{"id":77987,"date":"2026-05-11T13:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=77987"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:29:31","slug":"featured-spotlight-ayotunde-giwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-ayotunde-giwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Spotlight: Ayotunde Giwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW235516141 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW235516141 BCX8\">Ayotunde Giwa<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW235516141 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW235516141 BCX8\">, a doctoral student studying philosophy and political science, was one of 20 students to earn a 2026 Horowitz Foundation Award in recognition of outstanding dissertation research in social policy. The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy received 845 applications this year, meaning it chose the students in the top 2.4% of that pool whose research\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW235516141 BCX8\">demonstrates<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW235516141 BCX8\">\u00a0potential to inform public understanding and policy practice. Those selected receive grants for policy-related research in the social sciences for the 2025-26 award year.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW235516141 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-ayotunde-giwa\/\">Ayotunde Giwa, a doctoral student studying philosophy and political science, was one of 20 students to earn a 2026 Horowitz Foundation Award in recognition of outstanding dissertation research in social policy. The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy received 845 applications this year, meaning it chose the students in the top 2.4% of that pool whose&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"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-77987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77987","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\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}