{"id":72877,"date":"2024-09-09T11:17:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T18:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=72877"},"modified":"2024-09-09T16:11:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T23:11:51","slug":"in-the-spotlight-sept-9-13-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-sept-9-13-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Sept. 9-13, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">E-mail your announcements to <\/span><a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Inside@nau.edu<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 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=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Calibri\" 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\">NAU alumnae <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Steffany Brockie <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kyra Slim <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">presented research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta as part of the virtual Tribal Health Experiential Internship Seminar (THESIS) program. The duo\u2019s research analyzed the relationship between uranium mining and lung cancer risk on the Navajo Nation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Calibri\" 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=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NAU <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">earned a spot on the American Indian Science and Engineering Society\u2019s (AISES) 2024-25 Top 200 Colleges for Indigenous Students list. Published in the organization\u2019s Winds of Change magazine, this list recognizes colleges with high Indigenous student population percentages, support programs and extensive degree options.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Calibri\" 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=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Chad Trujillo<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science (APS), received two grants for asteroid discovery projects. The National Science Foundation funded a continuation of the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/activeasteroids.net\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Active Asteroids<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> project, a citizen science program designed by NAU alum <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Colin Chandler<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> identifying new asteroids using Dark Energy Camera data. NASA also funded a spinoff project producing images of main belt asteroids based on data archived from the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Calibri\" 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=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Undergraduate APS student <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hunter Brooks <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is the lead author of the paper \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2408.14447\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Discovery of 118 New Ultracool Dwarf Candidates Using Machine Learning Techniques<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d published in the American Astronomical Journal. The study uses data from a new machine learning tool, called the \\texttt{SMDET}, to estimate the spectral type, distance and tangential velocity of 118 astronomical objects. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Calibri\" 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=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">APS assistant research professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Alicia Rutledge <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was featured in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sverigesradio.se\/artikel\/nasa-funding-research-on-melting-swedish-glaciers-to-understand-climate-change-on-mars\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Radio Sweden<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> segment to discuss her ongoing planetary analog research at the arctic Sweden glaciers. The NASA-funded study uses Swedish glacier data to understand climate evolution on Mars\u2019 similar surfaces.\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-sept-9-13-2024\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs.\u00a0\u00a0 Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?\u00a0\u00a0 E-mail your announcements to Inside@nau.edu, or use our online submission form.\u00a0\u00a0 NAU alumnae Steffany Brockie and Kyra Slim presented research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta as part of the&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"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-72877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72877","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\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}