{"id":66326,"date":"2022-06-14T12:28:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T19:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=66326"},"modified":"2022-06-14T12:28:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T19:28:02","slug":"in-the-spotlight-june-13-17-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-june-13-17-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: June 13-17, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Kudos to these faculty, staff, students and programs.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">E-mail your announcements to <\/span><a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Inside@nau.edu<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">, or use our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/news-tip\/#.YEjwNWhKg2w\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">online submission form<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;134225954&quot;:true,&quot;134225961&quot;:true,&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Regents&#8217; professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Michelle Mack<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> of the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/trees-help-curb-climate-change-can-also-contribute-warming-reducing-earths-reflectivity\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a> in May as part of a story on the complex ways forests could affect future climate. \u201cI thought there was no way these [deciduous] forests could recover the carbon they lost in the fire,\u201d Mack said, but a <a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/nau-research\/carbon-loss\/\">recent study<\/a> she led published in Science last year found deciduous trees that moved in after fire in boreal forests recouped carbon losses from the spruce forests that burned.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&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-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;134225954&quot;:true,&quot;134225961&quot;:true,&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Jut Wynne<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">, assistant research professor\u00a0in the Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Adaptable Western Landscapes, authored a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/hbs.bishopmuseum.org\/pubs-online\/pdf\/op147.pdf\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">recently published paper<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> with three other scientists. \u201cRange extension of the endemic terrestrial isopod Hawaiioscia rapui reveals the dispersal potential of the genus across the South Pacific&#8221; discusses how this &#8220;canoe bug&#8221; may have been dispersed by the ancient Polynesians.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&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-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;134225954&quot;:true,&quot;134225961&quot;:true,&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">NAU men\u2019<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"><strong>s track<\/strong> <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">and field <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">team had a great run at Hayward Field. <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Abdihamid Nur <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">added a 10,000-meter bronze medal to his collection, <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">David Dunlap<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> earned second-team All-American honors in the 200-meter and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">George Kusche<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> qualified for the 1500-meter finals.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&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-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;134225954&quot;:true,&quot;134225961&quot;:true,&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">On top of earning a third consecutive <\/span>Big Sky Conference<span data-contrast=\"none\"> championship, as well as a third NCAA Tournament berth, the <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">NAU\u2019s women&#8217;s tennis team<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> landed No. 8 in the ITA Division I Women&#8217;s Mountain Region Rankings released this week, finishing among the Top 10 of the ITA Mountain Region for the sixth straight year. Sophomore <strong>Gina Dittmann<\/strong>, the Big Sky Conference MVP and All-Big Sky First Team singles honoree for a second consecutive year, landed at No. 2 in the Mountain Region following a 16-2 season with all 18 matches coming at No. 1.<br \/>\n<\/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-june-13-17-2022\/\">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 Inside@nau.edu, or use our online submission form. Regents&#8217; professor Michelle Mack of the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society spoke to Science in May as part of a story on the&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"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-66326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66326","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\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}