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Women make up nearly half of the people working in the life sciences in the United States, including biology, conservation, and wildlife professions. Even so, they face discrimination and harassment. Now, a new book gathers dozens of stories from female wildlife biologists to highlight the challenges they face. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with coeditor Carol Chambers of Northern Arizona University about the project.
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The Arizona Department of Health Services has awarded nearly $6.5 million to Northern Arizona University to help alleviate the state’s nursing shortage.
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A storytellers event called "Beyond Climate Breakdown" seeks to share the personal impacts of a warming planet.
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Northern Arizona University has canceled classes for a second day Wednesday because of the major winter storms that’ve impacted the region in recent days.
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The fate of a ballot measure that would let undocumented Arizona residents pay in-state tuition at state universities remains tight.
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Voters will soon decide whether undocumented Arizona residents can receive in-state tuition at state universities.
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A new Netflix documentary tells the story of the letters laced with anthrax that were sent through the U.S. mail just after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. The anthrax letters ultimately killed five Americans. The film features Northern Arizona University professor Paul Keim, whose research revealed the anthrax wasn’t part of a foreign terrorist plot but sourced from an American laboratory. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with Keim about the role of science in the high-profile case.
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A research collaborative at Northern Arizona University has received a $21 million grant to continue its work on health equity and disparity in the Southwest. The Center for Health Equity Research received a five-year grant from the National Health Institute’s Minority Health Disparities division.
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Some Flagstaff businesses surrounding the campus of Northern Arizona University say they’re seeing an increase in non-patrons using their customer parking lots.
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A rare meteorite known as “Black Beauty” was blasted off the surface of Mars by an asteroid impact and landed in the Sahara Desert of North Africa. It’s the oldest known Martian meteorite, and also the first to be linked to the crater that created it. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with a member of the science team that traced Black Beauty’s origins. Valerie Payré is a former postdoctoral scholar at Northern Arizona University, now at the University of Iowa.