{"id":57041,"date":"2019-09-19T12:34:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=57041"},"modified":"2019-09-20T09:43:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T16:43:56","slug":"in-the-spotlight-sept-20-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-sept-20-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Sept. 20, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email your announcements to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>, or use&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/news-tip\/#.XVwzh5NKhsY\">our online submission form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Psychological sciences professors\u00a0<strong>Heidi Wayment<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Ann Huffman<\/strong> co-authored \u201cA brief \u201cquiet ego\u201d workplace intervention to reduce compassion fatigue and improve health in hospital healthcare workers,\u201d which was featured in Applied Nursing Research. The article investigates the risk of health care professionals developing compassionate fatigue and the effects it has on their health.\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Mark Salvatore<\/strong>, assistant professor in astronomy and planetary sciences, contributed to research in multiple presentations at the 9th\u00a0International Conference on Mars in July. He also spoke at the annual McMurdo Long Term Ecological Research meeting on the results of his recent fieldwork in Antarctica using satellites to identify and characterize microbial communities in glacial melt streams.\u00a0\u00a0Additionally, he was awarded a supplement to his current National Science Foundation award for mapping the Antarctic continent using big data and novel image processing techniques. The supplement will allow Salvatore\u2019s group to work with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Flagstaff to validate their remote sensing techniques in Arizona and assist the USGS in their efforts to geologically map the western Arizona region.\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>F\u00e9 Murray<\/strong>, assistant clinical professor in communication sciences and disorders, was featured on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.listennotes.com\/podcasts\/first-bite-a\/65-ethics-behind-bilingual-KHNdanJifWy\/\">First Bite<\/a>, a podcast by Michelle Dawson that discusses issues in speech therapy. Murray discussed ethical recommendations when it comes to pediatric bilingual evaluations and treatment.\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Northern Arizona University<\/strong> was included in Colorado State University\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/social.colostate.edu\/2019\/09\/10\/5-universities-with-a-strong-social-strategy-2\/\">Five Universities with a Strong Social Strategy.<\/a> The list, based on social media engagement rates, included Washington State, Texas A&amp;M, Michigan State and South Carolina.\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Ty Robinson<\/strong>, assistant professors of astronomy and planetary sciences,\u00a0and doctoral student\u00a0<strong>Colin\u00a0Chandler<\/strong> presented at the Exoclimes V meeting held in Oxford, England. Chandler spoke on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/habex\/pdf\/HabEx-Final-Report-Public-Release.pdf\">Habitable Exoplanet <\/a>Explorer mission concept based on the final report, in which Ph.D. student <strong>Amber Young<\/strong> is mentioned as a contributing scientist. Robinson presented on his work related to simulating the atmospheres of mysterious mini-Neptune exoplanets.<\/li><li>Associate professor of astronomy and planetary sciences\u00a0<strong>Mark Loeffler\u2019s<\/strong> proposal \u201cSpectroscopy and Physical Properties of Ices in Cold Astrophysical Environments,\u201d was accepted for funding by NASA\u2019s Astrophysics Research and Analysis Program. The goal of the project, which is funded for three years for a total of about $435,000, is to\u00a0characterize the spectral properties of homonuclear molecules that are expected to exist in icy grains present in the Interstellar Medium. Professor\u00a0<strong>Stephen Tegler<\/strong> and Lowell Observatory astronomer Will Grundy are also collaborators on this project.<\/li><li><strong>William Culbertson<\/strong>, professor of communication sciences and disorders, authored \u201cFundamentals of Speech and Language Sciences,\u201d a new textbook providing an understanding of core concepts in speech and language.<\/li><li><strong>Nadine Barlow<\/strong>, chair of the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, organized the 10th Planetary Crater Consortium meeting held at the U.S. Geological Survey in August. The meeting discussed impact craters on the moon, Mars, asteroids and Europa, as well as gave updates on the modeling of crater formation, the effect of terrain properties on crater derived surface ages and new crater analysis tools. Barlow gave a talk at the meeting on \u201cThe Role of Large Impacts in Greenhouse Warming on Early Mars.&#8221;\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Dorothy Wu Nelson<\/strong>, lecturer in strategic communication merchandising, authored \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/335088680_Fashion_and_social_networking_a_motivations_framework\">Fashion and social networking: a motivations framework<\/a>,\u201d published in the Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management. The article examines potential motivations that drive social networking sites for fashion-related behaviors among millennial consumers using a Uses and Gratifications perspective.\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Cristina Thomas<\/strong>, assistant professor of astronomy and planetary sciences, co-authored two papers published through the American Astronomical Society\u2019s Committee on the Status of Women.\u00a0<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1908.00589\">\u201cFindings and Recommendations from the AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy:\u00a0\u00a0Towards Eliminating Harassment in Astronomy.\u201d<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1908.00597\">\u201cFindings and Recommendations from the AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy: Advancing the Career Development of Women in Astronomy.\u201d<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-sept-20-2019\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? Email your announcements to&nbsp;Inside@nau.edu, or use&nbsp;our online submission form. Psychological sciences professors\u00a0Heidi Wayment and\u00a0Ann Huffman co-authored \u201cA brief \u201cquiet ego\u201d workplace intervention to reduce compassion fatigue and improve health in hospital healthcare workers,\u201d which was featured&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"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-57041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57041","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}