Honors in the News
12/06/2022
Soon to be Honors grad, Madi Kimball, gains valuable experience through her NAU Externship Program. Read more about her experience here!
11/29/2022
Valerie Pietrczak, who graduates in December, has kept busy during her time at NAU. Learn more about Valerie’s time at NAU and in Honors, including her three internships, here!
11/15/2022
Four Honors students (Cailey Engelberg, Tiffany-May McCremens, Valerie Pietrczak, and Noa Stotts were named Gold Axe recipients at this Fall’s ceremony on November 15!
8/30/2022
Olivia Konig wins Cobell Scholarship and is set to embark on numerous other adventures! Read about Olivia’s goings on here:
6/20/2022
Beyonce Bahe is recipient of winner of the prestigious Udall Undergraduate Scholarship. Read more about Beyonce and her accomplishments here!
5/4/2022
Breezy Brock will be graduating from NAU’s Honors College this weekend with a bachelor’s in microbiology. In the fall, she’ll be starting school again on the other side of the country.
5/3/2022
Abby Royer will be graduating from Northern Arizona University’s Honors College this weekend with a bachelor’s in criminology and criminal justice (CCJ), and after pushing herself into new experiences throughout college, she’ll be trying to go further by serving in the Peace Corps.
4/13/2022
President’s Prize recipients, Gold Axe Award winners, Distinguished Seniors recognized at ceremony.
12/6/2021
At the age of 13, NAU Honors student Trevor Tuttle sat at a campfire at the base of the Superstition Mountains, listening intently to the lore of the Lost Dutchman Mine’s legendary, cache of gold.
11/17/2021
President’s Prize recipients, Gold Axe Award winners, Distinguished Seniors recognized at ceremony.
3/2/2021
NAU students passing between their afternoon classes might find a moment of serenity tucked between the pair of Social and Behavioral Sciences buildings.
On a warmer day, the divide is filled with bees and singing birds who also wish to exist among the lush vegetation of the university’s largest urban garden. But on Tuesday, the cool winter air, which had already snatched the color from the leaves, kept visitors away. Read more here! Honors student Sydney Rittershaus is doing great things
11/27/2020
As several COVID-19 vaccines near Food and Drug Administration approval, Northern Arizona University graduate Skylar Weber is personally cheering on the Pfizer and BioNTech candidate, which she has been studying closely since early this year.
When Weber’s planned internship at the University of Konstanz in Germany fell through as a result of the pandemic, the German and biomedical sciences major, who graduated this weekend, instead created a bachelor’s thesis on the novel coronavirus itself.
Starting this summer, Weber, who plans to become a physician, spent more than 540 hours researching coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2 using German and American scientific journals and newspapers, while also following the progress in the development of vaccine candidate BNT162, created by European immunotherapy company BioNTech. Read more! We are proud of Skylar Weber and her research on Covid 19
11/20/2020
When first-generation college student Denise Ocampo, 21, was preparing to attend Northern Arizona University, she first thought she would study business, taking after her parents who are small business owners in Ocampo’s hometown of Maui, Hawaii.
Following her unexpected success in a high school biology class, though, she altered course and instead headed toward the medical field, a decision further validated by her experiences while at NAU that earned her a President’s Prize, the highest award for NAU undergrads.
“My life philosophy is everybody has something to teach and everybody has something to learn. So when there’s always something you constantly have to be learning and just a constant flow of information, I really like that because I feel like things are always changing and innovating in medicine, so you’re never going to know everything,” Ocampo said. Read more about Denise here: Honors student Denise Ocampo is a President’s Prize Winner
11/20/2020
When 22-year-old Nicole Bratsch’s study abroad program in Chile was cut short in March as COVID-19 cases spiked internationally, the Northern Arizona University senior returned home — and went straight to work on the front lines of the pandemic.
From April through August, Bratsch was the COVID-19 data manager at Whiteriver Indian Hospital, located on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation about half an hour’s drive south of her family home in Pinetop.
In this role, she helped with COVID-19 contact tracing efforts, gathering and organizing patient data, giving twice daily reports on the situation to the contact tracing team, while also occasionally doing field work alongside hospital staff and trained community members. Together they located individuals who had potentially been exposed to a positive COVID-19 patient, gathered information about people they were in contact with themselves, took nasal swabs and brought the samples back to the lab for testing. Nicole Bratsch shares her experience with Indian Health Services.
11/14/2020
Having a Big is much like having a friend at school — except they can drive, says Chris Barrera, 9, a participant in Big Brothers Big Sisters of Flagstaff’s community-based mentoring program.
The local charitable organization operates on the idea that every child needs such support. Since it was established in 1967, it has been connecting children ages 6 through 18 with adults who can act not just as mentors but also as friends to these young community members as they progress through life’s challenges, including, most recently, a global pandemic. Read more about Hannah Gish here: Honors student Hannah Gish is making BIG impacts