{"id":72084,"date":"2024-04-22T13:54:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=72084"},"modified":"2024-04-22T13:54:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:54:15","slug":"in-the-spotlight-april-22-26-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-april-22-26-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: April 22-26, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Kudos to these faculty, staff, students and programs.\u202f\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559739&quot;:420}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?\u202f\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559739&quot;:420}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u202fE-mail your announcements to Inside@nau.edu, 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;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559739&quot;:420}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hotel and restaurant management professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Frederick DeMicco<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and students <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Phoenix Payton<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">,<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Emma Reichert<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">,<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Ashley Waypa<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">,<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Elliana Taylor<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Michael Harkins <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">co-published the article \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalitynet.org\/opinion\/4121502.html\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Combining Artificial Reality and Robots to Improve Hospitality Operations: The Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI.)<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201d The paper, which discusses how AI and robots can be used in marketing, restaurant serving, sales, management or training in the hospitality industry, appeared this month in the worldwide publication <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalitynet.org\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Hospitality Net<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Senior geology student<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Claire Gibson<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\"> produced a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knau.org\/knau-and-arizona-news\/2024-04-04\/antarctica-researchers-reveal-big-changes-by-studying-the-smallest-creatures\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">radio segment<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> for KNAU about scientific research in Antarctica as part of her Hooper Undergraduate Research Award grant.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Thirty-two NAU faculty completed a 25-module professional learning course this academic year as part of The NAU Teaching and Learning Center\u2019s (TLC) partnership with the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE). Full-time faculty who are interested in applying for the 2024-2025 ACUE \u201cEffective Online Teaching Practices\u201d and \u201cEffective Teaching Practices\u201d courses are encouraged to contact the TLC at <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"><a href=\"mailto:NAU.TLC@nau.edu\">NAU.TLC@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\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-april-22-26-2024\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff, students and programs.\u202f\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?\u202f\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u202fE-mail your announcements to Inside@nau.edu, or use our online submission form.\u00a0 Hotel and restaurant management professor Frederick DeMicco and students Phoenix Payton, Emma Reichert, Ashley Waypa, Elliana Taylor and Michael Harkins co-published the article \u201cCombining&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"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-72084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72084","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}