{"id":54598,"date":"2019-03-07T16:09:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=54598"},"modified":"2019-03-08T13:49:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T20:49:53","slug":"in-the-spotlight-march-8-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-march-8-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: March 8, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Kudos to these faculty, 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;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Lori Poloni-Staudinger<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, professor in political science and international affairs and associate dean in the College of Social and Behavioral Services, co-authored \u201cAmerican Difference: A Guide to American Politics from a Comparative Perspective.\u201d The book explores why politics differ among democracies by examining the many facets that make a democracy. The new edition includes content on civil liberties and civil rights, constitutional arrangements and major elections.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assistant professor in the School of Communication <\/span>Jiun-Yi Tsai <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">co-authored a paper, &#8220;Developing a Multi-level Organization-Public Dialogic Communication Framework to Assess Social Media-Mediated Disaster Communication and Engagement Outcomes,&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><\/b><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that received the top faculty paper award from the International Communication Association PR Division. Tsai contributed to developing the theoretical framework and data analysis.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor of biological sciences <\/span><b>Stephen Shuster<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published a chapter in Elsevier\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/B9780124095489111571\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encyclopedia of Ecology<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0second edition, Volume 1.\u00a0Titled \u201cMating Systems,\u201d the chapter explores differences between males and females as well as mating systems found in plants, fungi, protists and animals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Northern Arizona University\u2019s <\/span><b>Hotel and Restaurant Management<\/b> <b>program<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was ranked No. 7 on CEOWorld Magazine\u2019s list of \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ceoworld.biz\/2019\/03\/04\/best-hospitality-and-hotel-management-schools-in-the-world-for-2019\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Best Hospitality and Hotel Management Schools in the World for 2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d The program climbed three spots since last year\u2019s list. Rankings are based on a number of factors including perceived global brand influence, recruiter rankings, employer feedback, job placement rates, admission eligibility, specializations and academic reputation. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-march-8-2019\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to\u00a0Inside@nau.edu. Lori Poloni-Staudinger, professor in political science and international affairs and associate dean in the College of Social and Behavioral Services, co-authored \u201cAmerican Difference: A Guide to American Politics from a Comparative Perspective.\u201d&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"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-54598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54598","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}