{"id":58857,"date":"2020-02-27T11:52:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T18:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=58857"},"modified":"2020-02-27T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T18:52:36","slug":"in-the-spotlight-feb-28-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-feb-28-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Feb. 28, 2020"},"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>Senior lecturer of history <strong>Ana Varela-Lago<\/strong> published the chapter, \u201cIn Their Own Words: Recovering the History of the Spanish Immigrant Experience in the United States Through Immigrants\u2019 Writing,\u201d in Writing\/Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelle Miller<\/strong>, professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/psychological-sciences\/dr-michelle-miller-presents-keynote-address-at-conference-on-teaching-and-learning\/\">psychological sciences<\/a>, was the keynote speaker at Columbia University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ctl.columbia.edu\/about\/cotl-2020\/\">Celebration of Teaching and Learning<\/a> The event brought together faculty, staff, students and the Columbia University community to celebrate how courses and pedagogies are transforming.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lendedu.com\/blog\/college-risk-reward-indicator-2020\/\">LendEDU<\/a> ranked <strong>Northern Arizona University<\/strong> No. 1 in Arizona and No. 208 nationally on its 5<sup>th<\/sup> annual College Risk-Reward Indicator report. The study analyzes four-year colleges to find those that provide the best return on investment for students.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pam Stephens<\/strong>, professor of art education, coedited the March 2020 issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davisart.com\/schoolarts\/issues\/2020\/steam\/\">SchoolArts<\/a>, a national art education resource for teachers. The issue focuses on transdisciplinary STEAM lessons for K-12 programs and includes three articles from NAU alumnae <strong>Caycie Herring<\/strong> (2019), <strong>Bella Schauer<\/strong> (2016) and <strong>Kelsey Greenland<\/strong> (2014).<\/li>\n<li>Senior lecturer of art <strong>Chris Taylor<\/strong> was named associate artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts for the summer. He was selected to work with New York artist <a href=\"https:\/\/atlanticcenterforthearts.org\/master-artist\/ryan-mcginness\/\">Ryan McGinness<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vincent Caranchini<\/strong>, assistant professor of interior design, helped with the historical restoration of the Epiphany Episcopal Church in Flagstaff. He worked with Rev. Marianna Gronek and the parish\u2019s executive council as a color consultant, restoring the chancel ceiling from all-white to a gradation of blues with faux-finished wooden framing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-feb-28-2020\/\">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. Senior lecturer of history Ana Varela-Lago published the chapter, \u201cIn Their Own Words: Recovering the History of the Spanish Immigrant Experience in the United States Through Immigrants\u2019&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-58857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58857","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=58857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}