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“What can I do at home to help my child with reading and writing?” Laurie Elish-Piper, a Presidential Teaching Professor in Literacy Education, director of the NIU Literacy Clinic and co-director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and Literacy, says that this is by far one of the most common questions posed...
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The University Honors Program and the University Honors Committee welcome nominations for the University Honors Great Professor Award, a campus-wide award recognizing excellence in honors education. The deadline for completed nomination packages is March 19, 2012. The award will be presented Sunday, April 22, by President John Peters at Honors Day. The Great Professor Award...
NIU volleyball team celebrates
A Northern Illinois volleyball-record five Huskies received Academic All-Mid-American Conference recognition, the league announced Thursday. Seniors Kristin Hoffman (Batavia, Ill./Batavia) and Allison McGlaughlin (Morton, Ill./Morton) and sophomore Lauren Wicinski (Geneva, Ill./Geneva) made the 18-person Academic All-MAC Team. Junior Mary Kurisch (La Crosse, Wis./West Salem) and sophomore Justine Schepler (Sycamore, Ill./Sycamore) received honorable mention status. “With...
Pre-ballet students from the NIU Community Dance School.
The Community Dance School at NIU has begun its spring 12-week session and will continue registration through Sunday, Feb. 5. Classes meet weekly through April with a recital Saturday, April 28. The school is sponsored by the the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education and is directed by faculty member Diane Rimmer. Classes begin at...
Moses Mutuku
Moses Mutuku, who cried as a child because he had no books to read, wanted to give opportunities to the children of his rural Kenyan homeland. Opportunities to learn. To grow. To gain the aspirations and tools for careers other than farming. The professor in NIU’s College of Education frequently returned home to foster educational...
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NIU’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education will offer a motor development program for young children ages 3 to 6 from Monday, Feb. 13, through Wednesday, April 11. Held in Anderson Hall Gym 130, the eight-week program runs from 4 to 5 p.m Mondays and Wednesdays. This program provides young children with the opportunity to...
Northern Illinois University’s oldest college was honored this week for its excellence in harnessing cutting-edge technology to educate the next generation of teachers and school administrators. U.S News and World Report announced Tuesday that the NIU College of Education had earned a place on its Honor Roll for Online Graduate Education Programs. Only 14 programs in...
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As a result of a site visit to Inner Mongolia and Beijing, China, this past summer, Michelle Bringas will lead a Study Abroad trip to summer to Beijing, China. Bringas, director of the NIU Asian American Center, will travel from Wednesday, June 14, through Saturday, June 30. The program takes an innovative, collaborative approach for...
Norm Stahl
Norm Stahl could see the Pacific Ocean from the windows of the home where he grew up in San Francisco. The waves eventually beckoned him to surf, something that became a lifelong passion. The smell of the water and the feel of the sand between his toes still resonate deep inside his senses, even after...
NIU will hold commencement Saturday, Dec. 10, and Sunday, Dec. 11, at the Convocation Center. Saturday, Dec. 10 – 4 p.m. Graduate School ceremony combining doctoral, masters and performer’s certificate candidates (doors open at 2:30 p.m.) Sunday, Dec. 11 – Undergraduate Ceremonies Ceremony One – 9:30 a.m. (doors open at 8 a.m.) College of Engineering and...
Students Mary and Loyce with the garden harvest.
As with many associate professors, Teresa Wasonga in the Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations in the College of Education leads a busy professional life, with a full slate of teaching, research and service commitments. During the spring and summer of 2011, she traveled to her native country of Kenya to conduct research for...
Nathan LaForte
Nathan LaForte served eight years in active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps and one year in the reserves, working as a mechanic and a journalist. Other Marines showed him those ropes. “They always had me do the on-the-job training,” says LaForte, who received his undergraduate degree in psychology from NIU in May of 2011,...
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