{"id":5973,"date":"2008-02-13T12:45:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T19:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=5973"},"modified":"2012-11-20T14:49:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:49:57","slug":"in-the-spotlight-feb-13-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-feb-13-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Feb. 13, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/h3>\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\" target=\"_blank\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5977\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5977\" title=\"kiisa\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/kiisa.jpg\" alt=\"Kiisa at conference\" width=\"350\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2008\/02\/kiisa.jpg 350w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2008\/02\/kiisa-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-to-R: NSF director Arden L. Bement, Jr., Martha Flanders of NSF&#8217;s Division of Integrative Organismal Systems in the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Kiisa Nishikawa, NAU Regents&#8217; Professor of biology, and NSF deputy director Kathie L. Olsen. Flanders holds a chameleon used to demonstrate fast capture movements. This is the first time that live animals were used for demonstration purposes in the NSF building. Credit: Pat Olmert, National Science Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Kiisa Nishikawa<\/strong>, Regents&#8217; Professor of biology, was invited to showcase her research and represent the Biological Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation at a press conference announcing the NSF budget Feb. 4 at the agency&#8217;s office in Arlington, Va. Also traveling to Virginia were a live chameleon and toad that Nishikawa uses to demonstrate extremely rapid prey capture movements. Studies of the neuromuscular basis for such rapid movements in animals have led to a novel model of muscle function. The model has the potential to revolutionize the field of muscle physiology, influence the design of prostheses and perhaps improve the efficiency of electric motors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nadine Barlow<\/strong>, associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has had her book,\u00a0<em>Mars: An Introduction to its Interior, Surface, and Atmosphere<\/em>, published by Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Liz Kalies<\/strong>, a forestry doctoral student, and\u00a0<strong>Ben Solvesky<\/strong>, who graduated from the master&#8217;s program in December, tied for the Best Student Presentation award at the 41st Joint Annual Meeting of the Arizona and New Mexico Chapters of The Wildlife Society and the Arizona\/New Mexico Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, in Prescott Feb. 7-9. Kailes&#8217; presentation was titled, &#8220;Small mammal community responses to fuels reduction treatments in southwestern ponderosa pine forests. Solvesky&#8217;s presentation was titled &#8220;Roosts of Allen&#8217;s lappet-browed bat (Idionycteris phyllotis) in northern Arizona,&#8221; and was based on his thesis work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Abe Springer<\/strong>, associate professor of geology, was among a panel of experts who discussed water issues at a Prescott-area conference Feb. 10. Springer talked about how northern Arizona has been in the grips of a drought for 13 years. He said a U.S. Geological Survey computer model of regional underground water systems and a study about how plants and animals could react to river water losses, both due this year, should help decision-makers.<\/li>\n<li>Four NAU art education students wrote an article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/davis-art.com\/Portal\/SchoolArts\/articles\/3_08WhyGoToNAEA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Why Go to the National Art Education Conference?<\/a>&#8221; to be published in the March issue of\u00a0<em>SchoolArts<\/em>, a national periodical for art teachers. The four\u2014<strong>Tara Nunimaker<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jessica Bradley<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Erika Tsouras<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Jessica Davis<\/strong>\u2014also are members of the student chapter of the Art Education Association.Two other NAU art education students, senior\u00a0<strong>Neri Luzietti\u00a0<\/strong>and graduate student\u00a0<strong>Jovahna Pena<\/strong>, also will be published in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/davis-art.com\/Portal\/SchoolArts\/articles\/TOC308.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">March issue<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<em>SchoolArts<\/em>. Luzietti&#8217;s &#8220;A Quiet Landscape&#8221; and Pena&#8217;s &#8220;Mixed Media Self-Portrait&#8221; will be featured in the print copy of the magazine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Curtis Hinsley<\/strong>, chair of Humanities, Art, and Religion, and his co-author, David Wilcox at the Museum of Northern Arizona, received an unexpected grant for $25,000 from a trust fund in Boston for research, travel, writing and publication costs relating to the Hemenway Expedition project that has been ongoing for more than a decade.<\/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-13-2008\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and students Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to\u00a0Inside@nau.edu. Kiisa Nishikawa, Regents&#8217; Professor of biology, was invited to showcase her research and represent the Biological Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation at a press conference announcing the NSF budget Feb.&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"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-5973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}