{"id":41286,"date":"2016-01-22T11:04:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T18:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=41286"},"modified":"2016-01-22T12:17:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T19:17:45","slug":"in-the-spotlight-jan-22-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-jan-22-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Jan. 22, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/h3>\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><strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-41291\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Cheer-and-dance-spots.jpg\" alt=\"NAU Dance and Cheer\" width=\"458\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/01\/Cheer-and-dance-spots.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/01\/Cheer-and-dance-spots-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/01\/Cheer-and-dance-spots-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/01\/Cheer-and-dance-spots-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/>NAU Dance<\/strong> and <strong>Cheer<\/strong> teams competed in the 2016 College\u00a0Dance and Cheer Championships at Orlando\u2019s Walt Disney World Resort. NAU Dance finished with their best performance in program history, placing third in Division 1 Jazz and fifth in Division 1 Hip Hop. NAU Cheer made it to All Girls Division 1 finals for the first time in more than\u00a0a decade and finished eighth overall. Both teams also competed in the World University Competition. NAU Dance took first place in Hip Hop and NAU Cheer placed sixth in the Premier All Girl Division.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Neumann<\/strong>, professor of Creative Media and Film in the School of Communication, had his experimental film screened at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/\">Poetry Foundation<\/a> in Chicago. The film, &#8220;Everywhere West: The All Purpose American Road Song,&#8221; is a collaborative effort between Neumann and Chicago poet Chris Green, who teaches at DePaul University. The film blends Green&#8217;s poetry and Neumann&#8217;s moving images in a high velocity journey across the American landscape. The film premiered as part of the Open Door Reading program at the Poetry Foundation on Jan. 19.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kurt Lancaster<\/strong>, associate professor in the School of Communication, was one of 14\u00a0filmmakers chosen for the Slamdance Film Festival\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalbolex.com\/2016-fearless-filmmaking-slamdance\/\">Fearless Filmmaking Showcase<\/a>. Lancaster\u2019s film \u201cTracking Alewives for the Passamaquoddy\u201d documents the migration of the alewives on the St. Croix River. The river was reopened to alewives in 2013 after being closed for 18 years, allowing for the passage of alewife migration and raising the hopes of the Passamaquoddy Tribe.<\/li>\n<li>Northern Arizona University\u2019s online degree program in <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/public-administration-justice\/degree-programs\/bachelors\/emergency-management\/\">Emergency Management<\/a> was ranked fourth in the nation by the <em>Emergency Management Degree Program Guide<\/em> in its list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emergency-management-degree.org\/best\/online-emergency-management-degree-programs-2015\/\">top 10 programs for 2015<\/a>. NAU\u2019s program includes two undergraduate degrees, a minor and a certificate specializing in emergency management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-jan-22-2016\/\">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. NAU Dance and Cheer teams competed in the 2016 College\u00a0Dance and Cheer Championships at Orlando\u2019s Walt Disney World Resort. NAU Dance finished with their best performance in&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-41286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41286","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=41286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}