{"id":75559,"date":"2025-09-02T12:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=75559"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:27:46","slug":"in-the-spotlight-sept-2-5-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-sept-2-5-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Sept. 2-5, 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\">School of Communication professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Laura Camden <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had three of her photographs selected for \u201cThe World Through Our Eyes,\u201d an art exhibition at the Texas Tech University International Cultural Center. The exhibit includes photos from around the globe relevant to its core themes of curiosity, empathy and adventure and will be on display until Sept. 12.\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\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Emma Reynolds<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, an NAU alumna and part-time faculty member in the School of Communication, earned a top paper award at the 2025 National Communication Association conference. Reynolds was ranked No. 1 out of the four highest-ranked student papers in the Applied Communication Division for her work titled \u201cA Crisis Communication Evaluation on Hurricane Ian in Florida.\u201d<\/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\">Ben Dymond<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2014an associate professor for the Department of Civil Engineering, Construction Management, and Environmental Engineering\u2014joined students <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Payton Correia<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Isabella Velasco<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Caitlin Yazzie<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Zachary Fukumoto<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> to earn a first-place victory in the Precast\/Prestressed Concrete Institute\u2019s 2025 Big Beam Competition. The nationwide challenge has teams of students and their faculty advisers design, construct and test the stability of a 20-foot concrete beam, being judged on their teamwork and innovation throughout the contest.<\/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-2-5-2025\/\">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. School of Communication professor Laura Camden had three of her photographs selected for \u201cThe World Through Our Eyes,\u201d an art exhibition at the Texas Tech&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-75559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75559","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=75559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}