{"id":36563,"date":"2015-05-07T14:47:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T21:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=36563"},"modified":"2015-05-07T14:47:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T21:47:51","slug":"in-the-spotlight-may-7-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-may-7-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: May 7, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">E-mail your announcements to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\">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><strong>Laura Umphrey<\/strong>, professor in the School of Communication, and\u00a0<strong>Victoria Pocknell<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/Undergraduate-Research\/I2S\/\">Intern-To-Scholar student<\/a>, presented &#8220;Parental Responsibility and Respondent Anger, Sympathy, Willingness to Help Following Child Death&#8221; at the Western Psychological Association conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. \u00a0The\u00a0research will appear in\u00a0Issue 24 (3) of\u00a0<em>Illness, Crisis and Loss<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Northern Arizona University<\/strong>\u00a0was recently named conference champion in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/greenpower\/initiatives\/cu_challenge.htm\">2014-15 EPA Green Power Challenge<\/a>. Throughout the academic year, EPA\u2019s Green Power Partnership tracked the highest combined green power usage in the nation. The challenge, which was open to all U.S. colleges, universities and conferences, recently concluded with NAU at the top of the Big Sky Conference.<\/li>\n<li><strong>T. Paul Thomas<\/strong>, assistant professor of practice in the W.A. Franke College of Business, was featured in Wallethub&#8217;s &#8220;2015&#8217;s Best Cities to Start a Business.&#8221; Thomas participated in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-cities-to-start-a-business\/2281\/#t-paul-thomas\">Ask the Experts<\/a>\u00a0section where he offered advice to aspiring entrepreneurs on risk taking,<\/li>\n<li>Graduate student\u00a0<strong>Nick Aflitto\u00a0<\/strong>has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for 2015.\u00a0The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program funds outstanding graduate students in supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based graduate degrees, recognizing their demonstrated potential for significant achievements in their fields.\u00a0Aflitto\u2019s master\u2019s research investigates the use of sound as a viable treatment and management option for wood-infesting organisms. He plans to pursue a doctoral degree followed by a university teaching career while continuing research into insect ecology as it impacts forest management.\u00a0NSF Graduate Research Fellow Program Honorable Mention designees from NAU are\u00a0<strong>George Cummins<\/strong>\u00a0(MS Biology),\u00a0<strong>Brianna Finley<\/strong>\u00a0(MS Biology),\u00a0<strong>Rachel Rubin\u00a0<\/strong>(PhD Biology), and\u00a0<strong>Molly Shuman-Goodier\u00a0<\/strong>(PhD Biology).\u00a0Additionally, two NAU alumni also were selected as fellows this year and three alumni were designated honorable mentions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amy Schwartz<\/strong>, a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in biological sciences, was awarded the 2015 DAAD RISE Internship in Germany for summer 2015. She will be working with German researchers on the following project: \u201cAlternative to Animal Testing \u2013 Identification and Classification of Neurotoxic Chemicals.\u201d\u00a0RISE is a summer internship program for undergraduate students from the United States, Canada and the UK in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences and engineering. RISE offers unique opportunities for bachelor\u2019s students to work with research groups at universities and top research institutions across Germany for a period of\u00a0two to three months during the summer. RISE interns are matched with doctoral students whom they assist and who serve as their mentors.<\/li>\n<li>Junior\u00a0<strong>Yoko Chavez\u00a0<\/strong>received the Benjamin A. Gilman scholarship for spring 2015 to study at the University of Newcastle in Australia. Chavez\u00a0is majoring in exercise science and Spanish.\u00a0The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program offers grants for U.S. citizen undergraduate students of limited financial means to pursue academic studies or credit-bearing, career-oriented internships\u00a0abroad. Award recipients are chosen by a competitive selection process and must use the award to defray eligible study or intern\u00a0abroad costs.<\/li>\n<li>Graduate students\u00a0<strong>Ryan Lima\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Matthew Millar<\/strong>\u00a0were named\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wyssfoundation.org\/fellows-scholars\/scholars\/\">Wyss Scholars<\/a>\u00a0for 2015. Lima\u2019s current research at NAU is focused on generating economic values for the non-market watershed services provided by ponderosa pine forests in Arizona. Millar has extensive experience working as a wildland firefighter and Hotshot crew member in addition to holding a leadership position with the Yosemite prescribed and backcountry fire program helping to apply fire as a tool of restoration in the Sierra Nevada.\u00a0The Wyss Foundation\u00a0provides scholarships for graduate students who are pursuing careers in land conservation and management in the U.S. intermountain West. The students will receive partial tuition payments while they complete their master\u2019s degrees in environmental sciences and policy at NAU and a $5,000 summer stipend. The scholarships are awarded to select students committed to conservation at four universities across the nation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-may-7-2015\/\">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. Laura Umphrey, professor in the School of Communication, and\u00a0Victoria Pocknell,\u00a0Intern-To-Scholar student, presented &#8220;Parental Responsibility and Respondent Anger, Sympathy, Willingness to Help Following Child Death&#8221; at the Western&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-36563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36563","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=36563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}