{"id":76404,"date":"2025-11-17T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=76404"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:18:10","slug":"in-the-spotlight-nov-17-21-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-nov-17-21-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Nov. 17-21, 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><\/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\">NAU wide receiver <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kolbe Katsis <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was selected as the Big Sky Co-Offensive Player of the Week on Nov. 17. He was the first Lumberjack since 2019 to score three receiving touchdowns in a single game during NAU\u2019s Nov. 15 victory over California Polytechnic State University.<\/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\">NAU\u2019s Department of Mathematics and Statistics<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> hosted its annual High School Math Day on Nov. 7. The event invited students from multiple Arizona high schools to campus for a day of problem-solving competitions and mathematics seminars hosted by assistant teaching professors <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Tyler Brock <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Anne Carter<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. About 136 students from nine schools participated this year\u2014including schools in Prescott, Goodyear and Peoria.<\/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\">Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Christopher Edwards <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">co-authored two papers published in the October 2025 issue of JGR Planets. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2025JE009150\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">One paper<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> provides a full description of the Corinto crater, a Mars impact crater known for producing an extensive system of thermally distinct rays, and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2025JE009092\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">other paper<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> summarizes Mars temperature variation data from the Emirates Mars Mission.\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\">Professor <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Joshua Emery<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, doctoral student <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lucas McClure <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and NAU alumna <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Brittany Harvison<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2014all from the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science\u2014<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">co-authored the paper \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2510.19717\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Compositional characterisation of asteroid (84) Klio with JWST<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u201d published in Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics. The paper reports the first spectroscopic analysis of a particular main-belt asteroid to help astronomers better understand its 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=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A team of students from NAU&#8217;s <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Immersive Media and Games<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> degree program won first place at the AZ Game Jam Awards on Nov. 2, a game development competition hosted by ASU and sponsored by Unity Technologies. The 48-hour event had student teams from across Arizona create video games from scratch to be playtested by volunteers.\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-nov-17-21-2025\/\">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 NAU wide receiver Kolbe Katsis was selected as the Big Sky Co-Offensive Player of the Week on Nov. 17. He was the first Lumberjack since&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-76404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76404","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=76404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}