{"id":62070,"date":"2021-03-11T13:40:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T20:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=62070"},"modified":"2021-03-12T09:55:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T16:55:16","slug":"student-spotlight-march-12-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/student-spotlight-march-12-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Student Spotlight: March 12, 2021"},"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 <a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>, or use our <a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/news-tip\/#.YEjwNWhKg2w\">online submission form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Northern Arizona University <strong>Mock Trial Team<\/strong> finished 8th out of 20 teams at the American Mock Trial Association\u2019s virtual regional competition. Team members <strong>Marcos Hernandez<\/strong> and<strong> Taylor Ross<\/strong> won awards as outstanding witness and attorney, respectively.<\/li>\n<li>Doctoral student <strong>Haley Dunleavy<\/strong> and professor of biological sciences <strong>Michelle Mack<\/strong> co-authored the article, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0038071721000237?via%3Dihub\">Long-term experimental warming and fertilization have opposing effects on ectomycorrhizal root enzyme activity and fungal community composition in Arctic tundra<\/a>\u201d published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry. The study examined how deciduous shrubs and their symbiotic fungi respond to warming temperatures.<\/li>\n<li>Junior basketball player <strong>Cameron Shelton<\/strong> was voted to the Big Sky Conference\u2019s All-Big Sky First Team, the first NAU player voted to the First Team since 2015. Shelton was voted to the Preseason All-Conference Team and is the only player in the league to rank in the top 10 in all four statistical basketball categories.<\/li>\n<li>Three women\u2019s basketball players earned All-Big Sky Honors heading into the conference tournament. Junior <strong>Regan Schenck<\/strong> was named to the All-Big Sky Second Team, senior <strong>Khiarica Rasheed<\/strong> was named to the All-Big Sky Third Team, and <strong>JJ Nakai<\/strong> received Honorable Mention and was honored with the Big Sky Newcomer of the Year award.<\/li>\n<li>Junior golfer <strong>Elle Kocourkova<\/strong> received the Big Sky Women\u2019s Golfer of the Week award, the first of her career. This is the second time in three tournaments the NAU golf team has been awarded this honor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/student-spotlight-march-12-2021\/\">Kudos to these students Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to Inside@nau.edu, or use our online submission form. The Northern Arizona University Mock Trial Team finished 8th out of 20 teams at the American Mock Trial Association\u2019s virtual regional competition. Team members Marcos Hernandez and Taylor&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-62070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62070","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=62070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}