{"id":44548,"date":"2016-06-28T16:23:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T23:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=44548"},"modified":"2016-06-29T10:38:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T17:38:50","slug":"spotlight-june-29-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-june-29-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: June 29, 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>Dirk de Heer<\/strong>, an associate professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, was interviewed by the Washington Post for his research on the <a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/whether-small-steps-elite-strides-treadmill-gains-edge-gravity\/#.V3MG0JMrKu4\">AlterG<\/a>, an anti-gravity treadmill. The\u00a0article, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/how-high-tech-tools-gave-this-often-injured-runner-hope\/2016\/06\/17\/c00cd784-2b55-11e6-9de3-6e6e7a14000c_story.html\">How high-tech tools gave this often-injured runner hope<\/a>,&#8221; cites de Heer&#8217;s research demonstrating that running on the AlterG allows individuals to run faster with less impact, a benefit that may be psychological as well as physical.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-june-29-2016\/\">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. Dirk de Heer, an associate professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, was interviewed by the Washington Post for his research on the AlterG,&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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44548","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=44548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}