{"id":67140,"date":"2022-10-17T14:21:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T21:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=67140"},"modified":"2022-10-17T14:21:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T21:21:15","slug":"spotlight-oct-17-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-oct-17-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Oct. 17-21, 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;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\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;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\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><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=\"\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=\"none\">Sandra Bernice Gover <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">was recently appointed to the National Indian Education Association (NIEA) Board of Directors. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gover is a student in NAU\u2019s American Indian School Leadership program, expected to graduate in 2024 with her master\u2019s of education in educational leadership. Serving as a member of the board will allow her to use her voice to make positive changes in the world of Indigenous academia.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\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\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Associate professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Laura Wasylenki<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> from the School of Earth &amp; Sustainability and Department of Chemistry &amp; Biochemistry is a co-author on a new paper in Nature Geoscience. The paper, entitled &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-022-01045-7\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The biogeochemical balance of oceanic nickel cycling<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">,&#8221; aims to explain the marine distribution of nickel, which is an essential trace nutrient for a wide range of marine taxa. The study combined results of culturing studies of Ni-consuming organisms with a computational model of nickel cycling in the oceans. The model was grounded in thousands of Ni concentration analyses of seawater at all depths and all ocean basins. Wasylenki&#8217;s contribution to the study was to consider how the Ni distribution in the oceans may have varied in Earth&#8217;s ancient past, when different microorganisms were the dominant consumers of Ni and when Ni may have been a limiting nutrient for marine productivity.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-oct-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.\u00a0 Sandra Bernice Gover was recently appointed to the National Indian Education Association (NIEA) Board of Directors. 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