{"id":50166,"date":"2018-01-18T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=50166"},"modified":"2018-01-18T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T19:04:38","slug":"student-spotlight-jan-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/student-spotlight-jan-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Student Spotlight: Jan. 18, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kudos to these 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\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>, or use our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/news-tip\/\">online submission form<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Web_Staffeldt_Torrente_AOTW-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-50167 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Web_Staffeldt_Torrente_AOTW-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Senior swimmer Alina Staffeldt and junior diver Christina Torrente \" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2018\/01\/Web_Staffeldt_Torrente_AOTW-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2018\/01\/Web_Staffeldt_Torrente_AOTW-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2018\/01\/Web_Staffeldt_Torrente_AOTW-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2018\/01\/Web_Staffeldt_Torrente_AOTW-1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senior <strong>Alina Staffeldt<\/strong> and junior <strong>Christina Torrente<\/strong> swept the WAC Swimmer and Diver of the Week awards on Tuesday. The wins were Staffeldt\u2019s first Swimmer of the Week award and Torrente\u2019s second Diver of the Week award for the season. Both awards were the third career wins for the athletes.<\/li>\n<li>More than 20 business and engineering students make up a <strong>Collegiate Wind Competition team<\/strong> that qualified for the competition in Chicago in May. The students from Management 435 joined with 18 engineering students to develop a research-supported business model for a marketable wind turbine. At the competition they will design, build and test a wind turbine, conduct market research, develop a business plan and site a wind farm. <a href=\"http:\/\/franke.nau.edu\/news\/nau_wind_turbine_team_team_moves_closer_to_a_windy_solution\">NAU is one of 12 teams selected<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/student-spotlight-jan-18-2018\/\">Kudos to these 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.\u00a0 Senior Alina Staffeldt and junior Christina Torrente swept the WAC Swimmer and Diver of the Week awards on Tuesday. The wins were Staffeldt\u2019s first Swimmer of the Week award and&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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-50166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50166","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}