Upset City

Eclipse 2017 (Aug 21st):

Article describing NAU student’s and faculty’s observations during the partial solar eclipse that occurred on Aug 21st:

http://news.nau.edu/eclipse-story/#.WagjZbAUnxg
Science:
http://news.nau.edu/science-engineering-day/#.WagooLAUnxg
Shear awesomeness in this one, as this article talks about NAU’s Science and Engineering Day (Sept. 23rd).  This coincides with the Annual Flagstaff Festival of Science (Sept 22nd – Oct. 1st).

Football:

2 days until NAU kicks off the 2017 season at UofA!  Go Jacks!!!

http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/ncaaf/asu/2017/08/28/new-mexico-state-partied-1999-asus-expense/605319001/
http://www.nauathletics.com/news/2012/9/8/9_8_2012_614.aspx?path=football
Just in case you are thinking that there’s no way the Jacks can take down the Cats, I found the above article, which, although it doesn’t involve either team, and NMSU is (technically) a FBS football program, shows that upsets do happen. 
The second article is a little closer to home.  It talks about NAU’s upset of UNLV (FBS football team) in 2012.
Huge upsets can happen.  Go Jacks!!!
Women’s Soccer:

The Lady Jacks took down Canyon University 1-0, and will face the Detroit Titans tomorrow, and Nevada on Sunday.  Go Jacks!!!
Volleyball:
Volleyball started the season (and the Miami Best Western Sycamore Inn Invitational) off strong with a victory (3-2) over Southern Illinois, but then dropped 2 straight to Western Kentucky (0-3) and Miami, Oh (1-3). Tomorrow, they will begin the Hampton Inn Jackrabbit Invitational in Brookings, SD against Valparaiso (Fri), CSU Bakersfield (Sat) and South Dakota St (Sat).  Go Jacks!!!!

Cross Country:
2 days until the Defending NCAA Champions begin their title defense at the George Kyte Classic in Flagstaff.  Go Jacks!!!
http://www.nauathletics.com/news/2017/7/31/lumberjack-cross-country-releases-2017-schedule.aspx

Men’s Basketball:

http://azdailysun.com/sports/local/full-schedule-announced-for-nau-men-s-basketball/article_9c47da29-1fd8-5699-878d-467f4d253722.html

This article talks about the release of the schedule for the Men’s Basketball this upcoming season.

Fall 2017 Sports Season:

Football – 0-0 (0-0)

Soccer – 2-1-0 (0-0-0)

Volleyball – 1-2 (0-0) 

Cross Country (Men’s) – Defending NCAA National Champions!

Cross Country (Women’s) –

Spring Sports Season:

Tennis (Men) 15-8 (10-2)

Tennis (Women) 18-5 (10-1)

Golf – Anokhina – 1st at the Big Sky Conference Championships

Track and Field:

Hammer Throw (Women) Andersen: 2nd in NCAA

Hammer Throw (Men) Keenan: 11th in NCAA

10,000 meter (Men): Baxter: 7th in NCAA

Winter Sports Season:

Basketball (Men) 9-23 (6-13)

Basketball (Women) 9-21 (5-13)

Swimming and Diving – Kurach – 49th at NCAA Championships

Fall Sports Season:

Football – 5-6 (4-6)

Soccer – 10-7-5 (5-2-3) 2nd Big Sky

Volleyball – 24-8 (12-4)  2nd Big Sky

Cross Country (Men’s) – NCAA National Champions!

Cross Country (Women’s) – 1st in Big Sky

Let’s open up the thread, and remember to keep up the great work, Jacks!!!

For any of you who are out there reading this, would you like for these articles to be posted as blogs, or as separate websites?  I’m trying to get a feel for how to keep going here.  Also, if you’d like to contribute to this blog, let me know in the comments section!

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Kick Off

Eclipse 2017 (Aug 21st):

Article related to the partial solar eclipse that occurred on Aug 21st:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/total-solar-eclipse-looked-amazing-221903357.html

Found this article and thought I would share.  There was a lot of info about the eclipse from Earth, but figured a from-space point of view would be something a little different.

Off Campus/On Campus Life:

http://news.nau.edu/flagstaff-named-no-1-small-college-town-great-quality-life/?utm_content=bufferca71c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#.WZ96PhlMFAg

Great news about NAU and Flagstaff as the school year kicks off!  Way to go Jacks!!!

Football:

9 days until NAU kicks off the 2017 season at UofA!  Go Jacks!!!

Women’s Soccer:

The Lady Jacks split their first 2 games and will face Grand Canyon University tomorrow.  Go Jacks!!!
Volleyball:
1 day until NAU takes on Southern Illinois!  Go Jacks!!!!

Cross Country:
9 days until the Defending NCAA Champions begin their title defense in Flagstaff.  Go Jacks!!!
http://www.nauathletics.com/news/2017/7/31/lumberjack-cross-country-releases-2017-schedule.aspx

Men’s Basketball:

http://azdailysun.com/sports/local/full-schedule-announced-for-nau-men-s-basketball/article_9c47da29-1fd8-5699-878d-467f4d253722.html

This article talks about the release of the schedule for the Men’s Basketball this upcoming season.

Fall Sports Season:

Football – 0-0 (0-0)

Soccer – 1-1-0 (0-0-0) 2nd Big Sky

Volleyball – 0-0 (0-0)  2nd Big Sky

Cross Country (Men’s) – Defending NCAA National Champions!

Cross Country (Women’s) –

Spring Sports Season:

Tennis (Men) 15-8 (10-2)

Tennis (Women) 18-5 (10-1)

Golf – Anokhina – 1st at the Big Sky Conference Championships

Track and Field:

Hammer Throw (Women) Andersen: 2nd in NCAA

Hammer Throw (Men) Keenan: 11th in NCAA

10,000 meter (Men): Baxter: 7th in NCAA

Winter Sports Season:

Basketball (Men) 9-23 (6-13)

Basketball (Women) 9-21 (5-13)

Swimming and Diving – Kurach – 49th at NCAA Championships

Fall Sports Season:

Football – 5-6 (4-6)

Soccer – 10-7-5 (5-2-3) 2nd Big Sky

Volleyball – 24-8 (12-4)  2nd Big Sky

Cross Country (Men’s) – NCAA National Champions!

Cross Country (Women’s) – 1st in Big Sky

Let’s open up the thread, and remember to keep up the great work, Jacks!!!

For any of you who are out there reading this, would you like for these articles to be posted as blogs, or as separate websites?  I’m trying to get a feel for how to keep going here.  Also, if you’d like to contribute to this blog, let me know in the comments section!

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A Plague Upon Us

Off Campus Life/On Campus Life:

http://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/index.ssf/2017/08/plague-carrying_fleas_confirme.html

http://www.kyma.com/news/fleas-test-positive-for-the-plague-in-two-arizona-counties/605666582

Both of these articles are pretty clear, the Bubonic Plague (yes, the same plague that ravaged Europe and Asia almost 700 years ago), is back in Northern Arizona and New Mexico.  Navajo and Coconino Counties in Arizona have produced plague positive fleas, according to tests performed by NAU’s very own Center for Pathogen and Microbiome Institute.  Try to stay plague free out there, and if you have flu-like symptoms, go see a doctor.

Eclipse 2017 (4 days):

Articles related to the partial solar eclipse on Aug 21st:

https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/safety

https://www.arizonahighways.com/blog/eclipse-2017-how-see-it-arizona

http://fox8.com/2017/07/23/nasa-wants-all-of-us-to-be-citizen-scientists-during-august-solar-eclipse/

http://www.wmdt.com/solar-eclipse/how-to-make-your-own-solar-eclipse-viewer-from-a-cereal-box/590439506

Football:

15 days until NAU kicks off the 2017 season at UofA!  Go Jacks!!!

Women’s Soccer:
1 day until NAU takes on the Texas State Bobcats in San Marcos, TX!  Go Jacks!!!

http://www.nauathletics.com/news/2017/6/12/6_12_2017_533.aspx

http://www.nauathletics.com/news/2017/8/9/soccer-preseasonpoll.aspx

Volleyball:
8 days until NAU takes on Southern Illinois!  Go Jacks!!!!

Cross Country:
16 days until the Defending NCAA Champions begin their title defense in Flagstaff.  Go Jacks!!!

http://www.nauathletics.com/news/2017/7/31/lumberjack-cross-country-releases-2017-schedule.aspx

Men’s Basketball:

http://azdailysun.com/sports/local/full-schedule-announced-for-nau-men-s-basketball/article_9c47da29-1fd8-5699-878d-467f4d253722.html

This article talks about the release of the schedule for the Men’s Basketball this upcoming season.

Spring Sports Season:

Tennis (Men) 15-8 (10-2)

Tennis (Women) 18-5 (10-1)

Golf – Anokhina – 1st at the Big Sky Conference Championships

Track and Field:

Hammer Throw (Women) Andersen: 2nd in NCAA

Hammer Throw (Men) Keenan: 11th in NCAA

10,000 meter (Men): Baxter: 7th in NCAA

Winter Sports Season:

Basketball (Men) 9-23 (6-13)

Basketball (Women) 9-21 (5-13)

Swimming and Diving – Kurach – 49th at NCAA Championships

Fall Sports Season:

Football – 5-6 (4-6)

Soccer – 10-7-5 (5-2-3) 2nd Big Sky

Volleyball – 24-8 (12-4)  2nd Big Sky

Cross Country (Men’s) – NCAA National Champions!

Cross Country (Women’s) – 1st in Big Sky

Let’s open up the thread, and remember to keep up the great work, Jacks!!!

For any of you who are out there reading this, would you like for these articles to be posted as blogs, or as separate websites?  I’m trying to get a feel for how to keep going here.  Also, if you’d like to contribute to this blog, let me know in the comments section!

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Counting Down

It’s not very often that we get a countdown to a big science event, but this year, we get a partial solar eclipse on August 21st (for most of us in the USA).

Off Campus Life:

http://azdailysun.com/news/local/state-and-regional/arizona-colleges-strive-to-increase-state-s-graduation-rate/article_13a7e91a-ce38-5a6c-9587-e623a5bff639.html

This article discusses the CCC2NAU program, which is NAU’s piece of the Arizona Board of Regents’ (ABoR) attempt to raise the statewide graduation rate (the rate in a 2015 statement was 59.8% combined for all the AZ schools, and the ABoR’s goal is to raise the rate to 65.6% by 2020).

Science:

http://news.nau.edu/land-carbon-sink/#.WYx0v7AUnxg

This articles describes NAU’s  Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (Ecoss) shares its results of a study on how droughts can impact plant life (and ecosystem) resiliency long after the drought has ended.

Eclipse 2017 (11 days to go):

Articles related to the partial solar eclipse on Aug 21st:

https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/safety

https://www.arizonahighways.com/blog/eclipse-2017-how-see-it-arizona

http://fox8.com/2017/07/23/nasa-wants-all-of-us-to-be-citizen-scientists-during-august-solar-eclipse/

http://www.wmdt.com/solar-eclipse/how-to-make-your-own-solar-eclipse-viewer-from-a-cereal-box/590439506

Football:

22 days until NAU kicks off the 2017 season at UofA!  Go Jacks!!!

Women’s Soccer:
8 days until NAU takes on the Texas State Bobcats in San Marcos, TX!  Go Jacks!!!

http://www.nauathletics.com/news/2017/6/12/6_12_2017_533.aspx

http://www.nauathletics.com/news/2017/8/9/soccer-preseasonpoll.aspx

Men’s Basketball:

http://azdailysun.com/sports/local/full-schedule-announced-for-nau-men-s-basketball/article_9c47da29-1fd8-5699-878d-467f4d253722.html

This article talks about the release of the schedule for the Men’s Basketball this upcoming season.

Spring Sports Season:

Tennis (Men) 15-8 (10-2)

Tennis (Women) 18-5 (10-1)

Golf – Anokhina – 1st at the Big Sky Conference Championships

Track and Field:

Hammer Throw (Women) Andersen: 2nd in NCAA

Hammer Throw (Men) Keenan: 11th in NCAA

10,000 meter (Men): Baxter: 7th in NCAA

Winter Sports Season:

Basketball (Men) 9-23 (6-13)

Basketball (Women) 9-21 (5-13)

Swimming and Diving – Kurach – 49th at NCAA Championships

Fall Sports Season:

Football – 5-6 (4-6)

Soccer – 10-7-5 (5-2-3) 2nd Big Sky

Volleyball – 24-8 (12-4)  2nd Big Sky

Cross Country (Men’s) – NCAA National Champions!

Cross Country (Women’s) – 1st in Big Sky

Let’s open up the thread, and remember to keep up the great work, Jacks!!!

For any of you who are out there reading this, would you like for these articles to be posted as blogs, or as separate websites?  I’m trying to get a feel for how to keep going here.  Also, if you’d like to contribute to this blog, let me know in the comments section!

Follow @EPZombie51

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