{"id":6117,"date":"2008-01-30T13:22:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T20:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2012-12-03T11:44:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T18:44:18","slug":"in-the-spotlight-jan-30-2008-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-jan-30-2008-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Jan. 30, 2008"},"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\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6122\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dance_med.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6122\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dance_med-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"NAU Dance Team\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2012\/11\/dance_med-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2012\/11\/dance_med.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the NAU dance team perform at the UDACDT National Championships last week.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Northern Arizona University dance team<\/strong>\u00a0finished fourth in Division 1 Hip Hop at the Universal Dance Association College Dance Team National Championships at Walt Disney World last week. The team competed against 24 other Division 1 schools before advancing to finals, where they out-performed teams from the University of Delaware, University of California-Davis, George Mason University, Southeastern Louisiana University, George Washington University, Idaho State University and Saint Joseph&#8217;s University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kathleen M. McGeever<\/strong>, chair of the theater department, had her short play,\u00a0<em>Tango in Paris<\/em>, selected for a stage reading at the Mid American Theatre Conference in Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 27-March 2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6123\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6123\" title=\"Ojeda_Cecilia\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ojeda_med.jpg\" alt=\"Cecilia Ojeda\" width=\"175\" height=\"214\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cecilia Ojeda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Cecilia Ojeda<\/strong>, chair of the Modern Languages, has been appointed as a\u00a0member of Gov. Janet Napolitano&#8217;s Arizona-Mexico Commission, a non-profit organization that works to improve the well-being and quality of life for Arizona residents by promoting a strong, cooperative relationship with Mexico and Latin America through advocacy, trade, networking and information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mary I. Dereshiwsky<\/strong>, associate professor of educational leadership, had two articles published in January: \u201cFive Things Your Online Students Will Notice\u201d in the\u00a0<em>E-Lern Newsletter\u00a0<\/em>and \u201cTips for Maximizing Student Self-Reliance\u201d in\u00a0<em>LERN Magazine.<\/em><\/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-30-2008-2\/\">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. The\u00a0Northern Arizona University dance team\u00a0finished fourth in Division 1 Hip Hop at the Universal Dance Association College Dance Team National Championships at Walt Disney World last week. The team competed against 24&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-6117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117","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=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}