{"id":40208,"date":"2015-11-06T11:24:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T18:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=40208"},"modified":"2015-11-06T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T18:24:38","slug":"in-the-spotlight-nov-6-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-nov-6-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Nov. 6, 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<strong>Inside@nau.edu<\/strong>, 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_40207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40207\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/AASCU15166.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40207 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/AASCU15166-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"President Cheng \" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2015\/11\/AASCU15166-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2015\/11\/AASCU15166-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AASCU President Muriel Howard presents President Cheng with the Excellence and Innovation Award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Northern Arizona University\u2019s community-development partnerships earned the university a 2015 Excellence in Innovation Award from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. President <strong>Rita Hartung Cheng<\/strong> accepted the award for NAU\u2019s entry \u201cNorthern Arizona University as an Economic Development Collaborator: Developing Sustainable Models for Broad Based Highly Collaborative Successful Community Economic Development Partnerships\u201d at the association\u2019s annual meeting held Oct. 25 in Austin. The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aascu.org\/programs\/AwardSubmissions\/\">AASCU awards<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>recognize and honor member institutions that demonstrate excellence and innovation in their approach to achieving student success, regional and economic development, international education, teacher education, and leadership development and diversity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Neil Websdale<\/strong>, director of NAU\u2019s Family Violence Institute,\u00a0will deliver a keynote address at the upcoming conference \u201cDomestic Violence\u2026 What paths do we still have to walk?\u201d sponsored by Portugal&#8217;s General Secretariat of the Ministry of Home Affairs, in partnership with the National Republican Guard and the Public Security Police. Websdale will give a presentation titled \u201cDomestic Violence Fatality Review: Global Dimensions and Global Possibilities.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Creative Media and Film major <strong>Megan Babbitt<\/strong> has been named a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundance.org\/blogs\/news\/sundance-institute-selects-four-nextgen-native-american-filmmakers-for-2016-full-circle-fellowships\">2016 Full Circle Fellowship<\/a> recipient. The fellowship, sponsored by the Sundance Institute, is a year-long program that develops and supports young Native American filmmakers.\u00a0The fellowship will begin with attending the annual Native American forum during the\u00a02016 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Throughout the year, fellows will be mentored by independent filmmakers and creative advisors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-nov-6-2015\/\">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. Northern Arizona University\u2019s community-development partnerships earned the university a 2015 Excellence in Innovation Award from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. President Rita Hartung Cheng&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-40208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40208","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=40208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}