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E-mail your announcements to\u00a0Inside@nau.edu<\/a>, or use our\u00a0online submission form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\nRobert Kellar<\/strong>, associate professor of practice of biology, Nathan Nieto<\/strong>, the late associate professor of biology, and Andy Koppisch<\/strong>, associate professor of chemistry, were featured on the front cover of Arizona Technology Council\u2019s magazine Tech Connect. \u201cMedical Mending: Tissue Engineering to Heal Wounds<\/a>\u201d discusses the development of technology that incorporates anti-microbial materials into skin-wound healing scaffolds.<\/li>\nWinona Reid<\/strong>, Jamie Emanuel<\/strong> and Wayne Dagel<\/strong>, training specialists at the Institute for Human Development-American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Training and Technical Assistance Center, presented at the annual conference of the National Consortia of Administrators for Native American Rehabilitation. The three presented on topics of data mining with the organization\u2019s annual performance reports and development of effective individual plans for employment.<\/li>\nAssistant professor with the Pathogen and Microbiome Institute Crystal Hepp<\/strong> was featured in a piece published by The Arizona Republic<\/a>. The article highlights Hepp\u2019s driving research question: Where is the West Nile virus found in Arizona and in neighboring states coming from? Through DNA analysis, the evolutionary biologist found that at the southeast Phoenix metropolitan area was a hot spot.<\/li>\nTruong Nghiem<\/strong>, an assistant professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, received a grant from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers-Control Systems Society. The grant is for the advancement of the F1\/10 Robo-Racing project in Flagstaff, which seeks to promote education and training in controls, advanced robotics and autonomics vehicles at NAU and the Flagstaff area. The money will help fund an undergraduate course for the spring semester and a high school summer camp in 2020.<\/li>\nSchool of Art new media assistant professor Jaewook Lee <\/strong>and senior lecturer David Van Ness <\/strong>published their two-part discussion on propositions of teaching new art media at the university level. The works, published in the online journal TK-21 La Revue (parts one<\/a> and two<\/a>), highlight the exclusion of interdisciplinary curriculum in art schools across the United States.<\/li>\nErika Nowak<\/strong>, assistant research professor in the School of Earth and Sustainability, gave two talks by special invitation at the Herpetology in America conference in Quito, Ecuador, in November. Nowak discussed venomous and threatened snake conservation and management. NAU\u2019s Center for International Education helped fund Nowak\u2019s travel.<\/li>\nKyoungmee \u201cKate\u201d Byun,<\/strong> assistant professor of interior design in the School of Art, curated and designed the exhibit \u201cOur World Our Say Exhibition #1,\u201d on understanding HIV risk and stories of resilience among adolescents who have been orphaned by HIV\/AIDS in Hai Phong, Vietnam. The exhibit is displayed at the Schneider Hall Galleries at the University of Louisville and will remain until February.<\/li>\nJiun-Yi (Jenny) Tsai<\/strong>, assistant professor of strategic communication, led a project with the NAU Media Justice project<\/a>. The project, supported by the Online News Association in 2018-2019, creates an experiment to test efficacy and impacts of mobile news storytelling to empower rural indigenous communities. Journalism lecturer Rachel Tso<\/strong>, creative media & film principal lecturer Paul Helford<\/strong> and assistant professor of practice Brian Rackham<\/strong> were also on the team, joined by Loris Taylor, CEO of Native Public Media, and Tonantzin “Toni” DeAztlan Smith of Purdue University.<\/li>\nEmeritus Regents\u2019 Professor Bill Grabe<\/strong> and professor of English Fredricka Stoller<\/strong> had the third edition of their text \u201cTeaching and Researching Reading<\/a>\u201d published by Routledge. The book charts the field of reading systematically and coherently for the benefit of language teachers, students and researchers. It contains reading-curriculum principles, evidence-based teaching ideas and 14 projects for teacher adaption and use.<\/li>\nEcoss professor Ted Schuur<\/strong> was among 62 scientists named fellows<\/a> of the American Geophysical Union this week in San Francisco. Schuur was recognized for being a global leader in research that has fundamentally contributed to understanding the vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change.\u00a0Learn more about the latest permafrost research by following the\u00a0Permafrost Carbon Network<\/a> on Twitter.<\/span><\/li>\nArt foundations coordinator and School of Art lecturer Julie Comnick<\/strong> will show a solo exhibition at the LIC Factory in New York City through February. The exhibition is a painting and video project that explores the gradual dissolution of culture in contemporary society through the symbolic ruin of the violin. 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