{"id":13291,"date":"2009-03-11T13:05:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=13291"},"modified":"2015-08-17T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:50:12","slug":"in-the-spotlight-mar-11-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-mar-11-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Mar. 11, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\n

E-mail your announcements to\u00a0Inside@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Associate professor\u00a0Jeff G. Leid<\/strong>, associate director for the Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, recently published \u201cBacterial Biofilms Resist Key Host Defenses,\u201d in the national American Society for Microbiology journal,\u00a0Microbe,\u00a0<\/em>Vol. 4. He also co-authored\u00a0The Role of Biofilms in Device-Related Infections,\u00a0<\/em>published by Springer. The book discusses the high number of hospital-associated infections related to biofilms on indewelling medical devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\"Wildlife<\/a>
Brian Dykstra, President of the Arizona Chapter of The Wildlife Society, presents a wildlife award to Erika Nowak.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Erika Nowak,\u00a0<\/strong>biology Ph.D. candidate, was awarded the Roger Hungerford Student Award by the Wildlife Society last month for her significant contributions to the management and conservation of Arizona\u2019s wildlife and habitat.<\/p>\n

Geeta Chowdhry<\/strong>, professor of politics and international affairs, co-wrote \u201cThe Geographies of Exclusion and the Politics of Inclusion: Race-based Exclusions in the Teaching of International Relations,\u201d published in the February edition of\u00a0International Studies Perspective<\/em>. Chowdhry also participated in three roundtable discussions, \u201cPostcolonial Feminist IR: A Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Critical Scholarship Recognition Panel,\u201d \u201cGender, Globalization and (In)Security: Making Connections, Challenging Contradictions and Exploring Alternatives,\u201d and \u201cFeminist Interventions in the Economic Crisis,\u201d at the International Studies Association Conference held in New York City in February. She also organized and chaired a panel, \u201cDiversity and the teaching of International Relations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary I. Dereshiwsky<\/strong>, professor of educational leadership, presented \u201cHow to Communicate with Students About Grades\u201d at the Multiple Assessments and New Ways of Grading web-based conference, sponsored by the Learning Resources Network. She also served as co-moderator of the conference.<\/p>\n

Michael Costelloe<\/strong>, assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice, co-wrote a study, \u201cPunitive Attitudes toward Criminals:\u00a0Exploring the Relevance of Crime Salience and Economic Insecurity,\u201d published in\u00a0Punishment and Society: the International Journal of Penology,\u00a0<\/em>Volume 11, No. 1.<\/em><\/p>\n

Matt Hurteau<\/strong>, an NAU post doctoral research associate, recently developed an equation to incorporate the risk of carbon loss due to wildfire in forests. The new forest carbon discount equation method could be used for a variety of business uses such as pollution-offset programs and determining the carbon market value of management actions implemented to reduce high severity wildfire.<\/p>\n

Undergraduates\u00a0Kaitlin Bundock<\/strong>, a dual anthropology and political science major and member of NAU’s Honors Program, and\u00a0Travis Risner<\/strong>, political science major, are ranked as the 17th debate team out of 822 teams in the United States, according to the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence. The duo has qualified in the first round bid process for the NPTE\u2019s 2009 tournament to be held March 21-21 at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. Associate professor\u00a0Jeff G. Leid, associate director for the Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, recently published \u201cBacterial Biofilms Resist Key Host Defenses,\u201d in the national American Society for Microbiology journal,\u00a0Microbe,\u00a0Vol. 4. He…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291","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=13291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}