{"id":27376,"date":"2013-10-18T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T21:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=27376"},"modified":"2013-10-18T15:27:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T22:27:39","slug":"spotlight-oct-18-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-oct-18-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Oct. 18, 2013"},"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?<\/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><b>Ophelia Wang<\/b>, remote sensing and GIS specialist in the NAU Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology, is a co-author of <i>Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora<\/i>, which has been published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/342\/6156\/1243092\"><i>Science<\/i><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Annette McGivney<\/b>, journalism senior lecturer, won a national magazine writing award for her story, &#8220;Arch Rival,&#8221; that was published in the Nov. 2012 issue of <i>Arizona Highways<\/i> magazine. The story, about a \u201cscary yet wonderful\u201d off-trail backpacking trip McGivney made to Royal Arch in Grand Canyon, won the bronze award for Best Travel Feature in the 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regionalmagazines.org\/index.php\/awards\/\">International Regional Magazine Association Awards<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>NAU\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/PPI\/\">Philosophy in the Public Interest<\/a>\u00a0has been selected as this year\u2019s winner of the American Philosophical Association\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apaonline.org\/?apa_pdc\">prize for excellence and innovation in philosophy programs<\/a>. The association noted the program is \u201ctruly indicative of the innovation, excellence and inspiration that we seek in an award winner.\u201d The award will be presented during the association\u2019s\u00a0annual meeting in December in Baltimore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-oct-18-2013\/\">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, or use our\u00a0online submission form. Ophelia Wang, remote sensing and GIS specialist in the NAU Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology, is a co-author of Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora,&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-27376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27376","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=27376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}