{"id":6017,"date":"2012-01-13T14:55:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T21:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=6017"},"modified":"2012-11-20T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:58:22","slug":"in-the-spotlight-jan-13-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-jan-13-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Jan. 13, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/h2>\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><strong>Fredricka L. Stoller<\/strong>, English professor, recently had the second edition of her co-edited volume published by Alta Book Center Publishers.\u00a0<em>A Handbook for Language Program Administrators\u00a0<\/em>presents an accurate picture of the challenges faced by language program administrators in different contexts. It offers administrators problem-solving suggestions, strategies and guidelines.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew Alan Bowker<\/strong>, a researcher for the Soil Ecology Lab in the School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, and\u00a0<strong>Rebecca Lynn Mau<\/strong>, a graduate student in biology, coauthored with dozens of researchers an article in the journal\u00a0<em>Science<\/em>. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/335\/6065\/214.full\">article<\/a>, &#8220;Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands,&#8221; suggests that the preservation of plant biodiversity is crucial to buffer negative effects of climate change and desertification in drylands.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Karen Renner<\/strong>, English lecturer, and\u00a0<strong>Donelle Ruwe<\/strong>,\u00a0associate professor of English, presented research at the international meeting of the Modern Language\u00a0Association in Seattle last week.\u00a0Renner&#8217;s paper,\u00a0&#8220;Sensationalism in Temperance Literature,&#8221; discussed the way\u00a0in which\u00a0authors of antebellum American literature participated\u00a0in\u00a0the temperance movement. Ruwe&#8217;s paper, &#8220;The Mother Attitudes: Ann Taylor&#8217;s\u00a0<em>My Mother<\/em>, Lady Emma Hamilton, and the Rise of Sentimental Children&#8217;s Poetry,&#8221; looked at the reception history across the 19th century of a popular British Romantic era poem.<\/li>\n<li>A new book with ties to NAU reveals the \u201chuman side\u201d of ecological restoration.\u00a0<strong>Dave Egan<\/strong>, editor at NAU&#8217;s Ecological Restoration Institute, and\u00a0<strong>Yeon-Su Kim<\/strong>, associate professor with the School of Forestry, are among several authors from around the world who contributed to\u00a0<em>Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration: Integrating Science, Nature, and Culture.\u00a0<\/em>Egan also served as an editor for the book.\u00a0 The 26-chapter interdisciplinary study of the human aspects of ecological restoration works from the premise that the success of ecological restoration projects will depend more on public involvement, especially as projects become larger.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zsuzsanna Gulacsi<\/strong>, associate professor of art history and religious studies, recently delivered a series of four lectures to the \u00c9cole Pratique Des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne in Paris. Gulacsi\u2019s lectures covered her publications and ongoing research, titled \u201cContextualized Studies in the History of Manichaean Art Across the Asian Continent.\u201d The focus of her research included Jesus iconography, pictorial witnesses to the early gospel harmony known as the Diatessaron, West and Central Asian codicology and didactic arts used as illustrations of oral instructions in Asian religions.<\/li>\n<li>Six NAU students recently were selected for the spring semester to receive a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iie.org\/en\/Programs\/Gilman-Scholarship-Program\">Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship<\/a>, a program administered by the U.S. Department of State. This is the greatest number of NAU students chosen to receive the award in a single semester. Here are the selected undergraduate students, their major and the country in which they will study:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Justin Bigelow<\/strong>, secondary education, Estonia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christine Brunson<\/strong>, social work, South Africa<\/li>\n<li><strong>Magali Chavez<\/strong>, international studies, Japan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Martinez<\/strong>, communication studies, Italy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heather Plaza<\/strong>, modern languages, France<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sean Poole<\/strong>, biomedical science, United Kingdom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>NAU Relay for Life<\/strong>\u00a0has been named winner of the Office of Student Life\u2019s Rodney A. Mather Award. The award recognizes outstanding civic and university projects performed by recognized student organizations during an academic year. During the 2010-2011 academic year, more than 1,000 students participated in Relay for Life events to raise over $56,000 for the American Cancer Society. Participants also celebrated people who have battled cancer and remembered loved ones lost.<\/li>\n<li>Paintings by\u00a0<strong>John Cornelius<\/strong>\u00a0are on display in the Student Union Gallery located on the second floor of the University Union. Cornelius works as a painter for Capital Assets and also is a third-year art student taking classes for enrichment. &#8220;Regardless of reality, perception is always stronger than fact. I feel that impressionism is the way we really see things,\u201d he said. \u201cI like to show color, emotion and spontaneity.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-jan-13-2012\/\">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. Fredricka L. Stoller, English professor, recently had the second edition of her co-edited volume published by Alta Book Center Publishers.\u00a0A Handbook for Language Program Administrators\u00a0presents an accurate picture of the challenges faced&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-6017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017","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=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}