{"id":46047,"date":"2017-01-05T16:18:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=46047"},"modified":"2017-01-06T08:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T15:19:39","slug":"spotlight-jan-6-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-jan-6-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Jan. 6, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/p>\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><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-05-at-11.46.10-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46051 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-05-at-11.46.10-AM-207x300.png\" alt=\"Evil Children\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-05-at-11.46.10-AM-207x300.png 207w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-05-at-11.46.10-AM.png 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>Senior English Lecturer\u00a0<strong>Karen Renner<\/strong>\u00a0published a\u00a0book,\u00a0<em>Evil Children in the Popular Imagination <\/em>(pictured left). Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Renner argues the recent proliferation of stories about evil children demonstrates not a declining faith in the innocence of childhood but a desire to preserve its purity. &#8220;From novels to music videos, photography to video games, the evil child haunts a range of texts and comes in a variety of forms, including changelings, ferals, and monstrous newborns,&#8221; Renner said. In this book, she\u00a0illustrates how each subtype offers a different explanation for the problem of the \u201cevil\u201d child.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Northern Arizona University<\/strong> was selected as a recipient of the second\u00a0annual <a href=\"http:\/\/wcet.wiche.edu\/initiatives\/wcet-awards\/SANsational\">SANsational Award<\/a>\u00a0given by WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) State Authorization Network (SAN). This award recognizes outstanding efforts by SAN member institutions and organizations in developing a high-quality, comprehensive solution to a challenging state authorization issue.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/the-therapeutic-value-of-do-it-yourself-activities\/\">The therapeutic value of do-it-yourself activities<\/a><\/em> produced last year by <strong>Ann Collier<\/strong>,\u00a0assistant professor of psychological sciences, was recently featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/academicminute.org\/2016\/12\/academic-minute-best-of-for-2016\/\">The Academic Minute&#8217;s &#8220;Best-Of for 2016.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0In the story, Collier writes about the benefits of art as therapy in relation to emotional memories. Her research showed crafting, do-it-yourself activities, home arts (such as baking and gardening) and hunting activities are not only stimulating, arousing and engaging, but they are the best types of activities to fix a bad mood and deflect the potential health impact of that mood.<\/li>\n<li>NAU&#8217;s<strong> Campus Health Services<\/strong> <strong>Laboratory<\/strong> passed its\u00a0recent inspection and was honored with\u00a0the COLA Laboratory Excellence Award as a result of its\u00a0commitment to performing quality patient testing and overall laboratory practices. The Laboratory Excellence Award is achieved by complying\u00a0with all COLA essential and required criteria and demonstrating successful proficiency testing\u00a0over the course of the last three inspections.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicholas <\/strong><strong>Clement<\/strong>, Ernest W. McFarland Citizen&#8217;s Chair for the NAU College of Education, was recently featured in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gobles.org\/archive\/gobles-grad-honors-legendary-teachers\">Where Are They Now?<\/a><\/em>\u2014a story published by his hometown school district in\u00a0Gobles, Michigan. \u201cGobles Public Schools made me who I am and I owe them\u00a0a lot,\u201d Clement said. &#8220;In fact, they\u00a0led me\u00a0to NAU.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Professor of Journalism<strong> Martin D. Sommerness\u00a0<\/strong>edited the second edition of <em>Survey of Communication<\/em>, published by McGraw-Hill. Sommerness focuses his research and teachings on issues in mass media and society as well as mass communication law and ethics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-jan-6-2017\/\">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. Senior English Lecturer\u00a0Karen Renner\u00a0published a\u00a0book,\u00a0Evil Children in the Popular Imagination (pictured left). 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