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- Last week, NAUPD Lt. Lance Wigley graduated from the FBI National Academy after completing a rigorous 10-week program in Quantico, Virginia. Wigley was one of 254 law enforcement officers in his class and the fourth NAUPD officer to graduate. His training included graduate-level courses at the University of Virginia and a 6-mile Marine Corps obstacle course. Academy graduates make up less than 1% of command-level enforcement officers.
- Cline librarian Mary DeJong authored the textbook “Information Literacy for Science and Engineering Students.” DeJong is the librarian for the College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences and the lead content creator for Cline Library’s information literacy tutorial.
- Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science (APS) Chair David Trilling and graduate student Andy López-Oquendo co-authored the article “Design and Performance of the Upgraded Mid-InfraRed Spectrometer and Imager (MIRSI) on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility” published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The paper describes the enhancements recently applied to the MIRSI, a mid-infrared camera designed to pierce through dusty environments to capture images of stellar evolution.
- NAU alumnus Ari Koeppel, professor Christopher Edwards and graduate students Helen Eifert and Daphne Chapline, all from APS, co-authored the paper “A Novel Surface Energy Balance Method for Thermal Inertia Studies of Terrestrial Analogs” published in the journal Earth and Space Science. The study works to improve the precision of thermal inertia measurements previously considered too unreliable to accurately represent Earth.
- The National Science Foundation highlighted research completed by APS Associate Chair Mark Salvatore and his team in its article “Weather anomaly experienced in the McMurdo Dry Valleys.” Salvatore’s initial research explored ecosystem responses to record-high temperatures in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, in 2022.