{"id":69830,"date":"2023-08-22T11:50:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=69830"},"modified":"2023-08-22T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:50:22","slug":"in-the-spotlight-aug-21-25-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-aug-21-25-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Aug. 21-25, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In the Spotlight: Aug. 21-25, 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<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> 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><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ty Holliday<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">, who is studying geography, environment and society, has been named a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/news\/2023\/08\/transportation-research-board-announces-21-minority-student-fellows-for-2024\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Transportation Research Board (TRB) Minority Student Fellow<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> for their impressive transportation field and in TRB activities diversity development research. Holliday will present their research in early January at TRB\u2019s Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"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-listid=\"2\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Yimin Wang<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">, a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">ssistant professor for educational leadership and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> v<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">ice provost for global affairs, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">was appointed as the new Coconino County representative of the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/story\/5529491\/gov-katie-hobbs-names-appointees-to-arizona-mexico-commission\/\">Arizona-Mexico Commission Board of Directors<\/a>.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> As part of the commission, Wang will help ensure partnerships to create jobs, as well as help grow the economy, promote cultural exchange and help keep every community safe.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/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-21-25-2023\/\">In the Spotlight: Aug. 21-25, 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 \u00a0Ty Holliday, who is studying geography, environment and society, has been named a Transportation Research Board (TRB) Minority&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-69830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69830","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=69830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}