{"id":64488,"date":"2021-11-08T16:28:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T23:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=64488"},"modified":"2021-11-08T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T23:34:42","slug":"in-the-spotlight-nov-8-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-nov-8-12\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Nov. 8-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kudos to these faculty, staff, students and programs<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">E-mail your announcements to\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Inside@nau.edu<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, or use our\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/news-tip\/#.YEjwNWhKg2w\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">online submission form<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kristin Leonard<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, a Ph.D.\u00a0student in the Department of Educational Specialties, has written and published a poetry book named \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrybox.com\/bookstore\/ninetieth-day\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Ninetieth Day: Poems about Love, Loss, and Leftovers for Breakfast<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u201d being released on Dec. 1.\u00a0The book is a collection of poetry that seeks to explore the everyday moments and musings in life that linger between love and loss.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ellaine\u00a0Villano\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Yasmin Leon<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, undergraduate students from the Traustadottir Lab in the School of Biological Sciences, won first prize for best oral presentation\u00a0in the\u00a0undergraduate category at the Arizona Physiological Society Annual Meeting, held at Midwestern University in Glendale.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kevin Daniels\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Morgan Vest<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, players on the NAU football team, both received the ROOT SPORTS Player of the Week Honors from the Big Sky Conference\u00a0following the team\u2019s victory in Moscow, Idaho.\u00a0This is Daniels\u2019s first honor of his\u00a0career, and Vest is the first\u00a0defensive\u00a0player to earn player of the week honors multiple times this season.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Two students on the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NAU Speech and Debate team<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">recently took home awards\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at the Point Loma Nazarene University Debate Tournament. <\/span>Senior<b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Riley\u00a0Smelkinson<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0placed first in the Dramatic Interpretation,\u00a0and\u00a0senior\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cameron Baird<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0placed fifth in the After Dinner Speaking category.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Laura\u00a0Umphrey<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, director of the School of Communication, co-authored an article titled, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s42844-021-00049-3\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Resilience, Identity Tension, Hope, Social Capital, and Psychological Stress During a Pandemic<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u201d The article was published in the Journal of Research and Practice for Adversity and Resilience Science and examines two conceptual approaches to defining the resilience and the implications for its effect on psychological stress.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Howard Qi<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, professor in The W.\u00a0A. Franke College of Business, was featured in a recent\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/personal-loans\/home-improvement-loans#Hao_(Howard)_Qi\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">WalletHub article<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0focusing on home improvement loans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Assistant professor of practice<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Robert Cannon<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0students\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kevin Morales\u00a0and\u00a0Vanessa Lister<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0senior lecturer<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Mark Molinaro\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and\u00a0assistant professor<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Muhittin Cavusoglu<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0all\u00a0in the School of Hotel and Restaurant Management,\u00a0along with\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NAU Admissions Team<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0attended the\u00a0recent\u00a0Family, Career and Community Leaders of America Fall Leadership\u00a0Conference\u00a0at the Phoenix Convention Center to recruit culinary high school students.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">El\u00edas Villarreal<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, program director and chair of the Department of Physician Assistant Studies, has been named to a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) advisory committee by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. He was appointed to the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">,\u00a0which encourages health care students to work in underserved communities.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ari Koeppel<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, an astronomy and planetary science Ph.D. student, was recently published in <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Geology<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0It is titled \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.geoscienceworld.org\/gsa\/geology\/article\/doi\/10.1130\/G49285.1\/608434\/A-fragile-record-of-fleeting-water-on-Mars\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">A fragile record of fleeting water on Mars<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d and is his second\u00a0first-author paper.\u00a0Associate professor\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Christopher Edwards<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and former NAU student Gabriel\u00a0Carillo\u00a0co-authored the paper.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Astronomy and planetary science Ph.D. student <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Erin\u00a0Aadland<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0had a paper\u00a0recently published. She is the first author of \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2110.14093\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Physical Parameters of Four WC-type Wolf-Rayet\u00a0Stars in the Large\u00a0Magellanic\u00a0Cloud: Evidence of Evolution<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Astrophysical Journal<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Sophomore <strong>Millie O&#8217;Ketter<\/strong> was named Big Sky Defensive Player of the Week after standout performances against Southern Utah and Sacramento State in the last week. O&#8217;Ketter is the second Lumberjack to earn Big Sky Player of the Week honors this season and the first for a defensive nod.<\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Schuyler Borges<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, an\u00a0astronomy and\u00a0planetary\u00a0science Ph.D. student, and\u00a0associate professor\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mark Salvatore<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0were recently published in the\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">International Journal of Remote Sensing<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The article is titled \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/01431161.2021.1981559\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Counting Carbon: Quantifying Biomass in the McMurdo Dry Valleys through Orbital &amp; Field Observations<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Undergraduate student\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Beau Prince<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and associate professor of astronomy and planetary science <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mark Loeffler<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0wrote \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0019103521003900?via%3Dihub\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Space weathering of the 3-\u03bcm phyllosilicate feature induced by pulsed laser irradiation<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u201d which was recently published. This\u00a0work is the first study to look at how the 3-micron absorption band is altered by simulated\u00a0micrometeorite impacts in meteorite analogs that have undergone high\u00a0degrees of aqueous alteration.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">David Trilling<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0chair\u00a0and professor in the department of\u00a0Astronomy\u00a0and Planetary Science, was recently appointed to the\u00a0National Science Foundation\u2019s\u00a0NOIRLab\u00a0Data Science Advisory Group\u00a0for a three-year term.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Astronomy and Planetary Science assistant professor\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Tyler Robinson<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was selected to join\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/researchers\/nac\/science-advisory-committees\/pac\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">NASA\u2019s Planetary Science Advisory Committee<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0In this role, and alongside other committee members,\u00a0Robinson\u00a0will be providing guidance to NASA on issues related to all NASA planetary science programs<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-nov-8-12\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff, students and programs\u00a0 Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?\u00a0 E-mail your announcements to\u00a0Inside@nau.edu, or use our\u00a0online submission form.\u00a0 Kristin Leonard, a Ph.D.\u00a0student in the Department of Educational Specialties, has written and published a poetry book named \u201cThe Ninetieth Day: Poems about Love, Loss, and&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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-64488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64488","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}