{"id":65934,"date":"2022-04-18T13:43:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T20:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=65934"},"modified":"2022-04-18T13:43:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T20:43:31","slug":"in-the-spotlight-april-18-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-april-18-22\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Spotlight: April 18-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to these faculty, staff, students and programs<\/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><strong>Elle Kocourkova <\/strong>and <strong>Ekaterina Malakhova<\/strong> have earned a place on the Big Sky All-Conference First Team for women\u2019s golf. They are the first pair in nine years to both earn a spot in the First Team. Two other teammates earned all-conference honors, with <strong>Aleksandra Cehkalina<\/strong> placing on the Third Team and <strong>Ashley Croft<\/strong> receiving an honorable mention.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elinor Beazley<\/strong> has been named the Big Sky Women\u2019s Tennis Player of the Week for her 2-0 performance against the University of Idaho. This is NAU\u2019s fourth consecutive Women\u2019s Tennis Player of the Week award this season.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NAU\u2019s Track and Field team<\/strong> has recorded top conference and regional marks this past week.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Abdihamid Nur<\/strong> broke the Big Sky and NAU men\u2019s 1500-meter record.<\/li>\n<li><strong>George Kusche<\/strong>, <strong>Nico Young<\/strong>, <strong>Drew Bosley<\/strong>, <strong>Theo Quax<\/strong>, <strong>Caleb Easton<\/strong>, <strong>Bryn Morley<\/strong> and <strong>Elise Stearns<\/strong> all placed in the top 48 of the west region for the men\u2019s and women\u2019s 1500-meter races.<\/li>\n<li>Kusche, Nur, Bosley and Young placed in the top 48 of the region for the men\u2019s 5000-meter race.<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Dunlap<\/strong> ran a personal best to qualify for the regional 100-meter race.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Miracle Onyemaobi <\/strong>ran a personal best in the women\u2019s 400-meter race to place first for the conference and in the top-48 of the region. <strong>LiNay Perry<\/strong> and <strong>Kyairra Reigh<\/strong> placed second and third in the conference as well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mitchell Effing<\/strong> placed first in the conference and in the top 48 of the region for the men\u2019s long jump. <strong>Lily Margolis<\/strong> placed sixth in the conference for the women\u2019s long jump.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trevor Hook<\/strong> placed fourth in the conference for men\u2019s javelin, and <strong>McKenna Chaney<\/strong> placed sixth in the conference for women\u2019s hammer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ricardo Guthrie<\/strong>, associate professor of ethnic studies, has been awarded a third grant for his research on Black people and Route 66. Guthrie and the Southside Community Association at the Murdoch Community Center were awarded $25,000 from the Arizona Community Foundation for work resurrecting legacies and lived experiences of African Americans who traveled from the South to settle in Flagstaff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-april-18-22\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff, students and programs 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. Elle Kocourkova and Ekaterina Malakhova have earned a place on the Big Sky All-Conference First Team for women\u2019s golf. They are the first pair&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"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-65934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65934","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\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}