{"id":77276,"date":"2026-03-09T14:21:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=77276"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:21:03","slug":"in-the-spotlight-march-9-13-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-march-9-13-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: March 9-13, 2026"},"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\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Inside@nau.edu<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, or use\u00a0our\u00a0<\/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 research professor\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Will Grundy\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">co-authored the paper \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2603.05394\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Trans-Neptunian Binary Mutual Events in the 2020s and 2030s<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u201d published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The paper predicts when objects in pairs far beyond Neptune, called trans\u2011Neptunian binaries, will pass in front of one another so astronomers can learn valuable information on each object\u2019s size,\u00a0shape\u00a0and orbit.<\/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\">Pedro Gonzalez Corona<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, assistant professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, was awarded the Human Rights Educators 2025 Edward O&#8217;Brien Award for outstanding individual contributions to human rights education. He was specifically recognized for his teaching approach, including the creation of faculty-led programs and photographic exhibits to educate on human rights topics. Gonzalez Corona researches human rights, genocide and state-sponsored violence in Latin America, and he is part of a cohort of scholars focusing on the Yaqui people\u2019s history and trauma.<\/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 Anthropology professor\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sharon Moses\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was selected to chair a cold case workshop at the annual American Academy of Forensic Science conference in New Orleans last month. She also recently\u00a0submitted\u00a0a crime scene analysis and profile of\u00a0possible perpetrators\u00a0for a United States Marshals Service regional fugitive task force concerning a case that is active and confidential.<\/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\">Nesma Nasr,\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a doctoral student within the College of Education, was ranked No. 1 in the best proposal with a graduate student as first author category by the AERA Instructional Technology Special Interest Group at its 2026 meeting. Nasr\u2019s research was selected out of more than 15,000 submissions for this honor, which includes a student travel scholarship to help her present her work in Los Angeles this April.<\/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-march-9-13-2026\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs. Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to\u00a0Inside@nau.edu, or use\u00a0our\u00a0online submission form. Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science research professor\u00a0Will Grundy\u00a0co-authored the paper \u201cTrans-Neptunian Binary Mutual Events in the 2020s and 2030s,\u201d published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The paper&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-77276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77276","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=77276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}