{"id":66733,"date":"2022-08-23T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T22:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=66733"},"modified":"2022-08-24T14:09:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T21:09:38","slug":"in-the-spotlight-aug-22-26-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-aug-22-26-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Aug. 22-26, 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;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\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;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\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;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Noto Sans Symbols\" 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;Noto Sans Symbols&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Robert Schehr<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, professor of criminology and criminal justice, recently completed a legal degree at Yale Law School, where he worked with some of the leading legal scholars in the United States on cutting-edge justice issues. Such continuing education allowed Schehr to improve his skills for his research and teaching. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Noto Sans Symbols\" 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;Noto Sans Symbols&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NAU School of Hotel and Restaurant Management <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is a platinum sponsor at the 37th annual Lodging Conference. This is an incredible networking opportunity for the School of HRM to be in the eyes of more than 2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">000 executives from more than 1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">150 companies registered for the conference.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Noto Sans Symbols\" 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;Noto Sans Symbols&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Sharon Moses<\/strong>, an associate professor of anthropology, discussed forensic archaeology and locating victims of &#8220;no-body&#8221; homicides on the <a href=\"https:\/\/forensicrti.org\/just-science-episode-219-just-forensic-archaeology-and-body-dump-sites\/\">Just Science podcast<\/a>, a production of Research Triangle Institutional International. Moses discussed the relationship between forensic anthropology and archaeology, how to reconstruct human and animal behaviors and her experiences recovering human remains.<\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Noto Sans Symbols\" 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;Noto Sans Symbols&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Associate professor of astronomy and planetary science (APS) <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mark Loeffler<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, Michelle Thompson, APS professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Josh Emery<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and planetary scientist Driss Takir received funding for their SSW proposal titled &#8220;Determining the Role of Space Weathering on Hydrated Asteroids through Laboratory Studies.&#8221; This three-year, $601,926 award will allow the team to look at how space weathering affects hydrated minerals&#8217; 3-micron region through a combination of reflectance spectroscopy, surface chemical analysis and electron microscopy. Much of the preliminary data for this award was done with support from NAU&#8217;s HURA and Space Grant programs; as for the work to follow, the majority of the experiments and analysis will be performed at NAU, while the electron microscopy will be performed at Purdue.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Noto Sans Symbols\" 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;Noto Sans Symbols&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><strong>NAU<\/strong> is listed on <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/environmental-science-climate-college-program-degree-1849355055\">Gizmodo&#8217;s Degrees of the Future 2022: Environmental Science &amp; Climate Change list<\/a>. This list aims to provide guidance to students looking for a university program in this area and highlight universities who are excelling in the field.<\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Noto Sans Symbols\" 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;Noto Sans Symbols&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">David Trilling<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, chair and associate professor of the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, had a proposal funded by the National Science Foundation: &#8220;Rapid response asteroid science from ZTF and LSST data.&#8221; The three-year, $452,885 fund will allow this project to ingest data from an ongoing all-sky survey and continue to prepare software tools for a bigger upcoming survey.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Noto Sans Symbols\" 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;Noto Sans Symbols&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Trilling<span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and recent APS Ph.D. graduate <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Colin Chandler <\/span><\/b>are<span data-contrast=\"auto\"> among a long list of authors on a new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2208.02781\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">LSST paper<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0This paper discusses <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">the motivating science use cases, identifies cross-cutting algorithms, software, and services, their high-level technical specifications, and the principles of inclusive collaborations needed to develop them.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Noto Sans Symbols\" 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;Noto Sans Symbols&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Christopher Edwards<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, associate professor in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, had a NASA PDART proposal funded to improve thermal model capabilities for the planetary science community. This proposal includes support for postdoctoral scholar <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Christopher Haberle<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and involves individuals from JPL and the USGS. Funding will last three years, starting in December, for a total of $783,000. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Noto Sans Symbols\" 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;Noto Sans Symbols&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lumberjack Volleyball<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> tied for fifth with Sacramento State in the 2022 Big Sky Preseason\u00a0 Coaches Poll. The top eight teams at the end of the regular season will qualify for the Big Sky Championship hosted by Weber State from Nov. 23-26.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Noto Sans Symbols\" 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;Noto Sans Symbols&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Anastasia Morgan<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, incoming doctoral student of astronomy, is the first author on a paper. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2207.05963\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Detection Feasibility of H2 in Ultra-hot Jupiter Atmospheres<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d also is co-authored by faculty <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cristina Thomas<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Emery<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and adjunct faculty <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Will Grundy<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Noto Sans Symbols\" 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;Noto Sans Symbols&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A multi-institutional team led by graduate student <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Aaron Weintraub<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> recently had a paper published examining the compositional and thermophysical variability of preserved bedforms across the surface of Mars. This work indicates there\u2019s minimal water-rock interaction needed to preserve the full shape of the features. The paper, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2022JE007345\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Thermophysical and Compositional Properties of Paleobedforms on Mars<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d includes Edwards as a co-author.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Noto Sans Symbols\" 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;Noto Sans Symbols&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Astronomy doctoral student <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Oriel Humes i<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s a co-author on <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a paper titled<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2207.11390\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Lucy Mission Targets with the Hubble Space Telescope<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d with <\/span>Thomas<b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><\/b>Emery<span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <\/span>Grundy as <span data-contrast=\"auto\">co-authors. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Lucy mission aims to understand the dynamical history of the Solar System by examining the Jupiter Trojans, a population of primitive asteroids co-orbital with Jupiter.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Noto Sans Symbols\" 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;Noto Sans Symbols&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Incoming Ph.D. student <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Alicia Allen<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> is a co-author on a new article, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abm1018\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Spacecraft sample collection and subsurface excavation of asteroid (101955) Bennu<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d that was recently published in Science. The article describes the sample collection process and the team\u2019s observations of the asteroid.<\/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-aug-22-26-2022\/\">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 Robert Schehr, professor of criminology and criminal justice, recently completed a legal degree at Yale Law School, where he worked with some of the&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"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-66733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66733","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}