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NIU students in music, communication win prestigious Fulbright grants to Southeast Asia

May 14, 2013
SarahEmily Lekberg and Matthew Ropp

Two NIU students have won prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Grants to teach in Southeast Asia. SarahEmily Lekberg, an Indianapolis native who will earn her master’s degree from NIU in world music this summer, will begin a 10-month teaching assignment in...
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Noted advocate for immigrant women to receive honorary NIU doctorate at May 10 graduation

May 6, 2013
Layli Miller-Muro

NIU will confer an honorary doctoral degree this spring to Layli Miller-Muro, founder and executive director of the Tahirih Justice Center. Miller-Muro will receive her honorary doctorate during the Graduate School commencement ceremony, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 10,...
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Game changer: Supercomputer cluster saves NIU scientists at least a month’s worth of time

May 1, 2013
NIU Computer Science Chair Nicholas Karonis and Physics Chair Larry Lurio work together on an experiment at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source.

Imagine 100 million divers jumping into the ocean at once. Your task: Using high speed cameras, photograph the wake of each splash, then determine and plot exactly where each diver entered the water. That’s somewhat analogous to what a group of...
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