{"id":78290,"date":"2026-07-06T16:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=78290"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:15:50","slug":"featured-spotlight-mick-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-mick-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Spotlight: Mick Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mick Kelly<\/strong>, assistant director of Environmental Health &amp; Safety, received a Bronze Voluntary Environmental Stewardship award from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality for his team&#8217;s consistent compliance record in managing NAU&#8217;s Hazardous Waste Program. The award recognizes organizations that go beyond what is legally required to protect public health and the environment. Kelly&#8217;s success is a direct result of his commitment, technical expertise and focus on campus partnerships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/07\/EHS-team.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-78287 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/07\/EHS-team.png\" alt=\"Jayden Mallett, Student EHS Professional Shelley Jones, Director of Biological Safety, EHS Sam To, ADEQ Mick Kelly, Assistant Director, EHS Bryan Metze, Assistant Program Manager, EHS Ryelan McDonough, Chemical Hygiene and Radiation Safety Officer, EHS\" width=\"640\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/07\/EHS-team.png 640w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/07\/EHS-team-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From left: Jayden Mallett, Student EHS Professional; Shelley Jones, Director of Biological Safety, EHS; Sam To, ADEQ; Mick Kelly, Assistant Director, EHS; Bryan Metze, Assistant Program Manager, EHS; Ryelan McDonough, Chemical Hygiene and Radiation Safety Officer, EHS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-mick-kelly\/\">Mick Kelly, assistant director of Environmental Health &amp; Safety, received a Bronze Voluntary Environmental Stewardship award from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality for his team&#8217;s consistent compliance record in managing NAU&#8217;s Hazardous Waste Program. The award recognizes organizations that go beyond what is legally required to protect public health and the environment. Kelly&#8217;s success&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78290","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\/3019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78290"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78302,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78290\/revisions\/78302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}