NAU Professor To Be On “Jeopardy’s” Tournament Of Professors Tuesday

A professor at Northern Arizona University will be a contestant on the long-running television game show “Jeopardy” on Tuesday. She was chosen to compete on the Professors Tournament, that is hosted by Mayim Bialik. The tournament includes professors from 15 different colleges and universities around the country. Flagstaff’s very own Marti Canipe, a professor of elementary science at NAU, is one of the 15 professors who will be competing to win $100-thousand-dollars and earn a spot in the Tournament of Champions. She will go against John Harkless, an associate professor of chemistry at Howard University in Washington D.C. and Katie Reed, associate professor of musicology at Cal-State Fullerton. The show will air at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 3 in Arizona.