{"id":78682,"date":"2026-09-01T13:14:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=78682"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:16:27","slug":"in-the-spotlight-september-1-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-september-1-4\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: September 1 &#8211; 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the Spotlight:\u00a0September 1 &#8211; 4\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kudos to these faculty,\u202fstaff\u202fand programs.\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">E-mail your announcements to\u202f<\/span><a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Inside@nau.edu<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u202for use\u202four\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/news-tip\/#.YEjwNWhKg2w\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">online submission form<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Running back\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lindsey Graves<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was\u00a0named Big Sky Co-Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday on the heels of his game-changing 100-yard kickoff return touchdown versus Eastern Washington.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"9\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Shannon Guerrero<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, professor in the Department of Mathematics and Science, along with\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ron Gray<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, chair of STEM Education and\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Jo\u2019el\u00a0Johanson<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, associate teaching professor\u00a0of STEM Education, was awarded a grant from\u00a0NSF&#8217;s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education program. The project,\u00a0&#8220;Advancing Innovation in STEM Teacher Preparation: The STEM Core Practices Framework,\u201d aims to\u00a0strengthen\u00a0undergraduate STEM teacher preparation through the development and study of the STEM Core Practices Framework.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"9\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Associate professors\u00a0at\u00a0the School of Communication\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sun Kim<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ashleigh Day\u2019s<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0collaborative paper\u00a0was\u00a0accepted for presentation at the National Communication Association conference.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"9\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Chris Johnson<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, professor in the School of Communication, won second place at the Sedona Arts Center for his contemporary installation artwork titled &#8220;The Immensity of the Search.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"9\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Katsuya Oi<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, associate professor in the Department of Sociology,\u00a0authored\u00a0the articles\u00a0\u201cOptimism and the Time-Stable Component of Self-Rated Health: A Threshold-Specific Latent Growth Analysis\u201d in the British Journal of Health Psychology and \u201cComparing Demographic and Neural-Network-Based Representations of the Black\u2013White Mortality Hazard Gap\u201d in Discover Public Health, a Springer Nature journal.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"9\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"6\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NAU\u2019s\u202fTennis Center<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0has received recognition as a\u202fUnited States Tennis\u00a0Association\u202f\u00a0Outstanding\u00a0Facility Award for 2026. Both the men&#8217;s tennis head coach,\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Maciej Bogusz<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0women&#8217;s head coach,\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ewa Bogusz,<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0traveled to the US Open in New York to receive the award.\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\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-september-1-4\/\">In the Spotlight:\u00a0September 1 &#8211; 4\u00a0\u00a0 Kudos to these faculty,\u202fstaff\u202fand programs.\u202f\u202f\u00a0 Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?\u202f\u202f\u00a0 E-mail your announcements to\u202fInside@nau.edu,\u202for use\u202four\u202fonline submission form.\u202f\u202f\u00a0 Running back\u00a0Lindsey Graves\u00a0was\u00a0named Big Sky Co-Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday on the heels of his game-changing 100-yard kickoff return touchdown versus Eastern&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-78682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78682","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=78682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78685,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78682\/revisions\/78685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}