Arts & Humanities

  • baglady 145
    Baglady TrousseauWorth 1000 Words | 5/7/2013

    When it came time for her senior capstone project, theater major and costume designer Kimberly Speer decided to design a dress out of recycled materials. She chose plastic...

    Read More
  • Denetdale ag
    Jennifer Denetdale: Rewriting Navajo HistoryResearch Profiles | 4/3/2013

    Jennifer Denetdale: PhD1991 MA in English; 1999 PhD in History Jennifer Denetdale is passionate about giving a voice to her people. When she began her PhD dissertation...

    Read More
  • Navajo rug ag
    Undergraduate Research at NAUResearch Video | 4/3/2013

    Undergraduate research at NAU: World's largest Navajo rug...

    Read More
  • Bach ag
    NAU Professor Designs Interactive Website for Bach’s St. Matthew PassionResearch News | 3/14/2013

    To commemorate Bach’s birthday, Tim Smith, professor of music theory at Northern Arizona University, has designed a “virtual performance” of the St. Matthew Passion. The...

    Read More
  • downard ag
    NAU Faculty Awarded NSF Grant in Ethics Education Research News | 12/17/2012

    Northern Arizona University (NAU) Associate Professor of Philosophy Jeffrey Downard is the principal investigator of a multidisciplinary project that has been funded by...

    Read More
  • Burning Necessity ag
    Controlled Forest FiresWorth 1000 Words | 12/4/2012

    Prescribed fires are a necessary part of a healthy forest. Forest thinning and controlled burns help prevent catastrophic wild fires. From a distance, the smoke from these...

    Read More
  • Pallister 145
    NAU Professor Contributes to the History of the U.S. Disability Rights MovementResearch News | 11/2/2012

    Associate Professor of History Linda Sargent Wood has been investigating Montana’s care of people with cognitive disabilities in the last half of the 20th century. Her...

    Read More
  • Posterity plant ag
    Dried Penstemon pseduospectabilisWorth 1000 Words | 10/26/2012

    This dried Penstemon pseudospectabilis is part of NAU’S Colorado Plateau Biodiversity Center (CPBC). The CPBC is dedicated to the documentation and conservation of...

    Read More
  • poetry aggregator
    Poems That Influenced Our PresidentsFeatured Story | 9/27/2012

    In this presidential election year, NAU Professor Emeritus Paul J. Ferlazzo (American Literature) has published Poetry and the American Presidency (Peter Lang Publishing...

    Read More
  • Nakai 145
    R. Carlos Nakai: Celebrating Cultural Differences through MusicResearch Profiles | 8/2/2012

    R. Carlos Nakai1979 BS in Applied Science; 1994 Honorary DoctorateNorthern Arizona University alumnus and Grammy-nominated recording artist R. Carlos Nakai has reached...

    Read More