{"id":7204,"date":"2008-03-12T16:16:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T23:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=7204"},"modified":"2012-12-12T13:50:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T20:50:53","slug":"spotlight-3-12-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-3-12-08\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: March 12, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<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<ul>\n<li><strong>Laura Lyn<\/strong>, psychologist and training coordinator at NAU&#8217;s Counseling and Testing Center, traveled to the Northern Illinois University campus in DeKalb, Ill., last month to help the campus recover after a gunman there killed five students and wounded 18 others. Lyn\u2014who specializes in working with the university student population\u2014volunteered in the counseling center to assist with students in crisis.&#8221; Although NIU received a tremendous response to its request for volunteer counselors, few had experience counseling college students in a university setting,&#8221; she said, adding that she remained very busy helping students who were struggling to return to the first days of classes. &#8220;The NIU counseling center staff greatly appreciated the help. I felt I made a real contribution.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Nursing student\u00a0<strong>Andrew Cusick<\/strong>\u00a0is one of five winners of the Sprit of Caring award by the Sharp HealthCare Foundation in San Diego, where he works at Sharp Memorial Hospital. Cusick will receive $1,000 for education expenses. Cusick also recently received the Most Valuable Player award by the Trauma Service for his &#8220;consistently kind and supportive approach with patients and families and his astute attention to detail.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Susan Ferguson<\/strong>, a graduate teaching assistant in English, along with Dennis Fritz of Kansas City, Mo., received a 2007 Prevention for a Safer Society Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for the publication of Fritz&#8217;s memoir,\u00a0<em>Journey Toward Justice<\/em>. Ferguson was Fritz&#8217;s editor and writing coach on the project.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thom Alcoze<\/strong>, professor in the School of Forestry, gave the keynote address at the 2008 Territorial Adult Educators Conference on March 7 in Yellowknife, Canada. His presentation, &#8220;Aboriginal Science: Validity and Application,&#8221; addressed how teaching science in concert with elders&#8217; knowledge promotes positive learning environments and reflects the validity of cultural practices refined over multiple generations.Alcoze also gave a workshop presentation titled, &#8220;First Nations Culture Based Science,&#8221; which engaged teachers with examples that demonstrate the extent to which scientific understanding is infused throughout the culture and traditions if indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mary I. Dereshiwsky<\/strong>, associate professor of educational leadership, made an invited presentation titled, &#8220;How to Communicate with Students About Grades,&#8221; at the Multiple Assessments and New Ways of Grading web-based conference on March 5 and 6, sponsored by the Learning Resources Network. She also served as moderator of this conference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-3-12-08\/\">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. Laura Lyn, psychologist and training coordinator at NAU&#8217;s Counseling and Testing Center, traveled to the Northern Illinois University campus in DeKalb, Ill., last month to help the campus recover after a gunman&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-7204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204","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=7204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}