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Inside NAU continues to answer questions of general interest on any topic. Today we address a question about the faculty, staff and student accomplishments listed in Inside NAU's 'Spotlights' section.

QUESTION: I would like to note that I have yet to see these publications ever include any articles or books published by anyone in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Also, it does not note when any of those professors or students attend conferences and present their paper while it lovingly notes anything done through the education department, the library, or any of the natural sciences. Please stop ignoring a good portion of your employees and students, we should be discussed in terms of the good our programs do. Ignoring those accolades just makes the departments look like they are not accomplishing anything when they really are and may guide certain students to not want to attend NAU.

ANSWER: Inside NAU relies on faculty and staff to supply us with information regarding their accomplishments, including books, papers, conferences, etc. We print these notables in our 'Spotlight' section that runs every week. Submissions can be made to Inside@nau.edu.

For instance, some of the SBS faculty, staff and students featured in 'Spotlights' over the past several months include:

• Jim Wilce, professor of anthropology
• Sam Minkler, photography professor
• NAU Forensics Team
• Laura Umphrey, assistant professor of communication
• Senior journalism majors Jeff Dempsey and Brian Drake, The Lumberjack newspaper and NAU Live!
• Lea J. Parker, professor of environmental communication and journalism, Richard A. (Tony) Parker, professor of speech communication, and Martin D. Sommerness, professor of journalism and mass communication
• NAU's 19-member Model United Nations Club and seven of its members: Jen Hartman, Justin Sowers, Jason McDonald, Amy Presson, Kerri White, Rebecca Wildner and Anthony Marino
• Nancy Wonders, chair of criminal justice, and Raymond Michalowski, Regents professor of criminal justice
• Steven Barger, associate professor of psychology
• Northern Arizona University resident elder James Peshlakai
• Robert Carl Schehr, professor of the criminal justice department and director of NAU's Arizona Justice Project

News stories from SBS featured in Inside NAU include:

• Sharing anthropology professor benefits NAU and museum
• Following Hopi footprints
• Bring-your-own-film event to showcase local home movies
• Dutch students capture hot shots with video cameras
• 'Undercover professor' to discuss her life as a student
• Hopi elder gets anthropology degree
• Alumni photojournalism career awarded
• Photojournalism week brings world views to campus
• Sociology and Social Work programs earn national award
• Judge to discuss death penalty at NAU talk
• NAU PR class makes presentations for Kurdistan

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