{"id":69942,"date":"2023-09-11T14:57:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T21:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=69942"},"modified":"2023-09-13T16:39:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T23:39:01","slug":"in-the-spotlight-sep-11-15-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-sep-11-15-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Sept. 11-15, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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-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><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><strong>James Bowie<\/strong>, professor in the Department of Sociology, was interviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/area-codes-3-digit-608-353-south-central-southwestern\">Wisconsin Public Radio<\/a> about the cultural implications of the 608 local area telephone code, which expected to run out of assignable prefixes by the beginning of 2024. Bowie, who studies logos, talked about how area codes can become part of a business\u2019s branding.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NAU<\/strong> ranked No. 16 on the fourth annual College Free Speech Rankings, done the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and College Pulse. The survey evaluated 248 colleges and universities on comprehensive comparison of the student experience of free speech on their campuses.<\/li>\n<li>Alumnus <strong>Alan Saquella<\/strong> co-authored a book, &#8220;Security Investigations: A Professional Guide&#8221; release. The book is the culmination of Saquella\u2019s 30 years of research into security investigations in both public and private sectors.<\/li>\n<li>Eight students in the Department of Theatre\u2014<strong>Alexis Connel<\/strong>, <strong>Jaden Roberts<\/strong>, <strong>Ahren Boender<\/strong>, <strong>Asher Robinson<\/strong>, <strong>Isabel Dial<\/strong>, <strong>Manuel Santana-Propper<\/strong>, <strong>Naomi Rusk<\/strong> and <strong>Sydnee Nicole Messerschmidt<\/strong>\u2014attended the US Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) conference along with theatre faculty <strong>Ben Alexander<\/strong> and <strong>Cathryn Ellis<\/strong>, in spring 2023. Five of them were awarded travel grants from the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity to attend the conference. Additionally, Robinson, Dial Santana-Propper, Rusk and Messerschmidt found employment with the connections they made at that conference.<\/li>\n<li>NAU alumna <strong>Vicki Mayo<\/strong> invented TouchPoints, high-tech wearable devices, designed to improve the cruise travelers\u2019 experience by reducing the stress and anxiety often associated with cruising. <strong>Frederick DeMicco<\/strong>, executive director and professor in the School of Hotel and Restaurant Management along with Mayo later released an article titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalitynet.org\/news\/4117686.html\">Enhancing the Cruise Experience with Wearable TouchPoints Stress Relief,<\/a>\u201d to further explain the research behind and use of TouchPoints.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scott Goetz<\/strong>, a Regents&#8217; professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, was elected a fellow of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agu.org\/honors\/announcement\">American Geophysical Union<\/a>, an honor awarded to only o.1 percent of the 160,000 members. He was honored for advancing our understanding of changes in the global terrestrial biosphere using remote sensing observations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-sep-11-15-2023\/\">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 James Bowie, professor in the Department of Sociology, was interviewed by Wisconsin Public Radio about the cultural implications of the 608 local area telephone&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-69942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69942","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=69942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}