{"id":54688,"date":"2019-03-14T16:31:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T23:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=54688"},"modified":"2019-03-15T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T17:54:05","slug":"in-the-student-spotlight-march-15-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-student-spotlight-march-15-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Student Spotlight: March 15, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Kudos to these students<\/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\u00a0Inside@nau.edu, 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 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to being a member of the All-Big Sky Third Team, men\u2019s basketball player <\/span><b>Bernie Andre<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is one of three players in NAU history to be named the 2018-19 Big Sky Conference Co-Newcomer of the Year. Andre leads NAU with a 13.6 points-per-game scoring average and 8.4 rebounds per contest, which ranks third overall among Big Sky Leaders. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Men\u2019s basketball player <\/span><b>Brooks DeBisschop<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was named as a member of the 2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-American Third Team. Members are selected based on their combined performance on the court and in the classroom. DeBisschop leads the Lumberjacks with a .582 shooting percentage from the field and has a GPA of 3.96.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students from the <\/span><b>Model United Nations Club<\/b>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54692\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54692 size-uncropped-small\" src=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-1-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2019\/03\/image-1-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2019\/03\/image-1-150x225.png 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2019\/03\/image-1-300x450.png 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2019\/03\/image-1-400x600.png 400w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2019\/03\/image-1.png 646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students of NAU&#8217;s Model United Nations club.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recently organized and hosted the AXEMUN<br \/>\nconference at NAU. University teams from Arizona and California attended the two-day event and debated issues of international politics. Hosting University of California Merced and Embry Riddle, the delegates from the three schools worked together to solve the issue of Increased Polarization on Social Media. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women\u2019s basketball player <\/span><b>Kaleigh Paplow<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was voted to the All-Big Sky Third Team. Paplow is NAU\u2019s team leader in points, rebounds, assists and steals and ranks in the Big Sky\u2019s top 10 in points, rebounds and steals. In Monday\u2019s game against Sacramento State, Paplow scored a season-best of 27 points. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NAU <\/span><b>students studying Japanese<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> recently met with the Japanese Olympic swim team who were on campus training to practice communicating. Professor Okuno of Waseda University, the team&#8217;s coach, lectured the NAU students in Japanese about what it means to be a swimmer, then the athletes and students were able to communicate one-on-one in between training.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Arizona State Association of Physician Assistants<\/span><\/span>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54689\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54689\" src=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/image-219x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2019\/03\/image-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2019\/03\/image-439x600.png 439w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2019\/03\/image.png 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ASAPA award winners.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(ASAPA) Spring CME Conference occurred this past week, and NAU students and teams took home multiple awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the poster competition, <b>Skyler Buck<\/b> took first place and <b>Jessica Oliverson<\/b> took home the award for honorable mention. The winning posters, along with all the others, will be on display in the Phoenix Biomedical Campus for the rest of the year.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two teams also completed in the ASAPA Challenge Bowl: Team A was made up of <\/span><b>Ivory Marinakis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Melicia Sanchez<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Priscilla Coronado<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Team B consisted of <\/span><b>Erica Guevara<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Chen Chen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Mariah Campoy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Team A went on to win this year\u2019s championship. This is NAU\u2019s second state championship in a row, and third in four years. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-student-spotlight-march-15-2019\/\">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. In addition to being a member of the All-Big Sky Third Team, men\u2019s basketball player Bernie Andre is one of three players in NAU history to be named the 2018-19&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-54688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54688","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=54688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}