{"id":58722,"date":"2020-02-13T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T19:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=58722"},"modified":"2020-02-13T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T19:01:16","slug":"in-the-student-spotlight-feb-14-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-student-spotlight-feb-14-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Student Spotlight: Feb. 14, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to these students<\/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>Senior <strong>Geordie Beamish<\/strong> was named the Big Sky Men\u2019s Track Athlete of the Week after clocking the fourth fastest indoor mile time in the country. His time of 3:56.90 was his personal best and earned him sixth place at the 113<sup>th<\/sup> NYRR Millrose Games.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>NAU Model United Nations Team<\/strong> won three awards at the AggieMUN conference hosted by UC Davis. Overall, the team won Best Small Delegation award. Team members <strong>Zachary Schuh<\/strong> and <strong>James Appel<\/strong> both won individual awards.<\/li>\n<li>Junior communications major <strong>Savannah Oviedo<\/strong> will present her project, \u201cMonumental, Marshall Fredericks\u2019 Sculpture for the City of Detroit,\u201d at the Southwest Popular American Culture Association Conference. Oviedo has participated in the Interns-to-Scholars program the past four semesters working alongside professor of communications <strong>Janna Jones<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>NAU Speech and Debate<\/strong> team brought home a number of awards from a tournament in San Diego; six students qualified to compete at the National Forensics Association tournament. <strong>Cameron Baird<\/strong>, <strong>Annabelle Daigle<\/strong>, <strong>Alyssa Layne<\/strong>, <strong>Elliot Lovell<\/strong>, <strong>Kailey Saenz<\/strong> and <strong>Riley Smelkinson<\/strong> will be competing in June. Individual awards are as follows:\n<ul>\n<li>Baird placed No. 1 in Senior Informative Speaking discussing proposals and drawbacks of lithium in drinking water.<\/li>\n<li>Layne placed No. 3 in Senior After Dinner Speaking advocating for the abolition of fraternities, No. 5 in Senior Persuasive Speaking discussing the controversial history of \u201ctipping\u201d practices and minimum wage in the U.S. and was a finalist in the Senior Impromptu Speaking.<\/li>\n<li>Smelkinson placed No. 2 in Senior Persuasive Speaking discussing student loan debt and the connection to mental health and No. 3 in Novice Prose performing a piece on the limitations of the national suicide hotline.<\/li>\n<li>Lovell placed No. 4 in Senior Informative Speaking discussing continued human evolution and how we are continuing to change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-student-spotlight-feb-14-2020\/\">Kudos to these students 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. Senior Geordie Beamish was named the Big Sky Men\u2019s Track Athlete of the Week after clocking the fourth fastest indoor mile time in the country. His time of 3:56.90 was&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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-58722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58722","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}