{"id":24322,"date":"2006-10-18T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T19:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=24322"},"modified":"2014-02-10T12:22:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:22:22","slug":"spotlight-oct-18-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-oct-18-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Oct. 18, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\n<p>E-mail your announcements to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>, or use our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/news-tip\/\">online submission form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jean Boreen<\/strong>, an associate dean for the College of Arts and Letters, was elected to the board of directors of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents, a special interest group of the National Council of Teachers of English. Boreen has been a member of the assembly for 10 years. The group is comprised of teachers, authors, librarians, publishers, teacher-educators, students and others interested in supporting quality young adult literature.<\/li>\n<li>History professor\u00a0<strong>Eugene Cruz-Uribe<\/strong> appeared on the History Channel&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Where Did It Come From?\u00a0<\/em>series Oct. 12. Cruz-Uribe was featured on the episode &#8220;Ancient Egypt: Iconic Structures,&#8221; which examined the construction of Egyptian monuments, such as the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bruce Fox<\/strong>, director of the NAU Honors Program, was the guest speaker at Flastaff&#8217;s Coconino High School induction ceremony for the National Honors Society last week. His talk, &#8220;Dreams, Risks, and Responsibilities in the Honors Community,&#8221; addressed the ideals of the National Honor Society: scholarship, service, leadership and character.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daniel Kraker<\/strong>, a news director with KNAU&#8217;s Indian Country News Bureau, was in New York City recently to accept a RTNDA\/UNITY Award from the national Radio-Television News Directors Association to honor his outstanding achievements and ongoing commitment to covering the cultural diversity of the communities KNAU serves.<\/li>\n<li><strong>J. Judson Wynne<\/strong>, an NAU graduate student and cave research scientist with U.S. Geological Survey&#8217;s Southwest Biological Science Center, was recently elected into the Explorers Club as a Research Fellow for his cave research in Belize, Chile and northern Arizona. The Explorers Club honors individuals who combine exploration with scientific inquiry. For more information,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorers.org\/\">www.explorers.org<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Several faculty and students from the Department of Geology will be in Philadelphia Oct. 22-25 to present their research at the 118th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America.\u00a0NAU presenters and their topics include:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jason Raucci<\/strong>, M.S. geology graduate, professor\u00a0<strong>Ron Blakey<\/strong>\u00a0and associate professor\u00a0<strong>Paul Umhoefer<\/strong>\u2014&#8221;A New Map of Petrified Forest National Park with Emphasis on Members and Key Beds in the Triassic Chinle Formation&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Blakey\u2014&#8221;The 450-Million-Year-Long Fragmentation of Gondwana in Time (4D) and Space (3D): A Paleogeographic Pictorial&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Zahler<\/strong>, geology undergraduate, and Blakey\u2014&#8221;Evaluation of Stratigraphic Data-Management and Displays Using GIS and HTML: Example from the Permian Western Interior, USA&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Gripshover<\/strong>, geology graduate student, and Blakey\u2014&#8221;Regional Correlation of the Sonsela Member of the Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest NP, Arizona to Grand Staircase-Escalante NM, Utah&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Umhoefer and\u00a0<strong>Luke Martin<\/strong>, M.S. geology graduate\u2014&#8221;Miocene Extensional Tectonics as Recorded by the Horse Spring Formation, Longwell Ridges, Lake Mead, Nevada: Potential for 100-ky Time-Scale Basin Analysis Using a Multidisciplinary Approach&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rebecca Schmeisser<\/strong>, M.S. geology graduate\u2014&#8221;Description of a New Specimen of Plesiosaur and Implications of the Biodiversity of the Tropic Shale of Southern Utah&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Erin Young<\/strong>, M.S. geology student, and associate professor <strong>Abe Springer<\/strong>\u2014&#8221;Numerical Optimization of Readily Acquired Data to Determine Maximum Frost Depth and Freeze Thaw Frequency&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Springer\u2014&#8221;Vegetation and Invertebrate Species Diversity and Richness at Springs Ecosystems of the Southwestern U.S.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Candice Swaim<\/strong>, geology undergraduate\u2014&#8221;The Fate of Arsenic in Poultry Litter-Amended Fields, Northwest Arkansas&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kaitlin McCormick<\/strong>, geology graduate student\u2014&#8221;Environment of Deposition at the Excavation Site of the Dinosaur Nothronychus sp. 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Jean Boreen, an associate dean for the College of Arts and Letters, was elected to the board of directors of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents, a&hellip;<\/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-24322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322","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=24322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}