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Three Ph.D. students in the Department of Physics — all of whom are members of NIU’s team of researchers working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), based at the CERN research facility near Geneva, Switzerland — recently have won highly competitive awards. Chad Suhr was awarded a one-year $30,000 fellowship from theArgonne National Laboratory to continue...
NIU engineering student Alan Hurt is traveling in Africa this summer to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and conduct research.
For most people, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro would be the highlight of their summer, or maybe even their life. For NIU engineering student Alan Hurt, it is just a start. Just hours after completing his last final exam of the semester, Hurt boarded a plane bound for Africa, carrying only a single rucksack containing a few...
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NIU’s Communicative Disorders Student Association is hosting a book drive through Friday, May 13, to raise money for the Stuttering Foundation and to support organizations that work with Better World Books. Books can be dropped off in boxes located in Barsema Hall, Douglas Hall, Founders Memorial Library, the Psychology-Computer Science Building, the Wirtz Hall atrium and near the book buy-back table...
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin
A classroom of NIU students who share a passion for the environment had an opportunity Wednesday to open a dialogue about climate, clean energy and green jobs with one of Washington, D.C.’s movers and shakers: U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin. The students interacted via videoconference with the Democratic senator as he discussed a wide range of environmental...
In celebration of the sesquicentennial of Jose P. Rizal’s birth, Consul General Leo M. Herrera-Lim of the Consulate General of the Philippines Chicago will donate copies of the original manuscripts of two of Rizal’s famous novels to NIU. The novels “Noli Me Tangere” (Touch Me Not) and “El Filibusterismo” (The Reign of Greed), published by the National Historical...
Mayra C. Daniel
Sixteen Mexican-American eighth-graders from DeKalb’s Clinton Rosette Middle School will spend Wednesday, May 4, at NIU to get a glimpse of their future college lives. “The students, many whose parents have not attended college, will learn how a college education can set them on a path that changes their lives and the world they inhabit,” said Mayra...
The Division of Public Administration at Northern Illinois University has long played a major role in advancing statewide and national good-government movements. Now it’s becoming a player on the global stage, with the latest development getting a boost from alumnus Obuya Bagaka. In 2009, Bagaka earned his Ph.D. in political science at NIU, specializing in...
Kenton Clymer’s intense interest in Burma was kindled in 1987 while he was in India, where he struck up a friendship with two young scholars, Michael Aris and his wife, Aung San Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi would later become famous the world over, her name a symbol of courage, peace and resilience. Risking her life,...
Basic Utility Vehicle
Engineering students from Northern Illinois University earlier this month rolled out their design for a simple vehicle designed to improve the lives of people in some of the most remote and rugged areas of the world. The vehicle was unveiled Saturday, April 16, at the 11th Annual Basic Utility Vehicle Competition hosted by the Institute...
NIU’s Indian Student Association and Inventura will host “Chak de India” — India Nite 2011 — at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 22. The event will take place in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. Dress code for the night is “preferably Indian — dress to impress.” The Indian Students Association at NIU...
Phi Beta Delta, the honor society for international scholars, recently presented its 2011 Edward S. Blankenship Outstanding Staff Award to Pamela K. Rosenberg, business manager for the Division of International Programs and treasurer of the Zeta Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Delta. The Blankenship Award recognizes outstanding leadership and support of the development and activities...
At one point in her life, Noemi Rodriguez saw her chances of going to college as almost nonexistent. But the senior at Kelly High School in Chicago changed her mindset at the age of 17 when she joined ESCALERA, a youth development program administered by Instituto del Progreso Latino (IDPL). As a leading educational institution annually catering to more than 14,000 participants and families...
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