{"id":74922,"date":"2025-05-27T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=74922"},"modified":"2025-05-27T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:44:43","slug":"in-the-spotlight-may-27-30-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-may-27-30-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: May 27-30, 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\">.<\/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\">Biomedical science student <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">James Davis <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">earned a 2025-26 Boren Scholarship for international study in Brazil. The Boren Awards are designed to fund intensive language and culture studies for United States undergraduate and graduate students and foster cross-cultural knowledge building.\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\">The <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NAU Foundation<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and Univision Arizona honored the first recipient of their \u201cTu Futuro\u201d scholarship, which covers the total cost of tuition and lodging for one NAU undergraduate student for four years, at a reception on May 21. First-generation student and scholarship winner <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dayana Amaya <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was one of almost 400 students who applied. She earned the award after submitting an essay outlining her dreams of establishing a nonprofit that empowers young people and uplifts marginalized communities. Amaya will attend NAU in August to pursue business administration and accounting.\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\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Maiah Jaskoski<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, professor for the Department of Politics and International Affairs, released the paperback version of her book, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-politics-of-extraction-9780197812549?lang=en&amp;cc=us\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Politics of Extraction: Territorial Rights, Participatory Institutions, and Conflict in Latin America<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u201d The book uses data from 30 major extractive conflicts in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru in the 2000s and 2010s to explore how communities in hydrocarbon and mining regions engage with their participatory institutions and procedures.\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\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Six NAU undergraduate transfer students\u2014<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Yaquelin Garcia<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Anjuly Gomez Calderon<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Vladimir Gurrola<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Leeza Jones<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Daniela Limon <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Damara Rodriguez<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2014were awarded the Helios 20th Anniversary Pathway Scholarship, which offers up to $20,000 to transfer students dedicated to pursuing postsecondary education.<\/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=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NAU\u2019s <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">VisualDESIGNLab<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> partnered with the Coconino County Attorney\u2019s Office to design the office\u2019s new official seal. NAU graphic designers worked alongside the office\u2019s advisory team to incorporate the Old Coconino County Courthouse and northern Arizona peaks into a design symbolizing the county justice system\u2019s story and goals.\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-may-27-30-2025\/\">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. Biomedical science student James Davis earned a 2025-26 Boren Scholarship for international study in Brazil. The Boren Awards are designed to fund intensive language and&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-74922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74922","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=74922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}