{"id":57455,"date":"2019-10-17T11:54:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T18:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=57455"},"modified":"2019-10-18T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:05:35","slug":"student-spotlight-oct-18-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/student-spotlight-oct-18-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Student Spotlight: Oct. 18, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kudos to these students<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you have a spotlight item to\nshare with the NAU community?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E-mail your announcements\nto&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>,\nor use our&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/news-tip\/\">online submission form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Physics Ph.D. student <strong>Sumant Sarkar<\/strong> was the lead author, along with assistant professors <strong>Ryan Behunin <\/strong>and <strong>John Gibbs<\/strong>, of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acs.nanolett.9b03274\">Shape-Dependent, Chiro-optical Response of UV-Active, Nanohelix Metamaterials<\/a>,\u201d published in Nano Letters under the American Chemical Society Publications. Their research achieved high levels of a typically weak optical phenomenon called chiro-optical activity that was brought about through the use of ultraviolet wavelengths. <\/li><li>The speech and debate team competed in its first events of the season: the Mills Invitational and the Aztec Invitational. <strong>Anabelle Daigle<\/strong>, <strong>Alyssa Layne<\/strong>, <strong>X\u00f3chitl Li\u00f1\u00e1n<\/strong>, <strong>Eliot Lovell<\/strong> and <strong>Konner Morris <\/strong>represented NAU. Diagle and Layne qualified to compete at the National Forensics Association tournament in April.<ul><li>Daigle, a freshman studying biomedical science, won fourth place in Novice Persuasive Speaking for a discussion about the medical industry\u2019s systematic misdiagnosis of women.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Layne, a sophomore studying criminology and criminal justice and business, earned second place in Novice Persuasive Speaking for a discussion about the controversial history of tipping practices and minimum wage in the U.S. She also earned second place in Novice After Dinner Speaking for a discussion about abolishing the fraternity system on college campuses and spoke as a finalist in the Novice Impromptu Speaking category. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/student-spotlight-oct-18-2019\/\">Kudos to these students Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to&nbsp;Inside@nau.edu, or use our&nbsp;online submission form. Physics Ph.D. student Sumant Sarkar was the lead author, along with assistant professors Ryan Behunin and John Gibbs, of \u201cShape-Dependent, Chiro-optical Response of UV-Active, Nanohelix Metamaterials,\u201d published in Nano Letters&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"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-57455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57455","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}