{"id":79521,"date":"2026-09-25T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=79521"},"modified":"2026-09-25T15:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:56:50","slug":"spotlight-sept-28-oct-2-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-sept-28-oct-2-26\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Sept. 28-Oct. 2, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kudos to these faculty,\u00a0staff\u00a0and programs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">E-mail your announcements to\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside@nau.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0or use\u00a0our\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/news-tip\/#.YEjwNWhKg2w\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">online submission form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Students in the Immersive Media and Games program from the Steve Sanghi College of Engineering earned an honorable mention at the 2026 Arizona Game Cup competition. The competition is a public event where students from across the state design, develop and showcase original games.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Soccer forward <\/span><b>Micala Boex<\/b><span> has been named the Big Sky Offensive Player of the Week for the second time this season after scoring the equalizer to tie GCU.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Swimmer <\/span><b>Hannah Rutten<\/b><span> took first place in the 100-meter backstroke, the 100-meter butterfly and the 200-meter individual medley (IM), breaking the NAU Pentathlon record for the 200-meter IM.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Jordan Sundin,<\/b><span> the assistant director of utility services, was named a <\/span><a style=\"color: #5533ff\" href=\"https:\/\/arizonaforward.org\/take-action\/emerging-sustainability-leaders\/\"><span>2026-2027 emerging sustainability leader<\/span><\/a><span> by Arizona Forward. The program brings together rising professionals from across Arizona who are passionate about sustainability, leadership and creating a stronger future for the state.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-sept-28-oct-2-26\/\">Kudos to these faculty,\u00a0staff\u00a0and programs.\u00a0\u00a0 Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?\u00a0\u00a0 E-mail your announcements to\u00a0Inside@nau.edu,\u00a0or use\u00a0our\u00a0online submission form.\u00a0\u00a0 Students in the Immersive Media and Games program from the Steve Sanghi College of Engineering earned an honorable mention at the 2026 Arizona Game Cup competition. The competition is a public&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3036,"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-79521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79521","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\/3036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79526,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79521\/revisions\/79526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}