{"id":66036,"date":"2022-04-26T08:38:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=66036"},"modified":"2022-04-26T14:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T21:26:03","slug":"nau-spotlights-april-25-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-spotlights-april-25-29\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU Spotlights: April 25-29"},"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>Cancer Support Community AZ selected <strong>Northern Arizona University<\/strong> for its 2021-22 Community Partner Award.\u00a0Faculty, staff and students volunteered time to help with various events throughout the years, including social work and counseling interns from NAU\u2019s programs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alan Lew<\/strong>, a professor in the Department of Geography, Planning &amp; Recreation, received the International Geographical Union\u2019s Laur\u00e9at d\u2019Honneur for his substantial contributions as chair of the Commission of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change and his work as organizer of IGU events during his term as chair. He will be given the award at the IGU Extraordinary Geographical Congress in Paris in July.<\/li>\n<li>Philosophy student <strong>Jack Ryan<\/strong> was a featured external reviewer, along with a student from India and a student from the UK, for Ball State\u2019s undergraduate philosophy journal\u00a0Stance. Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stancephilosophy.com\/featured-external-reviewers\">Ryan\u2019s work<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Sophomore women\u2019s tennis player <strong>Sofia Markova<\/strong> earned her first career Big Sky Conference Women\u2019s Tennis Player of the Week award after winning matches against Portland State and Grand Canyon. This is the fifth consecutive week a Lumberjack has received this award and the fifth different player to do so.<\/li>\n<li>NAU\u2019s football, volleyball, soccer and men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s cross country teams combined for 62 Fall All-Academic awards in the Big Sky Conference. To be eligible for Big Sky All-Academic honors, a student-athlete must have met and\/or exceeded the following minimum requirements: 1) Participated in at least half of the team\u2019s competitions; 2) Achieved a 3.2 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at the conclusion of the most recently completed term; 3) Completed at least one academic term at his\/her current Big Sky institution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Football<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DJ Arnson<\/strong> \u2013 Gr. \u2013 Exploratory PB<\/li>\n<li><strong>Noah Barta<\/strong> \u2013 R-Fr. \u2013 Information Systems<\/li>\n<li><strong>Harrison Beemiller<\/strong> \u2013 Gr. \u2013 Educational Leadership<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heath Beemiller<\/strong> \u2013 R-So. \u2013 Marketing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Max Flores<\/strong> \u2013 R-Fr. \u2013 Biomedical Science<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Haen<\/strong> \u2013 Fr. \u2013 Business Economics<\/li>\n<li><strong>Draycen Hall<\/strong> \u2013 Fr. \u2013 Spanish<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justin Hathoot<\/strong> \u2013 Gr. \u2013 Human Relations<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hendrix Johnson<\/strong> \u2013 So. \u2013 Strategic Communication<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew Kempton<\/strong> \u2013 Gr. \u2013 Human Relations<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joshua Maignan<\/strong> \u2013 Fr. \u2013 Management<\/li>\n<li><strong>AJ Maluia<\/strong> \u2013 Fr. \u2013 Strategic Communication<\/li>\n<li><strong>RJ Martinez<\/strong> \u2013 Fr. \u2013 Management<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cale Millen<\/strong> \u2013 R-Fr. \u2013 University Studies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tavian Montgomery<\/strong> \u2013 So. \u2013 Interdisciplinary Studies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coleman Owen<\/strong> \u2013 R-Fr. \u2013 Finance<\/li>\n<li><strong>PJ Poutasi<\/strong> \u2013 R-Jr. \u2013 Exploratory PB<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jorim Powell<\/strong> \u2013 R-So. \u2013 Health Science-Fitness Wellness<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jake Schmitt<\/strong> \u2013 Fr. \u2013 Business Economics<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dyvine Wallace<\/strong> \u2013 R-Jr. \u2013 Exploratory PB<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jeff Widener<\/strong> \u2013 R-Fr. \u2013 Management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Volleyball<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aubrea Bandfield<\/strong> \u2013 Sr. \u2013 Marketing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Savannah Bloom<\/strong> \u2013 So. \u2013 Management<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ryann Davis<\/strong> \u2013 Sr. \u2013 Marketing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jordan Elder<\/strong> \u2013 So. \u2013 Business Economics<\/li>\n<li><strong>Morgan Gappmayer<\/strong> \u2013 R-Jr. \u2013 Elementary Education<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kate Hatch<\/strong> \u2013 So. \u2013 Exercise Science<\/li>\n<li><strong>Neche Newton<\/strong> \u2013 Jr. \u2013 Environmental &amp; Sustainability Studies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Millie O\u2019Ketter<\/strong> \u2013 So. \u2013 Elementary Education<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sophia Wadsworth<\/strong> \u2013 Fr. \u2013 Business Economics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Men\u2019s Cross Country<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Drew Bosley<\/strong> \u2013 Jr. \u2013 Journalism<\/li>\n<li><strong>Caleb Easton<\/strong> \u2013 Jr. \u2013 Marketing<\/li>\n<li><strong>George Kusche<\/strong> \u2013 Gr. \u2013 Statistics<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kang Nyoak<\/strong> \u2013 So. \u2013 Exercise Science<\/li>\n<li><strong>Theo Quax<\/strong> \u2013 Jr. \u2013 Civil Engineering<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ryan Raff<\/strong> \u2013 Jr. \u2013 Psychological Sciences<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nico Young<\/strong> \u2013 So. \u2013 Exercise Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Women\u2019s Cross Country<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jesselyn Bries<\/strong> \u2013 Sr. \u2013 Special &amp; 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E-mail your announcements to Inside@nau.edu, or use our online submission form. Cancer Support Community AZ selected Northern Arizona University for its 2021-22 Community Partner Award.\u00a0Faculty, staff and students volunteered time to help with various events&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-66036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66036","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=66036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}