{"id":32140,"date":"2014-09-05T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T18:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=32140"},"modified":"2014-09-05T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T20:07:31","slug":"spotlight-sept-5-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-sept-5-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Sept. 5, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"color: #000000;\">E-mail your announcements to\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #003e7e;\" href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>, or use our\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #003e7e;\" href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/news-tip\/\">online submission form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Freshman<strong>\u00a0Kendell Holmes<\/strong>\u00a0is among 10\u00a0winners of the \u201cI\u2019m First Scholarship,\u201d awarded by nonprofit Center for Student Opportunity. The $4,000 scholarship is awarded to first-generation college students attending four-year colleges that partner with the center.\u00a0As a scholarship winner, Holmes\u00a0will share his college experiences and give advice to younger students as a blogger on\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #003e7e;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imfirst.org\/stories\/\">imfirst.org<\/a>, an online community celebrating and supporting first-generation college students. Holmes\u00a0joins 24 upperclassmen who won the scholarship in previous years and continue to serve as student bloggers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bill Carter<\/strong>, an assistant professor of practice in the School of Communication, had a blog published in the <em>Huffington Post<\/em>. Titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/bill-carter\/when-the-levee-breaks_b_5725126.html?utm_hp_ref=green\">&#8220;When the Levee Breaks,&#8221;<\/a> Carter discusses the environmental\u00a0concerns following the dam breach at Mount Polley Mine in British Columbia.\u00a0Carter also addresses the demand for metal in his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Boom-Bust-Story-About-Copper\/dp\/1936182564\"><em>Boom, Bust, Boom:<\/em> <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Boom-Bust-Story-About-Copper\/dp\/1936182564\">A Story About Copper, the Metal That Runs the World<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-sept-5-2014\/\">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. Freshman\u00a0Kendell Holmes\u00a0is among 10\u00a0winners of the \u201cI\u2019m First Scholarship,\u201d awarded by nonprofit Center for Student Opportunity. The $4,000 scholarship is awarded to first-generation college students attending four-year&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"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-32140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32140","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}