{"id":66407,"date":"2022-06-28T09:16:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=66407"},"modified":"2022-06-28T16:39:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T23:39:52","slug":"in-the-spotlight-june-27-to-july-1-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-june-27-to-july-1-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: June 27 to July 1, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">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=\"auto\">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=\"auto\">E-mail your announcements to <\/span><a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Inside@nau.edu<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 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=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&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=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&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=\"auto\">Rising junior <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ekaterina Malakhova<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> rose back to the top at the Russian Amateur Championship, posting her fourth career win at the tournament on Friday with a four-round score of 1-over par 289. NAU was well represented at the Russian Amateur Championships, placing three golfers in the top five overall with graduate student <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Aleksandra Chekalina<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and incoming freshman <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Nina Lukyanenko<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> tying for third and fifth respectively.<\/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=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&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\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NAU Communications and NAU Social won Gold awards at the 2022 CASE Gold Circle of Excellence awards. Communications manager <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Carly Banks<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and assistant manager <strong>McKenzie McLoughlin<\/strong> were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.case.org\/awards\/circle-excellence\/2022\/fit-it-minute-sara-maltinsky\">recognized<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/sara-maltinsky\/\">Fit it in a Minute<\/a> on <strong>Sara Maltinsky\u2019s<\/strong> research, and social media manager <strong>Maria Decabooter<\/strong> and senior coordinator <strong>Austin Young <\/strong>won for the campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.case.org\/awards\/circle-excellence\/2022\/lets-axe-covid-together\">Let&#8217;s Axe Covid Together<\/a>. The <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.case.org\/awards\/circle-excellence\">Circle of Excellence Awards<\/a><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0celebrates the creative, resourceful and innovative ways advancement professionals around the globe champion their institutions\u2019 success.<\/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=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&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\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">School of Forestry undergraduate students <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Addie Jones, Steven Longbons, Cole Brant<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Austin Cash<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and grad students <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Noah Haarmann<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Scott Franz<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> from the Student Association for Fire Ecology Club went to Georgia to learn how to burn safely.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&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\">Regents&#8217; professor <strong>Yiqi Luo<\/strong> and research scientist <strong>Lifen Jiang<\/strong> of the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society are part of an international team that published the paper, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1029\/2022MS003008\">Matrix approach to unify land carbon cycle models<\/a>,&#8221; in the <em>Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Science<\/em> this week. The result of 10 years developing the approach, Luo and the team describe how the matrix framework brings simplicity and consistency to the complex models that predict earth&#8217;s future climate and ecosystem changes, accelerates model spin-up time, and offers a way to integrate big data sets and improve model accuracy.<\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&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\">Students in history professor <strong>Michael Amundson&#8217;s<\/strong> public history class created online tours of several historical sites throughout the Intermountain West as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intermountainhistories.org\/\">Intermountain Histories project<\/a>. The collaborative projects features carefully researched histories developed by students and professors from throughout the region.\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intermountainhistories.org\/tours\/show\/50\">Second Empire Architecture in the Intermountain West<\/a>, curated by <strong>William R. Batson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intermountainhistories.org\/tours\/show\/51\">&#8220;Parkitecture&#8221; in Intermountain National Parks<\/a>, curated by <strong>Jennifer John<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intermountainhistories.org\/tours\/show\/52\">Women&#8217;s Organizations at the Turn of the Century: Community and Empowerment<\/a>, curated by <strong>Amy Megowan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intermountainhistories.org\/tours\/show\/53\">American Fur Trade Rendezvous Sites<\/a>, curated by <strong>Emily Roth<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intermountainhistories.org\/tours\/show\/54\">Historic Women&#8217;s Suffrage Sites<\/a>, curated by <strong>Megan Salinas<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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-27-to-july-1-2022\/\">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.\u00a0 Rising junior Ekaterina Malakhova rose back to the top at the Russian Amateur Championship, posting her fourth career win at the tournament on Friday&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-66407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66407","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=66407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}