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How NAU researchers are tackling questions around AI

erj92 | July 22, 2026

Can health coaching from an AI chatbot create a similar sense of connection as coaching from a human? … Read more

Q+A with Dr. Charlton Wilson

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Last year, NAU’s College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) established its inaugural Advisory Board. … Read more

CHHS camps creating communication, confidence, and connection

erj92 | July 20, 2026

Do you know that NAU hosts over 17,000 campers at nearly 100 different summer camps every year? Camp Chit Chat and Reading Between the Pines are two of them, unique in that they transform therapy into adventure, giving children who struggle with communication the chance to build skills through activities… Read more

Grad student works with child at CSD camp.

Motivating Speech-Language Pathologists to Stay Where They Train

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School districts in rural communities continue to face shortages of speech-language pathologists (SLPs), limiting many students’ access to crucial care. A recent ASHA Leader article by NAU’s own Jeff Meeks, EdD, CCC-SLP, highlights how speech-language pathology assistants (SLPAs), working under the supervision of licensed SLPs, are helping expand access to care by supporting underserved schools… Read more

 NAU students awarded the Udall scholarship and the Udall congressional internship

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Two NAU students were selected from a field of highly competitive applicants as winners of the Udall Foundation’s scholarship and internship programs. The foundation supports students who are committed to careers related to the environment, Tribal public policy or Native American health care with up to $7,500 for educational expenses. … Read more

Mesa student awarded full ride scholarship

erj92 | July 16, 2026

Northern Arizona University Foundation, in partnership with Univision Arizona, announces that first-generation student Itzel Perez Lillos, ’30, from Mesa, Arizona’s Dobson High School, is the second recipient of the “Tu Futuro” (“Your Future”) scholarship program… Read more

Mesa student wins full ride scholarship and holds check.

Healing in harmony | The NAU Review

mtf228 | April 14, 2026

For people living with Parkinson’s disease, music is medicine. As founder of the NAU-based choir Mountain Tremors since 2016, Fé Murray has 10 years of proof. … Read more