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The NAU Speech & Debate team has participated in its first full-team event of the season at California State University Long Beach. NAU was represented by nine undergraduate students who competed in two different speech tournament against 16 other college and university teams. The team brought home two tournament championship titles, with sophomore Riley Smelkinson winning First Place in Novice Persuasive Speaking and sophomore Elliot Lovell winning First Place in Novice Informative Speaking.

Award Highlights

Riley Smelkinson

• First Place in Novice Persuasive Speaking,… Read more

Geri Hongeva (2001, Visual Communication) was recently featured in Native News Online. The profile highlighted her journey since graduating from NAU’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Read more

The Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council awarded a one-year grant, totaling $99,996, to the Institute for Human Development (IHD) to develop a pilot project to create an inclusive environment on college campuses for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). IHD plans to partner with Coconino Community College, providing professional development and support for coaches and peer mentors to work with students with I/DD and CCC personnel to leverage and expand current support structures for students, professors, instructors, and all… Read more

Michael McCarthy, an Associate Professor in the Social Work Department, is serving as Co-Investigator on a competitively-funded administrative supplement to the Southwest Healthy Equity Research Collaborative (SHERC) core grant. The study is funded in the amount of $374,906 from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging. The long-term goal of this study is to develop culture-based programs for underserved (Hispanic/Latino, American Indian, rural) family caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD). The goal of… Read more

Meredith Heller has received the NAU Award for Liberal Studies Excellence. Heller is an instructor in the Women’s and Gender Studies department where nearly 80 percent of her courses fulfill students’ Liberal Studies requirements. She designs her courses to make the invisible parts of culture visible to students, give them opportunities to explore many social and political contexts, and empower them to use discipline-specific methods to investigate the world. She has an outstanding record of developing well-written syllabi that… Read more