{"id":72909,"date":"2024-09-16T11:48:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T18:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=72909"},"modified":"2024-09-16T11:48:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T18:48:47","slug":"in-the-spotlight-sept-16-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-sept-16-20-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Sept. 16-20, 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\">Last week, NAUPD Lt. <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lance Wigley <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">graduated from the FBI National Academy after completing a rigorous 10-week program in Quantico, Virginia. Wigley was one of 254 law enforcement officers in his class and the fourth NAUPD officer to graduate. His training included graduate-level courses at the University of Virginia and a 6-mile Marine Corps obstacle course. Academy graduates make up less than 1% of command-level enforcement officers.<\/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\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cline librarian <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mary DeJong <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">authored the textbook \u201cInformation Literacy for Science and Engineering Students.\u201d DeJong is the librarian for the College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences and the lead content creator for Cline Library\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/nau.edu\/informationliteracybasics\/lessons?authuser=0\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">information literacy tutorial<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\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\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science (APS) Chair <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">David Trilling <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and graduate student <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Andy L\u00f3pez-Oquendo <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">co-authored the article \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2409.02752\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Design and Performance of the Upgraded Mid-InfraRed Spectrometer and Imager (MIRSI) on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The paper describes the enhancements recently applied to the MIRSI, a mid-infrared camera designed to pierce through dusty environments to capture images of stellar evolution.\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=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NAU alumnus <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ari Koeppel<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Christopher Edwards<\/span><\/b> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">and<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">graduate students <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Helen Eifert<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Daphne Chapline<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, all from APS, co-authored the paper \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1029\/2023EA003259\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">A Novel Surface Energy Balance Method for Thermal Inertia Studies of Terrestrial Analogs<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d published in the journal Earth and Space Science. The study works to improve the precision of thermal inertia measurements previously considered too unreliable to accurately represent Earth.\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=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The National Science Foundation highlighted research completed by APS Associate Chair <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mark Salvatore <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and his team in its article \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/new.nsf.gov\/news\/weather-anomaly-experienced-mcmurdo-dry-valleys\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Weather anomaly experienced in the McMurdo Dry Valleys<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u201d Salvatore\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2023EF004306\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">initial research<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> explored ecosystem responses to record-high temperatures in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\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-16-20-2024\/\">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 Last week, NAUPD Lt. Lance Wigley graduated from the FBI National Academy after completing a rigorous 10-week program in Quantico, Virginia. Wigley was one of&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-72909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72909","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=72909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}