{"id":58336,"date":"2019-12-19T14:47:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T21:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=58336"},"modified":"2019-12-20T22:07:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T05:07:59","slug":"in-the-spotlight-dec-20-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-dec-20-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Dec. 20, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\n<p>E-mail your announcements to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>, or use our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/news-tip\/\">online submission form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Astronomy and planetary science assistant professor\u00a0<strong>Ty Robinson<\/strong> was one of the authors on a paper published by Cornell University. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1911.09211\">Detecting and Characterizing Water Vapor in the Atmospheres of Earth Analogs through Observation of the 0.94 Micron Feature in Reflected Light<\/a>\u201d looks at developing an efficient observational strategy by characterizing the atmospheric water vapor content of water-bearing worlds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Josh Emery<\/strong>, associate professor in astronomy and planetary science, was one of the authors of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/366\/6470\/eaay3544\">Episodes of particle ejection from the surface of the active asteroid (101955) Bennu<\/a>.\u201d The paper, published in Science Magazine, describes close-range observations of mass loss on the near-Earth asteroid.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Northern Arizona University<\/strong> was one of eight schools in the U.S. to receive the FY19 General Douglas MacArthur Award. The award is based on a combination of the achievement of the school&#8217;s commissioning mission, its cadets&#8217; performance and standing on the command&#8217;s National Order of Merit List and its cadet retention rate. NAU was recognized as the top performing program in the 5th Brigade of Army ROTC.<\/li>\n<li>English professor <strong>Monica Brown<\/strong> was a featured speaker at the recent Regional Anti-Defamation League event in which Phoenix Coyotes president Ahron Cohen was honored with the Torch of Liberty Award. Brown, an award-winning author inspired by her Peruvian and Jewish heritage to bring diverse stories to children, also shared her poem, \u201cTree of Life,\u201d at the event.<\/li>\n<li>Astronomy and planetary science professor\u00a0<strong>Devon Burr<\/strong> co-authored \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0019103518302483\">Investigation of target property effects on crater populations in long lava flows: A study in the Cerberus region, Mars, with implications for magma source identification<\/a>.\u201d The paper, recently published in ScienceDirect, It found that ages decrease with increasing distance from the inferred source.<\/li>\n<li>School of Music director <strong>Todd E. Sullivan<\/strong> was elected to a three-year term (2019-2022) on the National Association of Schools of Music Commission on Accreditation. The Board of Directors, which represents a variety of musical backgrounds, is made up of a president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, the immediate past president, the chair and the associate chair of the commission on accreditation, the chair of the commission on community college accreditation, a non-degree-granting member, nine regional chairs and three public members.<\/li>\n<li>Members of the <strong>Astronomy and Planetary Science<\/strong><strong> department<\/strong> (including both faculty and students) were first or co-authors on at least 15 presentations at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting last week in San Francisco. The five-day AGU conference is the largest international Earth and space science\u00a0meeting in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-dec-20-2019\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs 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. Astronomy and planetary science assistant professor\u00a0Ty Robinson was one of the authors on a paper published by Cornell University. \u201cDetecting and Characterizing Water Vapor in the Atmospheres&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"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-58336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58336","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}