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- Northern Arizona University had several programs recognized:
- The bachelor’s degree program in computer science under the College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences was accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Bachelor’s degree programs in civil engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer engineering also have been accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET. ABET is a global accreditor of academic programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering and engineering technology that assures programs meet standards to produce graduates ready to enter critical technical fields that lead the way in innovation and emerging technologies.
- NAU’s bachelor’s program in criminal justice studies was ranked No. 9 by College Consensus on its list of Best Online Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice. This program is delivered entirely online and students can focus on intelligence studies or criminal justice administration.
- The nursing program was ranked No. 4 by Nursing Process in its 2020 rankings for schools in Arizona. The program teaches students to personalize nursing care to meet specific needs of the individual, family or community being served and was created to address critical staffing shortages in the Grand Canyon State.
- Assistant professor of communication Zhan Xu co-authored the book chapter, “Conceptualizing and Measuring Affective and Cognitive Empathy: Physiological Bases of Discrete Emotion Communication, Reason, and Involvement in Decision Making” in The Oxford Handbook of the Physiology of Interpersonal Communication. The chapter reviews the concept of emotional empathy and the current state of the field, discusses the physiological mechanisms underlying empathy in the peripheral and central nervous systems and distinguishes spontaneous and symbolic communication processes to show how cognitive empathy emerges from emotional empathy during development.
- Professor of biological sciences Jane Marks was quoted in the article, “The life that springs from dead leaves in streams.” The article features Marks’ research in a narrative that follows the role of decaying leaves in restoring life.
- Chun-Hsing (Jun) Ho, associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Construction Management, and Environmental Engineering, co-authored the article, “Application of Vehicle-Based Sensing Technology in Monitoring Vibration Response of Pavement Conditions” published in the Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements. The article presents an alternative option for monitoring pavement roughness using vehicle-based sensors to detect asphalt distresses under the effect of pavement temperature change and to identify their georeferenced locations.
- Regents’ professor of criminology and criminal justice Raymond Michalowski and alumna Meridith Brown co-authored the article, “Poisoning for Profit: Regulatory Rollbacks, Public Health, and State-Facilitated Corporate Crime” published in the Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime. The article proposes that blending state-corporate crime and public health frameworks can help us better understand and analyze short-and long-term impacts of the Trump administration’s rollback regime.
- Michalowski also served as an editor on a special issue of this journal titled, “Trump’s Regulatory Reset: Corporate Crime and Social Harm in an Age of Neo-liberal Deregulation.” The issue contains the article, “Regulatory Rollbacks and Deepening Social Inequalities” co-authored by professor of criminology and criminal justice Nancy Wonders. The article examines the key dynamics heightening social divides and deepening social inequalities caused by the regulatory rollbacks under the Trump administration.
- Assistant professor of sociology Katsuya Oi recently authored two articles. “Does Retirement Get Under the Skin and Into the Head? Testing the Pathway from Retirement to Cardio-Metabolic Risk, then to Episodic Memory” was published in Research on Aging and tests the pathway between cognitive functioning and physiological responses to stress in post-retirement for men and women. “Disuse as time away from a cognitively demanding job; how does it temporarily or developmentally impact late-life cognition?” was published in Intelligence. The article studies cognitive aging and disuse atrophy during a non-working period in life and estimates cognitive change independently and jointly by time over a period, time away from work and the cognitive job demands of the latest job
- Frederick DeMicco, executive director of the School of Hotel and Restaurant Management, co-authored the article, “Franchised On-Site Hotel Medical Clinics: A New Competitive Advantage for Lodging Operations With Hotels Bridging Healthcare (H2H)” published with Hotel Online: The B2B News Source. The article explores what benefits or potential competitive edge a hotel or resort might have by partnering with an onsite medical clinic.
- Bruce Hungate, Regents’ professor of biological sciences, and Victor Leshyk, research project coordinator for the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, co-authored the article, “Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2” published in New Phytologist. The study is a highly collaborative synthesis of research to date on the relationship between rising CO2 in the atmosphere and the ability of land plants to capture this carbon.