The NAU Review — How NAU is supporting veterans and military families

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

Nov. 9, 2026

We deliver top headlines to the Lumberjack community every Tuesday and Thursday during the academic year. For more, visit in.nau.edu/news.

Four men holding a flag that reads NAU Lumberjacks in front of a castle in France

NAU fullfills an 80-year promise

Four NAU cadets and an ROTC instructor spent part of their summer digging up a field in France, looking for the missing crew of an American bomber shot down during World War II. Their work is part of a national effort to bring home the flight crews who are still listed as MIA.

How one veteran is helping his community heal

After a grueling nine-month deployment in Afghanistan, Navy corpsman Skylar Wilcoxson used neurofeedback to heal his own trauma. Now, the psychological sciences student is leveraging the same brain-training therapy to help fellow veterans recover.

Putting speech therapy in the spotlight

For her Honors capstone, master’s student Taylor Clarkson fulfilled a lifelong dream of writing and illustrating a children’s book. Her goal? To ensure children with communication disorders finally see themselves represented in literature, while proving that speech therapy can be both fun and empowering.

Book cover for Ruby Rose To Speech She Goes! Written by Taylor Clarkson and Illustrated by Guy-Liliane Kuete and Taylor Clarkson

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How one veteran is helping his community heal

Putting speech therapy in the spotlight

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