{"id":50872,"date":"2018-03-29T08:54:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T15:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=50872"},"modified":"2018-03-29T08:54:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T15:54:39","slug":"alumni-spotlight-march-30-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/alumni-spotlight-march-30-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Alumni Spotlight: March 30, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kudos to these alumni<\/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>Alumnus<strong> Mike Jankowski<\/strong> was the head coach of 32 U.S. Winter Olympic Athletes. Under his guidance, Team USA has won <a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Unknown.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-50881\" src=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Unknown-169x300.png\" alt=\"Prescott Valley alumni chapter adopt-a-highway sign\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2018\/03\/Unknown-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2018\/03\/Unknown.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>20 medals. PyeongChang was Jankowski\u2019s fourth Olympics.<\/li>\n<li>Phoenix Magazine named<strong> Michael Hamant<\/strong> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixmag.com\/health-fitness\/health-care-power-list-2018.html\">Health Care Power List for 2018<\/a>. He is the 126<sup>th<\/sup> president of the Arizona Medical Association. Hamant received both his undergraduate degree and his master\u2019s degree at NAU.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chuck Hardt<\/strong> will be inducted into the Arizona High School Athletic Coaches Hall of Fame for track on April 29. Hardt has spent more than 30 years teaching, coaching and mentoring the youth of Payson. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paysonroundup.com\/sports\/local\/chuck-hardt-to-be-inducted-into-arizona-high-school-athletic\/article_d7f13958-f80b-58d1-a005-bb88f7660d3f.html\">Read more about Chuck Hardt online.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Edythe E. Weeks, <\/strong>who graduated from NAU with a Ph.D. in political science in 2006, is releasing a new book on U.S. race relations. \u201cDo Race Relations Matter in the United States?\u201d was inspired by years of teaching race and ethnic relations courses at NAU coupled with various teaching experiences as a Fulbright scholar.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>NAU Prescott Area Alumni Chapter<\/strong> adopted a portion of Highway 89A at mile marker 324. Chapter leaders including <strong>Bill Nyman<\/strong> \u201870, <strong>Cindy Nyman<\/strong> \u201871 and \u201875, <strong>Mike Beatty<\/strong> \u201877, <strong>Katherine Anderson<\/strong> \u201904, <strong>Jessica Marks<\/strong> \u201909 and <strong>David Williams<\/strong> \u201909, will be organizing cleanups three times per year for chapter members to participate in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/alumni-spotlight-march-30-2018\/\">Kudos to these alumni 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. Alumnus Mike Jankowski was the head coach of 32 U.S. Winter Olympic Athletes. Under his guidance, Team USA has won 20 medals. PyeongChang was Jankowski\u2019s fourth Olympics. Phoenix Magazine named&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":[1765],"class_list":["post-50872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight","tag-almuni-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50872","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=50872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}