{"id":37800,"date":"2015-07-10T09:15:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T16:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=37800"},"modified":"2015-07-10T09:15:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T16:15:02","slug":"in-the-spotlight-july-10-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-july-10-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: July 10, 2015"},"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><strong>Larry Stevens<\/strong>, professor of psychological sciences, was featured in the July 8 edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/academicminute.org\/2015\/07\/larry-stevens-nau-chocolate-brain-boost\/\">The Academic Minute<\/a> for his research on the <a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/eat-dark-chocolate-to-beat-the-midday-slump-nau-study-says\/#.VZ_tvuthKS0\">brain-boosting powers of dark chocolate<\/a>. Stevens\u2019 study is the first to examine the acute effects of chocolate on attentional characteristics of the brain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NAU<\/strong> recently earned accolades on three\u00a0independent online rankings including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestmastersdegrees.com\/best-online-masters-degree-programs-2015\">seventh overall for best online master\u2019s degree<\/a> from BestMastersDegrees.com,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestcolleges.com\/features\/greenest-universities\/\">Greenest Colleges\u00a0for 2015<\/a> by BestColleges.com and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegeranker.com\/ranking\/best-college-towns\/?utm_content=buffer23c22&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">the\u00a050\u00a0Best College Towns to Live in Forever<\/a>\u00a0by College Ranker.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-july-10-2015\/\">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. Larry Stevens, professor of psychological sciences, was featured in the July 8 edition of The Academic Minute for his research on the brain-boosting powers of dark chocolate.&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-37800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37800","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=37800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}