #DYK NAU Social is ranked No. 1 in the country? (VIDEO) Learn more about the team behind the university’s award-winning social media presence and just how much strategy goes into each post. • ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ sails into NAU’s Lyric Theatre production • NAU Department of Theatre unveils ‘Intimate Apparel’ • More than 400 NAU students ‘Suited Up’ for success at inaugural event • NAU’s #FLGTreeTag project raises awareness about varied benefits of trees • Spotlight: RANKING: Master’s in special education • Matthew Wangeman and alumna Kaitlyn Roy • Jamie Awe • Shawn Morton • Kelley Hays-Gilpin • Zachary A. Smith • Lisa Hardy