{"id":74852,"date":"2025-05-12T10:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=74852"},"modified":"2025-05-12T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:48:20","slug":"in-the-spotlight-may-12-16-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-may-12-16-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: May 12-16, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs.\u00a0<\/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\">.<\/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\">Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science (APS) professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Christopher Edwards <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and postdoctoral scholar <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Emily Mason <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had their proposal for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Participating Scientist program selected for funding. Their proposal links surface dust lifting on Mars to its atmospheric conditions and includes operational roles on MSL through September 2028.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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\">APS alumna <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cassandra Lejoly <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was featured in the NASA documentary &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-research\/planetary-science\/planetary-defense\/planetary-defenders\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Planetary Defenders<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,&#8221; which details the work of scientists and astronomers engaged in asteroid detection and planetary defense.\u00a0<\/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\">APS associate professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cristina Thomas<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, assistant research professor<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Chris Haberle<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Josh Emery<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, postdoctoral scholar <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Annika Gustafsson <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and doctoral student <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Aidan Madden-Watson <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">co-authored the article \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2505.00692\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Multi-wavelength JWST observations of (3200) Phaethon show a dehydrated object with an aqueously altered origin<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u201d published in the Planetary Science Journal. The study uses data from the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate the near-Earth asteroid Phaethon\u2019s surface composition.\u00a0<\/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\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NAU<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> was ranked No. 15 in the large college category of the Peace Corps\u2019 2025 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. Since 1961, 665 Lumberjacks have volunteered with the Peace Corps, including 21 NAU students currently serving in 18 countries around the world.<\/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-may-12-16-2025\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs.\u00a0 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. Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science (APS) professor Christopher Edwards and postdoctoral scholar Emily Mason had their proposal for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Participating&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-74852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74852","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=74852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}