{"id":32952,"date":"2014-10-10T13:22:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T20:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=32952"},"modified":"2014-10-10T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T20:42:54","slug":"spotlight-oct-10-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-oct-10-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Oct. 10, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/p>\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\"><strong>Inside@nau.edu<\/strong><\/a>, or use our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/news-tip\/\"><strong>online submission form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32964\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/GanleyAward.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32964\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/GanleyAward.jpg\" alt=\"GanleyAward\" width=\"225\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/10\/GanleyAward.jpg 611w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/10\/GanleyAward-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathleen Ganley, center, poses with her Physical Therapist of the Year Award alongside her son and James Sieveke, a past recipient of the award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Kathleen Ganley<\/strong>,\u00a0director of <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/CHHS\/Physical-Therapy\/Degree-Overview\/\">NAU Physical Therapy and Athletic Training<\/a>, was named the 2014 Arizona Physical Therapist of the Year by the Arizona Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association. The award was presented at the Arizona Physical Therapy Association&#8217;s annual fall conference.<\/li>\n<li>Professors <strong>Brant Short<\/strong> and <strong>Dayle Hardy-Short<\/strong> from the School of Communication had their article \u201cBless Us with Tears\u2026Bless Us with Anger:\u00a0A Rhetorical Analysis of Bishop Gene Robinson&#8217;s Inaugural Prayer&#8221; published in the spring 2014 issue of <em>The Journal of Communication and Religion<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>President <strong>Rita Cheng<\/strong> has appointed <strong>Shari Miller<\/strong>, compliance manager in Extended Campuses, to serve as the NAU representative to the Arizona State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement Council. The council will be responsible for administering SARA policies and standards for interstate offering of distance education programs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141006_070452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-32880\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20141006_070452.jpg\" alt=\"20141006_070452\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/10\/20141006_070452.jpg 1003w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/10\/20141006_070452-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>Physician assistant professor <strong>Michelle DiBaise <\/strong>and<strong> NAU physician assistant students<\/strong> were featured on 12 News in Phoenix to celebrate National Physician Assistant Week, Oct. 6-12, a national movement to increase awareness of the profession as well as the importance of a healthy lifestyle. Watch NAU students explain the ins and outs of the emerging field to reporter James Quinones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rr-R-N-84Ew&amp;feature=youtu.be\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Karin Wadsack<\/strong>, project director for the Institute for Sustainable Energy Solutions, was recently interviewed by KNAU. Wadsack <a href=\"http:\/\/knau.org\/post\/arizona-universities-collaborate-energy-research\">discussed<\/a> the new energy policy that will bring together the state\u2019s three universities to find solutions to Arizona\u2019s future energy needs. The collaborative project also will involve the renewable energy industry, businesses, national laboratories and non-profits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-oct-10-2014\/\">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. Kathleen Ganley,\u00a0director of NAU Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, was named the 2014 Arizona Physical Therapist of the Year by the Arizona Chapter of the American Physical&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-32952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952","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=32952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}