{"id":43242,"date":"2016-04-20T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=43242"},"modified":"2016-04-20T10:22:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:22:20","slug":"spotlight-april-20-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-april-20-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: April 20, 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>T. Mark\u00a0Montoya<\/strong>,\u00a0assistant professor of Ethnic Studies, recently presented a paper titled &#8220;The Study of Monsters: Arizona\u2019s SB 1070 and HB 2281&#8221;\u00a0at the\u00a0Association for Borderlands Studies annual meeting in\u00a0Reno, Nev. Montoya also participated\u00a0in\u00a0a panel titled &#8220;Myths and Religion at Borders.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">NAU&#8217;s<b>\u00a0Interior Design <\/b>program\u00a0in Flagstaff and Scottsdale received accreditation from the Council for Interior Design. The certification is for six years. Accreditation enables NAU graduates to compete for jobs where graduation from a CIDA accredited program is preferred.\u00a0Student assignments in the accreditation exhibit included\u00a0renderings, illustrations, architectural plans, hand-built models, essays, completed assignments, exams, research and design solutions.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YWXN-4MRUh0\"><span class=\"s2\">View a virtual tour of the exhibit online<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-43286\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WSSA-Conference-20161-e1461172684616-1024x481.jpg\" alt=\"NAU-Yuma social work students\" width=\"359\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/04\/WSSA-Conference-20161-e1461172684616-1024x481.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/04\/WSSA-Conference-20161-e1461172684616-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/04\/WSSA-Conference-20161-e1461172684616-768x361.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/Yuma-Sites\/Arts-Sciences\/Degrees\/Social-Work\/Welcome\/\">NAU-Yuma social work<\/a><\/strong> students presented papers at the 2016 Western Social Science Association Conference held April 13-17, in Reno, Nev.\u00a0Presentation topics included deportees, migrants, pesticide poisoning among farm workers and school social work.\u00a0Students <strong>Myriam Hernandez<\/strong>, <strong>Juanita Cabrera<\/strong>, <strong>Ivan Gutierrez<\/strong>, <strong>Nubia Quintana<\/strong>, <strong>Patti Worthen<\/strong>, <strong>Vanessa Palomino<\/strong>, <strong>Mary Haunschild<\/strong>, <strong>Dan\u2019Elle Jones<\/strong> and <strong>Natasha Coonrod<\/strong> Faculty members <strong>William Pederson <\/strong>and <strong>Ruth Whisler<\/strong> also presented papers.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-43245 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PBL-State-e1461107540783-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"PBL members\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/04\/PBL-State-e1461107540783-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/04\/PBL-State-e1461107540783-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/04\/PBL-State-e1461107540783-1024x552.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>NAU\u00a0<strong>Phi Beta Lambda<\/strong>\u00a0members participated\u00a0in the business organization&#8217;s annual State Leadership Conference held at Arizona State University. Students in NAU\u2019s Extended Campuses Business Administration program competed in various events and earned eight first\u00a0place finishes, four second\u00a0place finishes and seven third\u00a0place finishes. NAU\u2019s chapter also received an award for outstanding state chapter, and member<strong> Scott Chilleen<\/strong> was elected state president for the 2016-17 term.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NAU Logging Sports<\/strong> took first place at the 2016 Stumpjumper Days competition hosted by Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell, Mont. The all-day competition featured 12 different men\u2019s and women\u2019s events, including the Axe Throw, Speed Throw and Choker Race. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fvcc.edu\/news\/fvcc-logger-sports-team-takes-second-place-stumpjumper-days\/\">Top finishers<\/a> can be found online.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43248 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/UCLAMUN-2-1-1024x714.jpg\" alt=\"NAU Model UN members\" width=\"324\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/04\/UCLAMUN-2-1-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/04\/UCLAMUN-2-1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/04\/UCLAMUN-2-1-768x535.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/>Thirty-two students\u00a0from NAU\u2019s <strong>Model United Nations\u00a0Club<\/strong>\u00a0recently traveled to Los Angeles to participate in UCLA&#8217;s Model United Nations conference.\u00a0<strong>Connor Mullins<\/strong>, <strong>Cezanne Rahner<\/strong> and <strong>Paul Sturmer<\/strong> received honorable mention awards, and <strong>McKenzie McLoughlin<\/strong> took home the Best Delegate gavel. This was the club&#8217;s final competition of the semester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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\/spotlight-april-20-2016\/\">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. T. Mark\u00a0Montoya,\u00a0assistant professor of Ethnic Studies, recently presented a paper titled &#8220;The Study of Monsters: Arizona\u2019s SB 1070 and HB 2281&#8221;\u00a0at the\u00a0Association for Borderlands Studies annual meeting&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-43242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43242","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=43242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}