Education

“Make no mistake, your state needs you and respects you!” Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham told tribal youth during the opening session of the first-ever indigenous youth summit held via Zoom June 11 and 12.

The top three graduates of Saint Michael Indian School were honored with the school’s legacy awards during the 71st commencement on June 5.

The University of Arizona and Diné College have been awarded a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to collaboratively train the next generation of Navajo water scientists.

Back in high school, Rachel Yazzie went to a college fair and was immediately discouraged.

Rhiannon Sorrell, an assistant professor in the Diné College School of Arts, Humanities & English, was selected as one of 15 fellows for the Rare Books School’s second cohort of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage.