{"id":549,"date":"2023-05-02T20:39:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T20:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/mpa\/?p=549"},"modified":"2023-05-02T20:42:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T20:42:16","slug":"mesa-project-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/mpa\/2023\/05\/02\/mesa-project-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesa Project Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NAU MPA program<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> sent two student teams to compete in the Mesa Project. The goal of the Mesa Project is for MPA students at NAU, ASU and UA to present solutions for issues the City of Mesa is confronting.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"9\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:1440,&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=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Team One: <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Phoenix Eskridge-Aldama <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Eric Wise<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: Eskridge-Aldama and Wise worked on a scalable tree cover project for the city of Mesa. They address climate change adaptation and mitigation as it pertains to thermal comfort and walkability in the city of Mesa. They modeled and analyzed a potential tree cover expansion effort in Mesa\u2019s downtown district, which aligns with several goals expressed by the City of Mesa.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"9\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:1440,&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=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Team Two: <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Jessica Watson<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kylie Luth<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Vicente Carlos Ontiveros<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: Watson, Luth and Ontiveros worked on harm reduction suggestions for the city of Mesa in response to the opioid epidemic. Their report builds a background on the current actions in the city of Mesa and the state of Arizona in response to the opioid epidemic. Based on the information analyzed, they suggest implementing the following actions to address the opioid epidemic in Mesa: raising awareness about the availability of naloxone, public education on opioids and a fentanyl test strip and a syringe exchange program.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check it out in the NAU Review <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/in-the-spotlight-may-1-5-2023\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NAU MPA program sent two student teams to compete in the Mesa Project. The goal of the Mesa Project is for MPA students at NAU, ASU and UA to present solutions for issues the City of Mesa is confronting.\u00a0 Team One: Phoenix Eskridge-Aldama and Eric Wise: Eskridge-Aldama and Wise worked on a scalable tree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/mpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/mpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/mpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/mpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/mpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/mpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/mpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/mpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/mpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/mpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}