{"id":66538,"date":"2022-07-13T10:36:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T17:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=66538"},"modified":"2022-07-19T10:41:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T17:41:26","slug":"in-the-spotlight-july-11-16-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-july-11-16-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: July 11-16, 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;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\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Frederick DeMicco<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, executive director and professor of School of Hotel and Restaurant Management<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> authored the article, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Halal Cuisine Could Provide a Competitive Advantage in Hotels and Resorts.\u201d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> This article looks at how food branded as halal is increasing consumerism in the restaurant industry.<\/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;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\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Aleksandra Chekalina <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Elle Kocourkova<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> represented the NAU golf team on the Women\u2019s Golf Coaches Association\u2019s All-American Scholar list, one of the toughest Scholar Teams to qualify for in all of college athletics. This is <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kocourkova<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2019s<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">fourth career WGCA All-American Scholar honor; she is the only Lumberjack golfer in program history to earn four such awards. This is\u00a0 <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0second honor of her career.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>A recent paper looking at biocrust adaptation to novel climates was published in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fmicb.2022.821860\/full\">Frontiers in Microbiology<\/a>.\u00a0<strong>Anita Antoninka<\/strong>\u00a0of the School of Forestry was the lead author, and co-authors include\u00a0<strong>Pete Chuckran <\/strong>and<strong> Rebecca Mau<\/strong> of the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, and <strong>Matthew Bowker<\/strong> of the School of Forestry. The study demonstrated that\u00a0biocrusts are sensitive to climate change and a transplant experiment revealed that mature biocrusts do better in cooler wetter environments than their home.<\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" 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=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A new article on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0016706122001513?via%3Dihub\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">carbon\/livestock grazing in semi-arid grasslands<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> was published in <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Geoderma<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The authors include graduate student <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Megan Dean McKenna<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Nancy Collins Johnson <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">from the School of Earth and Sustainability and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Anita <\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Antoninka<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, faculty in the School of Forestry. The article discusses how organic and inorganic soil carbon in semi-arid rangeland is primarily related to abiotic factors and not livestock grazing.<\/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;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=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Once again, The NAU\u2019s women&#8217;s tennis team was named an Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-Academic Team for the ninth time in the past 11 years. Additionally, <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Elinor Beazley<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Annabel Davis<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gina Dittmann<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> earned ITA Scholar-Athlete honors. For <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Beazley<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, it is the third honor of her career in her third season with the Lumberjacks<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> while <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dittmann<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> earned her second in as many seasons and <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Davis<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> her first in her first collegiate season.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-july-11-16-2022\/\">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. Frederick DeMicco, executive director and professor of School of Hotel and Restaurant Management, authored the article, \u201cHalal Cuisine Could Provide a Competitive Advantage in&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-66538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66538","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=66538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}