{"id":76173,"date":"2025-10-27T11:29:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=76173"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:29:32","slug":"in-the-spotlight-oct-27-31-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-oct-27-31-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Oct. 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\">.<\/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\">Fred DeMicco<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, a School of Hotel and Restaurant Management retiree and affiliate, co-authored the paper \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/10447318.2024.2445112\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Robot Acceptance and Service Quality in Food Delivery: An Expanded TAM-based Study<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u201d published in the International Journal of Human\u2013Computer Interaction. The study uses data from more than 1,100 robot delivery service users to determine which factors influence whether customers are satisfied with the technology.<\/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 Sociology associate professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Katsuya Oi<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> received Penn State University\u2019s 2025 Roy C. Buck Award in the College of Liberal Arts for exceptional work published in the previous year. Oi also co-authored the article \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0277953625010263\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Should we all go to college? Revisiting educational benefits for memory aging in a large-scale study<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u201d recently published in Social Science &amp; Medicine.\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\">School of Forestry alumnus <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gerald Tuskan<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> was awarded the 2025 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for his work sequencing and analyzing the first tree genome in 2006. The Marcus Wallenberg Prize is considered the highest award in the forestry field, recognizing individuals who have spearheaded revolutionary scientific achievements within the industry.\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 one of 388 schools included in The Princeton Review\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.princetonreview.com\/college-rankings\/green-guide\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Guide to Green Colleges: 2026 Edition<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, a comprehensive list of universities that practice and promote environmental responsibility. The Princeton Review evaluates schools based on their sustainability programs, environmental awareness and conservation efforts.\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-oct-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. Fred DeMicco, a School of Hotel and Restaurant Management retiree and affiliate, co-authored the paper \u201cRobot Acceptance and Service Quality in Food Delivery: An Expanded&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-76173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76173","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=76173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}