{"id":30635,"date":"2014-05-08T15:04:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T22:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=30635"},"modified":"2014-05-09T08:59:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T15:59:36","slug":"spotlight-may-8-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-may-8-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: May 8, 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><b>Paul Donnelly<\/b>, associate professor\u00a0of the comparative study of religion, has been awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award to conduct his sabbatical research project in India in the fall. Donnelly will study a Buddhist pilgrimage route in the Himalayas of northwestern India and live in the village at the start of the route. He will join pilgrims on the route over a four-month period, photo-documenting the trip and recording pilgrims\u2019 accounts along the way.\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_30650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30650\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/TeamPhoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-30650 \" alt=\"ASME Team\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/TeamPhoto.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/05\/TeamPhoto.jpg 1428w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/05\/TeamPhoto-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/05\/TeamPhoto-1024x793.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NAU&#8217;s American Society of Mechanical Engineers who participated in the Human Powered Vehicle competition are, from left: Phillip Kinsley, Alex Hawley, Matt Gerlich, Erik Nelson, Heather Kutz, Kevin Montoya, and team adviser Perry Wood.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>NAU&#8217;s <b>American Society of Mechanical Engineers<\/b>, right, traveled to San Jose last month to compete in the 2014 Human Powered Vehicle Challenge.<br \/>\nOut of 29 universities, NAU&#8217;s team of students placed second overall, second in innovation, second in design, third in endurance and brought home first place in the women&#8217;s sprint. Read more and see photos from the competition on the group&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nauhpvc.com\">website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-may-8-2014\/\">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. Paul Donnelly, associate professor\u00a0of the comparative study of religion, has been awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award to conduct his sabbatical research project in India&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-30635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30635","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=30635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}