- A number of Supplemental Instruction (SI) leaders were recognized recently:
- Madison Clark<\/strong>, Martha Hawthorne<\/strong>, Sarah Kline<\/strong>, Holly Macholl<\/strong>, Erica Sanders<\/strong>, Jack Sullivan<\/strong> and Bryant Tran<\/strong> earned NAU Spring 2019 Excellence in Leadership Awards. <\/li>
- Mitchell Feldman<\/strong> was selected by his SI peers to receive the Excellence in Peer Leadership award.<\/li>
- David John<\/strong>, lecturer in biology, won the SI Faculty Partner Excellence in Leadership award.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
- Parks and Recreation Management internship student Joseph Nagle<\/strong> was featured in an Arizona Daily Sun article<\/a> on April 7. The story focused on Nagle\u2019s task of mapping the signs, benches, trash cans, bollards and fences that are part of the Flagstaff Urban Trail System.<\/li>
- Kellen Brandel <\/strong>and Katherin Vargas Henao,<\/strong> master’s students studying Spanish, and Ellie Broadman, <\/strong>a doctoral student <\/strong>in Earth sciences and environmental sustainability, won a Graduate Teaching Assistant Award from a pool of almost 20 applicants. The Graduate College and NAU Faculty Professional Development announced the winners at an awards ceremony on Tuesday.<\/li>
- A number of students received awards from the American Society for Microbiology at the Arizona\/Southern Nevada regional ASM conference. This year\u2019s conference had 35 presentations and 52 posters.
- Shelby Hutton<\/strong> won for Undergraduate Poster. Karisma Kocos<\/strong> and Nikola Williams<\/strong> were runners-up in this category. <\/li>
- Oliver Kask <\/strong>was a runner-up in the Undergraduate Talk category. <\/li>
- David Panisello <\/strong>was a runner-up in the Graduate Poster category. <\/li>
- Kim Celona<\/strong> was a runner-up in the Graduate Talk category.<\/li>
- Professor Bridget Barker<\/strong> won a Peggy Cotter Travel Award.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
- Tennis player Tim Handel<\/strong> moved up to the No. 72 nationally ranked singles player in the Oracle\/ITA Division I Men\u2019s Rankings. This is his highest ranking of the season. Handel also was ranked No. 80 in the country. Handel leads the Lumberjacks and the Big Sky Conference with 20 wins this season. <\/li>
- Members of the women\u2019s golf team won Big Sky honors recently:
- Aleksandra Chekalina<\/strong> and Ashley Croft<\/strong> were named to the 2019 Big Sky Third Team All-Conference. <\/li>
- Elle Kocourkova<\/strong> and Lexi Keene<\/strong> were placed on the Honorable Mention team.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
- Students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy had significant achievements recently:
- Doctoral student Lori Glaspie<\/strong> received an Honorable Mention in the National Science Foundation\u2019s Graduate Research Fellowship competition. <\/li>
- Justin Castaneda<\/strong>, Mike Ortiz<\/strong>, Edgar Villalpando<\/strong> and Benjamin Pieczynski<\/strong> received an Honorable Mention at the 2019 Posters on the Hill event for their project \u201cSimulating Dark Matter Deficient Galaxies.\u201d<\/li>
- Visiting doctoral student Samuel Navarro-Meza<\/strong> had his first lead-authored paper, \u201cFirst Results from the rapid-response spectrophotometric characterization of Near-Earth Objects,\u201d published. The study focuses on rapid response observations of small Near-Earth Objects.<\/li>
- Graduate student Sarah Lamm<\/strong> spoke at back-to-back conferences: The Joint Regional Geological Society of America and Scicomm 2019. At Scicomm, Lamm won Best Sci Comm Prop for her string rover display that demonstrates the full size of the Curiosity Rover. Lamm also was put on The Mars Generation\u2019s list of 24 Under 24 Leaders and Innovators in STEAM and Space Award winners<\/a>, which recognizes young people from throughout the world making contributions to the STEAM fields and bringing science to the public. <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
- Seventeen students completed internships through the NAU\/NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Research Internship program. The students were mentored by NAU faculty, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey and Lowell Observatory and the editor of the Arizona Daily Sun. They presented their results at the Arizona Space Grant Consortium\u2019s 28th<\/sup> Statewide Symposium, where NAU faculty members Anita Antoninka<\/strong>, Lisa Chien<\/strong> and In\u00e8s Monta\u00f1o<\/strong> moderated. Michael Smith<\/strong>, Faith Walker<\/strong>, Michael Shafer<\/strong>, Mark Loeffler<\/strong>, Rebecca Best<\/strong>, Amir Arzani<\/strong>, Ryan Porter<\/strong>, Amy Whipple<\/strong>, Nancy Riggs<\/strong>, Egdar Civitello<\/strong>, Atoninka and Monta\u00f1o served as program mentors.
- Solvay Blomquist<\/strong>: \u201cAnalysis of Meteors and their Light Curves.\u201d<\/li>
- Gabriel Carrillo<\/strong>: \u201cCreating Topographic Maps of Mars using a Software Pipeline.\u201d<\/li>
- Mildred Diaz<\/strong>: \u201cThe Effects of Forest Management Practices and Feedbacks between Plants and Soil Organisms.\u201d<\/li>
- Trae Doty<\/strong>: \u201cQuantifying Coastal Erosion along the Lost Coast, California.\u201d<\/li>
- Samantha Hershauer<\/strong>: \u201cMoose on the Loose.\u201d<\/li>
- Timothy Johnson<\/strong>: \u201cScience Writing at the Arizona Daily Sun.\u201d <\/li>
- Ryan Kelly<\/strong>: \u201cCloud Finder: Automated Cloud Identification for Robotic Telescopes.\u201d<\/li>
- Collin Krawczyk<\/strong>: \u201cAttitude Measurements based on Direct Solar Irradiance Vector.\u201d<\/li>
- Adrian Luna<\/strong>: \u201cQuantum Engineering following Nature\u2019s Lead: Using Genetic Algorithms to Develop Nitride Optoelectronic Nanodevices.\u201d<\/li>
- Mitchell Magnuson<\/strong>: \u201cSpace Weathering Experiments as they Relate to Carbonaceous Asteroids.\u201d<\/li>
- Lauren Mason-Sarantopulos<\/strong>: \u201cVariation in Temperature Tolerance in Native and Introduced Amphipods of Northern Arizona, Hyallela Azteca Gammarus Lacustris.\u201d<\/li>
- Connor Moreno<\/strong>: \u201cA Novel Method to Study Heat Transfer Enhancement and Cooling.\u201d<\/li>
- Sarah Nolt-Caraway<\/strong>: \u201cMapping Crustal Deformation using Seismic Anisotropy in Ruby Mountains, Nevada.\u201d<\/li>
- Briana Palmiero<\/strong>: \u201cEvaluation of Plant Moisture Stress and Overall Drought Tolerance in Relationship to Climate Change in Southwestern White Pine (Pinus Strobiformis).\u201d<\/li>
- Benjamin Pieczynski<\/strong>: \u201cThe Formation of Spiral Structures in the Flocculent Galaxy M83.\u201d<\/li>
- Ryan Shiner<\/strong>: \u201cSproul Crater: An Eruption History.\u201d<\/li>
- Alyssa Smith<\/strong>: \u201cSynthesis of Copper(I) Oxide Nanoparticles.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Gabriel Carrillo<\/strong>: \u201cCreating Topographic Maps of Mars using a Software Pipeline.\u201d<\/li>
- Justin Castaneda<\/strong>, Mike Ortiz<\/strong>, Edgar Villalpando<\/strong> and Benjamin Pieczynski<\/strong> received an Honorable Mention at the 2019 Posters on the Hill event for their project \u201cSimulating Dark Matter Deficient Galaxies.\u201d<\/li>
- Elle Kocourkova<\/strong> and Lexi Keene<\/strong> were placed on the Honorable Mention team.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
- Oliver Kask <\/strong>was a runner-up in the Undergraduate Talk category. <\/li>
- Mitchell Feldman<\/strong> was selected by his SI peers to receive the Excellence in Peer Leadership award.<\/li>
- Madison Clark<\/strong>, Martha Hawthorne<\/strong>, Sarah Kline<\/strong>, Holly Macholl<\/strong>, Erica Sanders<\/strong>, Jack Sullivan<\/strong> and Bryant Tran<\/strong> earned NAU Spring 2019 Excellence in Leadership Awards. <\/li>
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