{"id":73794,"date":"2025-01-27T13:46:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=73794"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:46:30","slug":"in-the-spotlight-jan-27-31-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-jan-27-31-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Jan. 27-31, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/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=\"{}\">\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\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez-Fonseca<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Forestry, was the first author of the study, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0006320724003914\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">A global review of landscape-scale analyses in bats reveals geographic and taxonomic biases and opportunities for novel research<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u201d published in Biological Conservation. The study compiles information from more than 170 peer-reviewed studies across five continents to highlight knowledge gaps in bat research. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\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\">Department of Politics and International Affairs professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Eric Otenyo<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> appeared live on the news program \u201cGood Morning Kenya\u201d on Jan. 20. He discussed President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration and the future of the country under the Trump administration. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\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\">NAU\u2019s <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Species from Feces <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">lab, led by associate research professor and director of genetics <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Faith Walker<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, helped facilitate the discovery of endangered Mexican long-nosed bats in southeastern Arizona. The lab confirmed the bat\u2019s presence by collecting and surveying environmental DNA, working alongside local citizen scientists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Bat Conservation International. <\/span> <span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\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\">Department of Mechanical Engineering Chair <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Constantin Ciocanel <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and his team received a $999,825 National Science Foundation grant to create additional instructional opportunities for the educators, counselors and families of Hispanic and Latine students interested in pursuing engineering degrees.\u00a0<\/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-jan-27-31-2025\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs. Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to Inside@nau.edu, or use our online submission form.\u00a0\u00a0 Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ednez-Fonseca, a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Forestry, was the first author of the study, \u201cA global review of landscape-scale analyses in bats&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-73794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73794","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=73794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}