{"id":6727,"date":"2008-02-27T13:38:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T20:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2012-12-03T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T18:19:07","slug":"spotlight-2-27-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-2-27-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Feb. 27, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2><strong>Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\n<p>E-mail your announcements to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jason McDonald<\/strong>, a senior international affairs major and program host on the student-run KJACK radio, was named a winner in the Broadcast Education Association&#8217;s Audio Festival Competition. McDonald took third place in the Specialty Programming category for his show, &#8220;Big Mouth Talking,&#8221; which airs Tuesdays at 5 p.m. on KJACK, and also can be heard\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kjack.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>. McDonald will receive his award at the association&#8217;s conference in Las Vegas in April.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Department of Psychology\u00a0<\/strong>announced it will receive a grant from the National Science Foundation for the Research Experience for Undergraduates Summer Internship program, which creates research opportunities for under-represented minority students. The three-year, $300,000 grant will fund six students each summer to work with NAU psychology professors in conducting research in social, developmental, health and cognitive neuroscience psychology.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mary I. Dereshiwsky<\/strong>, associate professor of educational leadership, made an invited presentation titled, &#8220;Continual Engagement: Why It&#8217;s Important in Effective Online Instruction,&#8221; at the Faculty Development Institute sponsored by the Learning Resources Network in Savannah, Ga., on Feb. 25.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zennoma Richardson<\/strong>, a nursing student, won the Nurses in Washington Internship essay contest that was sponsored by the National Student Nurses\u2019 Association. The essay will be published in\u00a0<em>Imprint<\/em>, the association&#8217;s professional magazine for nursing students, and Richardson will be sponsored for a trip to the Nurse In Washington Internship annual conference March 9-11 in Washington, D.C. She also will receive complimentary registration for the National Student Nurses Association annual convention March 26-30 in Grapevine, Texas, along with the opportunity to present her work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-2-27-2008\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and students Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to\u00a0Inside@nau.edu. Jason McDonald, a senior international affairs major and program host on the student-run KJACK radio, was named a winner in the Broadcast Education Association&#8217;s Audio Festival Competition. McDonald took third place in&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"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-6727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}