{"id":43296,"date":"2016-04-20T10:01:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=43296"},"modified":"2016-04-20T13:29:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:29:52","slug":"awards-presented-research-creative-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/awards-presented-research-creative-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards to be presented for research and creative activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Northern Arizona University faculty and students will be honored at the <a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/research\/rca-awards\/\">Research and Creative Activity Innovation Awards<\/a> presentation and reception.<\/p>\n<p>The event is being held 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, at the High Country Conference Center in the Agassiz\/Fremont Room.<\/p>\n<p>The awards are presented in recognition of the research, scholarly and artistic achievements of NAU faculty and students, and the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity of NAU innovations.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 awardees are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nicholas McKay<\/strong>, assistant professor, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability: Most Promising New Scholar<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Mommert<\/strong>, postdoctoral scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy: Most Promising Postdoctoral Researcher\/Scholar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Romy Ghanem<\/strong>, graduate student, Department of English: Most Promising Graduate Student Researcher\/Scholar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dave Wagner<\/strong>, associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences: Research Mentorship Award (tie)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chun-Hsing Jun Ho<\/strong>, assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Construction Management and Environmental Engineering: Research Mentorship Award (tie)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kees Jan van Groenigen<\/strong>, assistant research professor, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society: Most Significant Research\/Scholarly Work for\u00a0<em>Faster Decomposition Under Increased Atmospheric CO2 Limits Soil Carbon Storage<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bruce Reiprich<\/strong>, professor, School of Music, Most Significant Artistic\/Creative Work for\u00a0&#8220;Flowing Waters Caress Fallen Petal&#8221; and &#8220;Lambent&#8221; music compositions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/awards-presented-research-creative-activity\/\">Seven Northern Arizona University faculty and students will be honored at the Research and Creative Activity Innovation Awards presentation and reception. The event is being held 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, at the High Country Conference Center in the Agassiz\/Fremont Room. The awards are presented in recognition of the research, scholarly and artistic achievements of&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38,24,937],"class_list":["post-43296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-academics","tag-nau","tag-northern-arizona-university","tag-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43296","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}