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Follow this link for the Honors College’s Weekly Newsletter for the week of April 18, 2025

 

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4/14/2025

The Honors College represents NAU in the Regents’ Cup Speech and Debate competition April 12 as Karli VanderMeersch and Courtney Hoffman came in first place in the Oxford debate for the first time in history of the competition. Honors College students Trinity Hamilton, Sage Kaminiski, and Emma Prater also participated in the Regents’ Cup this year.

4/8/2025

The Honors College faculty are always engaging in unique projects such as this Pen Pal Project with seniors at The Peaks, a local senior living community.

3/31/2025

The Honors College supports our students wanting an International Experience through the Global Citizens Project, a collaboration between NAU’s Center for International Education, the Economic Policy Institute and Honors!

3/3/2025

Honors Assistant Teaching Professor Karl Krotke-Crandall and Honors students Korryn Penner, Rebecca Sandhu, Rowan Vance, and Sara Brinson work to preserve oral histories from Holocaust survivors. Read about their project here.

3/1/2025

Rob Wallace, Honors Associate Teaching Professor, has been nominated twice for the Viola Awards, once for Excellence in Education and another (as co-curator of the Interference Series) in the category of Excellence in Collaboration: https://creativeflagstaff.org/viola/2025-viola-awards/.

2/4/2025

Get to know Lenin Salcedo and learn about his inspiration to study jazz and chaos theory!

1/7/2025

May 2024 Honors College grad Callie Lowe receives prestigious National Association of Secretaries of State John Lewis Youth Leadership Award ! Congratulations, Callie!

11/8/2024

Honors College students have great opportunities for site-based learning! Check out HON 340 Finding Place in Northern Arizona!

8/29/2024

Meet Karli VanderMeersch, Honors College senior, and current ASNAU student body President!

6/28/2024

The Honors Native American Summer Research Program concluded, with five students completing the program and their individual research projects at a luncheon on June 27. Read about the program here.

6/10/2024

Cassie Bonah recognized as an W.E.B. DuBois Emerging Scholar to assist her biomedical science research and curate a Black Fashion Show! Included in this article is announcement about an unrestricted gift to the Honors College Fund by Laura and Gary Maurer

5/9/2024

Congratulations, Sam, on completing the Honors College curriculum and your NAU degree! Read about Sam’s NAU experience here!

4/15/2024

Congratulations to  our 11 Honors Gold Axe recipients as well as to Honors College grads Emma Anderson and Maria Emilia Machelor as recipients of the prestigious President’s Prize!

Honors College senior Cassie Bonah reflects on her time as a student at NAU and her Honors Capstone as she pursues medical school.

Honors College student Jadyn Fisher selected by AZ Governor Katie Hobbs as next student regent! Find more details about Jadyn’s path to ABOR here!

2/14/2024

Read about May 2023 Honors College Graduate Andrea Lopez’ Fulbright experience in Spain here!

1/26/2024

2024 marks another Grand Canyon Semester semester! Read all about the experience.

12/7/2023

Three NAU Honors College students were selected to participate in the Regents’ Cup, an annual speech and debate competition on March 23, 2024: Ayla Smith, Sage Kaminski, and Ryan Davis. Read about the Regents’ Cup here. Sage Kaminski took second place in 2023’s competition for Oxford Debate.

11/15/2024

Congratulations to 5 Honors College students for receiving the Gold Axe and to Beyonce Bahe as a President’s Prize recipient! Read more here!

9/19/2023

Michael-Anthony Rodriguez is the newest Flinn Scholar to attend NAU! Read about Michael-Anthony here!

8/31/2023

NAU and College Track are launching a cohort program at NAU’s Honors College, where College Track scholars who attend NAU will have tailored support throughout their postsecondary journey. Read more about NAU’s partnership with College Track.

7/26/2023

Honors College recent grad Andrew Svabik earns Fulbright

7/11/2023

Rebekah McNiel, a member of the Honors College and the Interdisciplinary Global Program (IGP) at Northern Arizona University, has been recognized for her outstanding achievements as the 2023 recipient of the prestigious Udall Scholarship for Native American Initiatives. 

5/12/2023

The NAU Honors College, Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (OURCA) and Naomi Lee, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, are proud to announce a new partnership with the Flinn Foundation to offer an on-campus high school summer research program starting in Summer 2024.

5/8/2023

Melissa Briggs has a lot of things to do after she graduates from NAU and the Honors College.

4/11/2023

Congratulations to Analise Thomas, President’s Prize recipient, and 12 other Honors College student award recipients!

2/21/2023

A new partnership between NAU’s Honors College and the Garcia Family Foundation will allow underserved students in need to earn the education they deserve.

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

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