{"id":29438,"date":"2014-03-07T14:26:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T21:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=29438"},"modified":"2014-03-10T08:37:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:37:33","slug":"spotlight-march-7-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-march-7-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: March 7, 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>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29490\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29490\" alt=\"viola awards\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/viola_trio-300x211.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/03\/viola_trio-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/03\/viola_trio.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ceramic artist Rena Hamilton, an adviser and success coach for Extended Campuses, created the 2014 Viola Awards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three members of the NAU community won awards at Saturday\u2019s Viola Awards, the Flagstaff Arts Council\u2019s annual celebration of excellence in the arts and sciences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Nicole Walker<\/b>, assistant professor of creative writing, received a Viola award in the \u201cStorytelling\u201d category for her book, <i>Quench Your Thirst with Salt<\/i>, a non-fiction memoir published in June 2013.<\/li>\n<li><b>Karin Hallberg<\/b>, coordinator of the Suzuki Strings Program at NAU and senior lecturer of string pedagogy and violin, was named the Viola \u201cArts Educator.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Former lecturer and current NAU affiliate <b>Shawn Skabelund<\/b> won in the Visual Arts category <a href=\"http:\/\/flagartscouncil.org\/2014\/02\/shawn-skabelund-virga\/\">for his work<\/a> \u201cVirga: The Hunt for Water.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall NAU had a strong showing at the reception, with several others having NAU connections garnering nominations for Viola Awards, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <b>NAU Art Museum<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/flagartscouncil.org\/2014\/02\/nau-art-museum-tangibles\/\"> in the Visual Arts category<\/a> for its book-as-art exhibition,\u00a0<i>Tangibles: Beauty and Purpose in the Art of the Book.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Several in the \u201cPerforming Arts\u201d category, including:\n<ul>\n<li>The <b>NAU School of Music<\/b> for its <a href=\"http:\/\/flagartscouncil.org\/2014\/02\/nau-school-music-richard-wagner-concert\/\">Richard Wagner<\/a> concert in October.<\/li>\n<li>Theater department chair <b>Kathleen McGeever<\/b> and lecturer <b>Season Ellison<\/b>, along with local singer-songwriter Tony Norris, for their <i>Grapes of Wrath<\/i>-inspired performance, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/flagartscouncil.org\/2014\/02\/tony-norris-season-ellison-kathleen-mcgeever-hard-times-mother-road\/\">Hard Times on the Mother Road<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The music CD <i>Flux<\/i> by Velocity Squared duo <b>Jonathan Bergeron<\/b>, associate professor of saxophone, and <b>John Masserini<\/b>, associate professor of clarinet.<\/li>\n<li>Theater director <b>Bob Yowell<\/b> for last fall\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/flagartscouncil.org\/2014\/02\/bob-yowell-spring-awakening\/\">production<\/a> of <i>Spring Awakening.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>English professor <b>Laura Gray-Rosendale<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/flagartscouncil.org\/2014\/02\/laura-gray-rosendale-college-girl\/\"> in the \u201cStorytelling\u201d category<\/a> for her book, <i>College Girl<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>School of Music Director <b>Todd Sullivan<\/b> was <a href=\"http:\/\/flagartscouncil.org\/2014\/02\/todd-sullivan\/\">nominated<\/a> for a Viola \u201cLeadership\u201d award.<\/li>\n<li><b>Max Doss<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/flagartscouncil.org\/2014\/02\/max-dass\/\">director<\/a> of the Center for Science Teaching and Learning, <b>Cathy Propper<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/flagartscouncil.org\/2014\/02\/cathy-propper\/\">professor<\/a> of biological sciences, and <strong>Kris Haskins<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/flagartscouncil.org\/2014\/02\/kris-haskins\/\">assistant project director<\/a> for the Southwest Experimental Garden Array, were nominated in the \u201cExcellence in Science Education\u201d category.<\/li>\n<li><a>NAU <strong>photojournalism students<\/strong> were <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/flagartscouncil.org\/2014\/02\/nau-photojournalism-student-group\/\">nominated<\/a> in the \u201cEmerging Artists\u201d category.<\/li>\n<li>Ceramic artist <strong>Rena Hamilton<\/strong>, an adviser and success coach for Extended Campuses, <a href=\"http:\/\/flagartscouncil.org\/2014\/03\/viola-awards-rena-hamilton\/\">created the awards<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Dennis C. Tanner<\/b>, professor of Health Sciences, published his 14th book,\u00a0<i>Simply Amazing: Communication Sciences and Disorders<\/i>. The book is based on Tanner&#8217;s 40 years of experience studying, teaching, researching and providing clinical services in the communication sciences discipline. He offers frank and informative discussion about the subject, including both conventional and offbeat theories of human\u00a0communication, unique and sometimes bizarre disorders, and intriguing stories about patients. The book is available on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Simply-Amazing-Communication-Sciences-Disorders\/dp\/1491724269\/ref=sr_1_22?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1394024995&amp;sr=1-22&amp;keywords=dennis+c.+tanner\">Amazon.com<\/a>.\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_29440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29440\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www4.nau.edu\/insidenau\/bumps\/2014\/3_7_14\/wynne_spot.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29440 \" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 3px;\" alt=\"Townsend's Big-Eared Bats\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/spotlight.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/03\/spotlight.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/03\/spotlight-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Townsend&#8217;s big-eared bat, photographed by Jut Wynne in a northern Arizona cave, is among species threatened by the westward advancement of white-nose syndrome. The disease has killed nearly 7 million bats in North America and it is advancing west, a concern for conservation biologists like Wynne. Click on the image to read his article.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li><b>J. Judson &#8220;Jut&#8221; Wynne<\/b>,\u00a0a biological sciences doctoral candidate andconservation biologist with the Colorado Plateau Research Station, recently published &#8220;Reign of the Red Queen&#8221; in\u00a0<i>The Explorers Journal<\/i>, published by the Explorers Club. Wynne discusses the crisis of white-nose syndrome affecting bat populations around North America and a multiyear study currently in progress in caves at the Grand Canyon-Parshant and Wupatki National Monuments. Read the article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.nau.edu\/insidenau\/bumps\/2014\/3_7_14\/wynne_spot.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-march-7-2014\/\">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. Three members of the NAU community won awards at Saturday\u2019s Viola Awards, the Flagstaff Arts Council\u2019s annual celebration of excellence in the arts and sciences. Nicole Walker,&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-29438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29438","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=29438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}