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The NAU Review — A veteran’s journey to NAU, Fit it in a Minute with Pete Yanka and NAU Theatre’s Orlando

by Community Contributor • November 10, 2022 • Comments Off

🇺🇸 Nov. 10, 2022

The NAU Review. The official news source for Northern Arizona University.

Tyler Derzay and wife, Amanda, sitting on motorcycle with Sedona Red Rocks in the the background.

Former Marine finds a new calling

Tyler Derzay had a plan for his life. It didn’t involve math classes and final exams, and it definitely never included a graduate degree in engineering. Yet, this former Marine, who will graduate next month as the standard-bearer for the College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences before beginning grad school, found a journey worth taking. As a Lumberjack, he made connections with professors and at the Veterans Success Center, met his wife and found a new life path that honored his family history as much as his military career did.

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Pete Yanka sitting with office in the background

Fit it in a Minute
with Pete Yanka

DYK that NAU has THREE Veteran Success Centers? Whether you visit the Fieldhouse, The W. A. Franke College of Business or online, the centers provide an array of services that assist veterans from new student orientation to life after graduation. Director Pete Yanka tells us more. Can he fit it in a minute?

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Students on colorful stage reading from playbook

NAU Theatre presents Orlando

NAU’s Department of Theatre presents their second production of the season. Orlando is a coming-of-age story about a young writer in the court of Queen Elizabeth, adapted from the Virginia Woolf poem by MacArthur Fellow Sarah Ruhl. See the play Nov. 17-20 in the Studio Theatre—tickets available now!

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Week in review

Between an exciting Homecoming weekend and honoring veterans at a flag ceremony tonight, President Cruz Rivera celebrated Stew Fest and cheered the soccer team to a championship. He also met with national leaders, funding partners and the new president of Coconino Community College.

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