{"id":28669,"date":"2014-01-24T14:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=28669"},"modified":"2014-01-24T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:49:30","slug":"in-the-spotlight-jan-24-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-jan-24-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Jan. 24, 2014"},"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>Faculty members from several departments in the College of Arts and Letters presented at the Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago, Jan. 8-12. English professor <b>Jeff Berglund<\/b> participated in a roundtable session, \u201cTeaching Native American Literature: Form, Politics, History,\u201d organized by the Division on American Indian Literatures. English professor <b>Donelle Ruwe<\/b> presented in a special session that she organized, \u201cTeaching the Long Poem by Nineteenth-Century British Women Poets.\u201d Her paper was called &#8220;Charlotte Smith&#8217;s &#8216;Beachy Head&#8217; and the Lyric Mode.&#8221; Music professor <b>James Leve<\/b> presented &#8220;Little Girls,\u00a0Big Voices: The Vocal Construction of Childhood in the Musical &#8216;Annie,'&#8221; in a panel called \u201cBroadway Babies.\u201d<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-28740\" alt=\"Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash book cover\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mbrown.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/01\/mbrown.jpg 429w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/01\/mbrown-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<li><b>Monica Brown<\/b>, English professor, discussed her latest bilingual children\u2019s book on NPR last month. The book, <i>Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash\/Marisol McDonald y la Fiesta Sin Igual <\/i>is a follow up to <i>Marisol McDonald Doesn\u2019t Match\/Marisol McDonald No Combina<\/i>. McDonald is an American girl with Peruvian and Scottish roots who revels in mismatched things, such as playing soccer dressed as a pirate princess and eating burritos filled with peanut butter and jelly<i>. <\/i>In the interview, Brown discusses being raised in a bilingual household and her interest in writing stories for children who are growing up in multi-ethnic, bilingual families. Listen to the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/12\/13\/250736058\/pictures-books-with-a-clash-bash-of-culture-for-kids\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Northern Arizona University has been selected to host the eighth International Conference on Mycorrhizas (ICOM8), which will take place July 26\u201331, 2015. The conference will bring as many as 700 scientists, land managers and industry representatives from across the globe to Flagstaff. Conference co-organizer <b>Nancy Johnson<\/b>, a professor in Biological Sciences and the School of Earth Science and Environmental Sustainability, recently <a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/nau-researcher-international-team-publish-analysis-microbial-markets\/\">co-authored a journal article<\/a> that received international attention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-jan-24-2014\/\">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. Faculty members from several departments in the College of Arts and Letters presented at the Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago, Jan. 8-12. English professor Jeff Berglund&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-28669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28669","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=28669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}