{"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":"2026-11-12T12:21:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T19:21:55","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\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>, or use our\u00a0online submission form.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Larry Stevens<\/strong>, 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. 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 seventh overall for best online master\u2019s degree from BestMastersDegrees.com,\u00a0Greenest Colleges\u00a0for 2015 by BestColleges.com and the\u00a050\u00a0Best College Towns to Live in Forever\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":1,"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-spotlights"],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80394,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37800\/revisions\/80394"}],"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}]}}