{"id":50357,"date":"2018-02-08T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T15:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=50357"},"modified":"2018-02-09T10:23:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T17:23:55","slug":"student-spotlight-feb-9-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/student-spotlight-feb-9-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Student Spotlight: Feb. 9, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kudos to these students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>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>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50359\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-07-at-1.11.24-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50359 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-07-at-1.11.24-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"Ashley Taylor\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Taylor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ashley Taylor<\/strong>, Northern Arizona University track and field athlete, was named the Big Sky\u2019s Women\u2019s Track Athlete of the Week on Tuesday following her school record in the 800-meter dash at the Mountain T\u2019s Invitational this weekend. Taylor\u2019s record time of 2:05.92 is the ninth best in the country, the best in the Big Sky indoor season, and the third best time in the history of the Big Sky Conference.<\/li>\n<li>Best Delegate ranked Northern Arizona University\u2019s <strong>Model United Nations<\/strong> (UN) team in the <a href=\"http:\/\/bestdelegate.com\/fall-2017-north-american-college-model-un-rankings-and-recognition\/\">Top 50 Outstanding Delegations<\/a> of all North American university Model UN teams. NAU teams have participated in four national and international conferences during the 2017-18 year, winning awards at three conferences. The teams will attend conferences in San Francisco, Panama, and Los Angeles during the spring semester.<\/li>\n<li>First-year astronomy Ph.D. student <strong>Lauren Biddle<\/strong>\u00a0was the lead author on a paper with Lowell Observatory researchers Lisa\u00a0Prato, Joe Llama and Brian Skriff, which was published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. The <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1801.06234\">paper<\/a> looks at activity around a young star classical T Tauri star located in the Taurus star-forming region.\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_50358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50358\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-07-at-1.11.58-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-50358\" src=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-07-at-1.11.58-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"Junior Raquel Gonzales\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raquel Gonzales<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>Junior <strong>Raquel Gonzales<\/strong> was honored as WAC Diver of the Week on Tuesday following her career-best score of\u00a0\u00a044.30 in the platform competition at the NAU Quad Diving meet. This is the second career and first season honor for Gonzales.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/student-spotlight-feb-9-2018\/\">Kudos to these students \u00a0Do 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. Ashley Taylor, Northern Arizona University track and field athlete, was named the Big Sky\u2019s Women\u2019s Track Athlete of the Week on Tuesday following her school record in the 800-meter dash&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":[1415,1658,1243,621],"class_list":["post-50357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight","tag-astronomy","tag-student-spotlights","tag-track-and-field","tag-wac-diving"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50357","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=50357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}