{"id":44630,"date":"2016-07-27T10:03:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T17:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=44630"},"modified":"2016-07-27T10:03:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T17:03:51","slug":"spotlight-july-27-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-july-27-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: July 27, 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>Two members of the NAU community were presented national awards at the Association on Higher Education and Disability Conference earlier this month\u00a0in Indianapolis.\u00a0<strong>Chris Lanterman<\/strong>, principal lecturer in the College of Education,\u00a0was awarded the AHEAD Professional Recognition Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement and contributions to the field of higher education and disability by AHEAD members.\u00a0<strong>Teresa Haven<\/strong>, accessibility analyst,\u00a0was awarded the Ronald E. Blosser Dedicated Service Award, which is the association&#8217;s highest honor. The award was established to publicly honor individual members who have given extraordinarily outstanding, selfless and quality dedication and service to the Association on Higher Education and Disability and whose service to the association has consistently been of the utmost quality.<\/li>\n<li>NAU alumnus and Marine Captain\u00a0<strong>Kyle Maschner<\/strong>\u00a0was selected by the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, for the 2017 air show season.\u00a0Maschner is a KC-130 Hercules pilot currently assigned to 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Okinawa, Japan. He was named C-130 demonstration pilot for 2017. Maschner graduated from NAU in 2006.\u00a0Read more on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=95730\">U.S. Navy&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Northern Arizona University recently presented diplomas to\u00a0the 2016 class\u00a0of 22 Chinese students from the <strong>Sino-American 1+2+1 Program<\/strong>, hosted by AASCU and CCIEE in Henan University, Kaifeng, China.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44587\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Sino121grad_2016-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Graduates in Sino 1+2+1 program\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/07\/Sino121grad_2016-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/07\/Sino121grad_2016-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/07\/Sino121grad_2016-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> It was the 13th graduation ceremony since the establishment of the 1+2+1 program in 2001. <strong>Liz Grobsmith<\/strong>, senior adviser to the president, <strong>Daniel Palm<\/strong>, director of global academic engagement, and <strong>Wang Feng<\/strong>, director of China Programs, traveled to Kaifeng, China, to host a special alumni reception inviting parents, alumni and colleagues from across China to recognize the dual-degree graduates and their accomplishments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eric Otenyo<\/strong>, professor of politics and international affairs, published two pieces on labor unions\u00a0and public law and administrative discretion in the <em>Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-july-27-2016\/\">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. Two members of the NAU community were presented national awards at the Association on Higher Education and Disability Conference earlier this month\u00a0in Indianapolis.\u00a0Chris Lanterman, principal lecturer in&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-44630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44630","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=44630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}