{"id":47059,"date":"2017-04-20T13:16:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=47059"},"modified":"2017-04-24T11:39:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T18:39:39","slug":"gold-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/gold-axe\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU honors President’s Prize winners, Gold Axe recipients, Distinguished Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northern Arizona University announced its President’s Prize winners, Gold Axe honorees\u00a0and Distinguished Seniors at an awards banquet at the High Country Conference Center on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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2017 President’s Prize winners with NAU President Rita Cheng<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of the 45 Gold Axe winners, Cheyenne Adamonis<\/strong>, Amanda Crawford<\/strong>, Leigh Kimble<\/strong>, Matthew Nielsen<\/strong> and Vanessa Pomeroy<\/strong> were selected as President\u2019s Prize winners. This is the highest student recognition from the university. \u00a0After reviewing all the Gold Axe nominations, a university committee makes its recommendations to President Rita Cheng,<\/strong>\u00a0who then selects the President\u2019s Prize winners.<\/p>\n

An additional six graduating seniors\u2014Brianna Zgurich<\/strong>, Karely Rodriguez<\/strong>, Amy Wuthrich<\/strong>, Kiril Kirkov<\/strong>, Alyssa Kewenvoyouma<\/strong> and Cheyenne Adamonis<\/strong>\u2014were honored as Distinguished Seniors, an award given by the individual colleges at NAU.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery year we see seniors who work hard, give back to their community, act as leaders both on and off<\/p>\n

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2017 Distinguished Scholars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

campus and represent NAU in the best way possible, and we single out the best for the Gold Axe Awards,\u201d President\u00a0<\/strong>Cheng said. \u201cCongratulations to all of the recipients for the contributions they have made to NAU. I am excited to see all that you accomplish as alumni of this great university.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tradition of the Gold Axe Award dates back to 1933, a year after the student body adopted the axe as the symbol for Lumberjack athletics. It was then that NAU adopted the tradition of awarding small gold axe pins to outstanding members of the student body. To this day, the gold axe pin is considered the official emblem of the Associated Students of NAU and is presented each semester to recognize students\u2019 outstanding achievements and distinguished service to the university and the greater community.<\/p>\n

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Northern Arizona University announced its President’s Prize winners, Gold Axe honorees\u00a0and Distinguished Seniors at an awards banquet at the High Country Conference Center on Tuesday. Of the 45 Gold Axe winners, Cheyenne Adamonis, Amanda Crawford, Leigh Kimble, Matthew Nielsen and Vanessa Pomeroy were selected as President\u2019s Prize winners. This is the highest student recognition from…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":47163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}