{"id":78549,"date":"2026-08-13T07:22:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=78549"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:22:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:22:57","slug":"featured-spotlight-gerard-van-belle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-gerard-van-belle\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Spotlight: Gerard van Belle"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b><span data-contrast=\"none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/08\/stranger_things.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-78547 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/08\/stranger_things.jpg\" alt=\"Gerard van Belle and two others at the Phoenix Fan Fusion\" width=\"370\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/08\/stranger_things.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/08\/stranger_things-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/08\/stranger_things-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/08\/stranger_things-768x506.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a>Gerard van Belle<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">, research professor in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences co-hosted Science Track panels at the Phoenix Fan Fusion\u00a0on \u201cThe Wright Stuff: The Science\u00a0of Flight,\u201d\u00a0\u201cI am on a curiosity voyage and I need my paddles to travel: Scientist looks\u00a0at\u00a0\u2018\u2019Stranger Things\u201d and \u201cBut it was a scientific poke with a very scientific\u00a0stick!:\u00a0The\u00a0Science of\u00a0\u2018Project Hail Mary.\u2019\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&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-gerard-van-belle\/\">Gerard van Belle, research professor in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences co-hosted Science Track panels at the Phoenix Fan Fusion\u00a0on \u201cThe Wright Stuff: The Science\u00a0of Flight,\u201d\u00a0\u201cI am on a curiosity voyage and I need my paddles to travel: Scientist looks\u00a0at\u00a0\u2018\u2019Stranger Things\u201d and \u201cBut it was a scientific poke with a very scientific\u00a0stick!:\u00a0The\u00a0Science of\u00a0\u2018Project&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-78549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78549","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=78549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78551,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78549\/revisions\/78551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}