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FLAGSTAFF – This week, U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., honored high school students from across Arizona who received her 2016 Congressional Community Service Awards. Kirkpatrick invited the students and their families to a Monday ceremony at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. 
FLAGSTAFF – U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., is pleased to announce District One’s winner and runners-up in the 2016 Congressional Art Competition. This year’s winner is …
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick visited the NAU campus over the weekend to discuss a grant she helped secure for NAU from the National Science Foundation.
The grant is for $525,000 and will take effect in May. Kirkpatrick says the grant will go towards research and to develop software that will facilitate collaboration between research projects at NAU.
FLAGSTAFF – U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., is pleased to announce that Northern Arizona University will receive a $525,725 research award from the National Science Foundation.
The award, which takes effect in May, provides $525,725 to fund the development of interactive software that will allow researchers to collaborate and share information to advance the study of microbes and microbiomes. This collaboration will dramatically increase the ability of researchers to classify and study one of the most abundant forms of life on Earth, single-cellular organisms.
Graciela is a working mom in Phoenix. Her job as a caregiver for special-needs children keeps her busy and pays the bills. And at home, her youngest kids – ages 12, 13 and 14 – are like most kids that age, eager to finish their homework and spend time with friends.
Jobs, school, the usual challenges of daily life. Graciela and her kids may not seem like a family in the middle of a political firestorm. But their struggle to be a part of the American Dream underscores what’s really at stake when it comes to the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick voted for the FY 2016 omnibus appropriations bill, H.R. 2029, which passed the House of Representatives with overwhelming bipartisan support, 316-113. This measure funds the government for FY 2016.
Let’s say your child has to miss school. First, a day or two. Then five days, eight days, or even 10. Not because she was sick. Not because he got into trouble. Only because of mud.
Yes, mud.
Let’s say your child has to miss school. First, a day or two. Then five days, eight days, or even 10. Not because she was sick. Not because he got into trouble. Only because of … mud.
Yes, mud.
Last winter alone, schoolkids in one Navajo Nation district missed 10 days of school because the dirt road that is their only route to school became impassable due to mud. Annually, Navajo students miss an average of 12 school days – what the federal government considers “chronic absenteeism” – just because their school bus routes are impassable.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., is pleased to announce that the Hopi Tribe in Arizona's Congressional District One will receive a $484,469 grant for its vocational rehabilitation program to help people with disabilities prepare to enter or remain in the workforce.