{"id":54524,"date":"2019-02-28T16:37:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T23:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=54524"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:37:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T23:37:48","slug":"in-the-spotlight-march-1-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-march-1-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: March 1, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Kudos to these\u00a0faculty, staff and programs<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">E-mail your announcements to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inside@nau.edu<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or use our\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/news-tip\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">online submission form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Criminology and criminal justice professor <\/span><b>Robert Schehr<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, presented two lectures at Georg-August University in G\u00f6ttingen, Germany. Both lectures addressed questions related to American criminal procedure. In the first lecture, he talked about standard of proof, presumption of innocence and American plea bargaining. During the second lecture, he talked about the concerns related to the use of forensic practices in respective systems. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Criminology and criminal justice regents professor <\/span><b>Raymond Michalowski<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> presented \u201cRegulatory Rollbacks and Public Health\u201d at the American Society of Criminology. Michalowski had his chapter \u201cPower, Crime and Enclosure: Capital Accumulation in the Twilight of the Neoliberal SSA\u201d published in the book \u201cRevisiting Crimes of the Powerful.\u201d He also published \u201cComplexity below, complexity above: Intra-class conflict, immigration imaginaries, and elite alliances in the Arizona\u2013Mexico borderlands,\u201d an article he wrote with social and behavioral science professor <\/span><b>Frederic Solop<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Gibbs Research Lab<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Department of Physics &amp; Astronomy published an article, \u201cEngineering the Dynamics of Active Colloids by Targeted Design of Metal\u2013Semiconductor Heterojunctions.\u201d The article looks at advancing active particles to form man-made small-scale machinery. Authors for the article include physics and astronomy assistant professor<\/span><b> John Gibbs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, graduate student <\/span><b>Sumant Sarkar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, undergraduate students <\/span><b>Andrew Leeth Holterhoff<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Mingyang Li<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>John Casta\u00f1eda <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and alumnus <\/span><b>Justin Toller<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mechanical engineering lecturer <\/span><b>Jennifer Wade<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a part of a research team that is demonstrating a new direct air capture concept that uses novel materials to collect low-pressure carbon dioxide from ambient air. Wade\u2019s role is to model gas transport and exchange across membrane materials. This will help the team understand the active pumping process and improve material performance. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Physics and astronomy assistant professor <\/span><b>Chad Trujillo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and his collaborators Scott Sheppard and Dave Tholen have discovered something in space even more Farout than their latest discovery. While Farout, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the first trans-Neptunian object discovered while beyond 100 AU from the Sun, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is 120 times farther away from Earth, the new discovery FarFarOut is 140 times further away. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NAU\u2019s <\/span><b>justice studies faculty<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> held a Diversity in Policing Panel Discussion at the North Valley campus in Phoenix. The panel was made up of criminal justice professionals from throughout the state and they talked about their experiences and the importance of recruiting a workforce that represents the community. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Erin Plese<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, security services team member, is one of seven recipients of a scholarship given by Internet2. The scholarship aims to increase the meaningful participation of underrepresented information technology professionals. Plese will be formally recognized in the Internet2 Inclusivity Initiative session on March 6.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Amit Kumar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, assistant professor in the College of Health and Human Services, had two papers accepted to journals, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0003999319300127?dgcid=rss_sd_all&amp;showall=true&amp;via=ihub\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use of Hospital-Based Rehabilitation Services and Hospital Readmission following Ischemic Stroke in the United States<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d and \u201cVariation in Hospital-Based Rehabilitation Services among Patients with Ischemic Stroke in the United States.\u201d The papers examine the association between hospital-based rehabilitation and all-cause 30-day hospital readmission amongst ischemic stroke patients in the United States.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English professor <\/span><b>Nicole Walker<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a co-author on the recently published book, \u2018The After Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet\u2019. Along with author David Carlin, Walker created a collection of short environmental and personal essays, all which contemplate the individual\u2019s role in crises that call the idea of survival into question. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-march-1-2019\/\">Kudos to these\u00a0faculty, staff and programs 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. Criminology and criminal justice professor Robert Schehr, presented two lectures at Georg-August University in G\u00f6ttingen, Germany. Both lectures addressed questions related to American criminal procedure. 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