{"id":69662,"date":"2023-07-26T08:58:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T15:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=69662"},"modified":"2023-07-26T08:58:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T15:58:43","slug":"in-the-spotlight-july-24-28-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-july-24-28-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: July 24-28, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In the Spotlight: July 24-28, 2023<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><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-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><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-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">E-mail your announcements to <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Inside@nau.edu<\/span><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><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusesp.com\/blog\/northern-arizona-university-3-tips-to-engage-spanish-speaking-families\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">CampusEsp<\/span><\/b><\/a> <span data-contrast=\"none\">named NAU as its 2023 ESP MVP.\u00a0NAU\u2019s proactive effort in supporting the Hispanic community has earned them a climbing Hispanic and first-generation population in their campus. By transitioning to a Spanish-friendly interface, they were able to support students from the community from their first admission\u2019s steps to creating an inclusive environment by providing resources along their four-year experience in college.<\/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=\"2\" 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=\"none\">Melanie Drain<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">, undergraduate research intern,\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Kyoungmee \u201cKate\u201d Byun,<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> associate professor of interior design and faculty leader, and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Shandiin Lake<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">, a research intern, were sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (OURCA) to present at the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) conference in Mexico City, in June. Enabling them to establish connections, spark discussions for future studies regarding their research on design and architecture all while immersing themselves in a different culture.<\/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=\"2\" 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 earned a spot in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/read.nxtbook.com\/aises\/winds_of_change\/29th_annual_special_college_i\/indiana_to_minnesota.html\"><span data-contrast=\"none\"><strong>American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)<\/strong>,<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> special college issue 2023\u20132024 edition, featuring the top 200 colleges for Indigenous students. In a continues effort to grow an Indigenous inclusive community in NAU, the issue helps remark statistical information and data about NAU and many other colleges, who want to find the right college based on their budget and major.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/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=\"2\" 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=\"none\">William Wagner<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">, a junior studying microbiology, along with a small team of cyclists are participating in the Ulman Foundation&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/4kforcancer.org\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">4k for Cancer fundraising ride<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> this summer. The 4k for cancer program motivates individuals to raise money from donors to participate in the ride from Baltimore to San Francisco.\u00a0Funds raised through the ride are donated to young people facing cancer and their families. Wagner\u2019s team raised more than $60,000 during their cycling journey.<\/span><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;335559685&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-24-28-2023\/\">In the Spotlight: July 24-28, 2023\u00a0 \u00a0Kudos to these faculty, staff, students and programs\u00a0 \u00a0Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?\u00a0 \u00a0E-mail your announcements to Inside@nau.edu, or use our online submission form.\u00a0 \u00a0CampusEsp named NAU as its 2023 ESP MVP.\u00a0NAU\u2019s proactive effort in supporting the Hispanic community has earned them&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"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-69662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69662","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\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}