{"id":12859,"date":"2011-02-10T09:59:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T16:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=12859"},"modified":"2013-02-25T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T17:25:04","slug":"in-the-spotlight-feb-10-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-feb-10-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Feb. 10, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<br \/>\nE-mail your announcements to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thomas Sisk<\/strong>, professor in the School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, and Leslie Ries, ecologist from the University of Maryland, were awarded the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program\u2019s Project of the Year for Resource Conservation and Climate Change. Sisk and Ries created a modeling tool for the U.S. Department of Defense for managing land use and natural habitats while promoting the missions of sustainability and conservation planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ken Lorek,<\/strong>\u00a0The Ralph M. Bilby Endowed Chair in The W.A. Franke College of Business, has an article forthcoming in the<em>\u00a0Journal of Theoretical Accounting<\/em>\u00a0titled, \u201cQuarterly Earnings Expectations: An Examination of the Idiosyncratic Case when Time-Series Models Outperform Analysts.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/in-the-spotlight-feb-10-2011\/horn\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12861\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-12861\" alt=\"Pause with purpose\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/horn.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/02\/horn.jpg 800w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/02\/horn-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a>A<\/strong><strong>my Horn<\/strong>, photography instructor in the School of Communication, has a solo exhibit on display at Brandy\u2019s Restaurant in Flagstaff through March 7. The exhibit, \u201cPause with Purpose, A Photographic Medley of Destinations,\u201d includes 25 of Horn\u2019s photographs from her travels. Meet the artist at an artist&#8217;s reception from 6-8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb.12. Brandy&#8217;s is located at 1500 E. Cedar Ave.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Senior mechanical engineering major\u00a0<strong>Jenny Baca<\/strong>\u00a0is featured in a scholar profile for NAU\u2019s mechanical engineering program in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NACME_AR_2010_FINAL.pdf\">annual report<\/a>\u00a0for the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-feb-10-2011\/\">kudos to these faculty, staff and students Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to\u00a0Inside@nau.edu. Thomas Sisk, professor in the School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, and Leslie Ries, ecologist from the University of Maryland, were awarded the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program\u2019s Project of&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":12862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}