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NIU Libraries launches Open Access Fund

March 4, 2013
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NIU Libraries has launched a pilot Open Access Fund that will provide small grants to faculty and graduate students to help defray the upfront costs associated with open access publishing. Grappling with the costs for expensive journal subscriptions, a number...
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NIU physics professor receives $4 million grant to conduct superconductor research at Argonne

November 7, 2012
Glatz, Andreas

Andreas Glatz, who recently joined the NIU Department of Physics through a joint appointment with Argonne National Laboratory, has won a $4 million grant over the next five years to develop and apply novel methods of optimizing superconductors for...
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Grippo wins $354,000 NIH grant to study ways to prevent depression, cardiovascular disease

September 24, 2012
Psychology Professor Angela Grippo in her laboratory with undergraduate student researcher Wil Colburn.

In the laboratory of award-winning researcher Angela Grippo, mouse-like creatures known as prairie voles are getting an extreme makeover – habitat edition. Nothing too fancy, mind you – a running wheel, chewy toys, tinfoil balls and furnishings that include a...
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