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Dave Changnon
The heat wave in the Chicago region early this month would likely have been even more deadly if not for lessons learned from the lethal hot spell of 1995, according to NIU Board of Trustees Professor David Changnon. Changnon, a professor of meteorology in the Department of Geography who conducted research on the infamous ’95...
It’s been said that every ending marks a new beginning. So it is with the search for the Higgs boson, an elusive elementary particle that has captured the attention and imagination of scientists and the general public alike. In what appears to be a landmark discovery, scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe...
Northern Illinois University particle physicists and thousands of their colleagues across the world are looking forward to fireworks of a different sort on the Fourth of July. Just yesterday, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia announced that scientists there – after more than 10 years of gathering and analyzing data produced by the laboratory’s Tevatron...
Thomas W. Pavkov
When Thomas W. Pavkov takes over July 19 as chair of NIU’s School of Family, Consumer and Nutrition Sciences, its programs and students will receive a strong teacher, confident administrator and proven researcher. Pavkov, who will leave his post as director of the Institute for Social and Policy Research and interim head of the Department of Behavioral...
Angela Grippo
Angela Grippo, an assistant professor of psychology at NIU, has won a major national award for her research into the association between depression and cardiovascular disease in animal models. The American Psychological Association (APA) will present Grippo with one of its prestigious 2012 APA Distinguished Scientific Awards during the organization’s convention, scheduled from Aug. 2...
Evan Wittke
It all began with an email from the Huskie Research Rookies program. It was an invitation that changed biology major Evan Wittke’s first-year experience as a Huskie into something extraordinary – not only for him, but perhaps someday, for the world. For Wittke, the title “Research Rookie” meant he could join biology professor Barrie Bode...
Mary E. Pritchard
NIU’s College of Health and Human Sciences announces the 2012 winners of the Dean’s Faculty Awards and Dean’s Student Awards. Dean’s Faculty Awards The Lankford Award for Excellence in Teaching is given each year to a full-time, tenured or tenure-tracked faculty member within the College of Health and Human Sciences with at least three years...
Carol D. Lee
Northwestern University professor Carol D. Lee will speak Monday, June 18, at the 2012 Affiliate Retreat of the NIU Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and Literacy. Lee is the Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy, a professor of learning sciences and professor of African-Americans studies. Her presentation is titled, “Every...
Paul Carpenter
Three thousand miles. If you drove that far in one shot it could be done in about 48 hours, but you’d need an oil change. Making the same trip on a bike is a different story. Race Across America (RAAM) brings a whole new meaning to the term “road trip.” Rated as one of the...
Battle Bots!
NIU’s Enhancing Engineering Pathways (NIU-EEP) aims to establish a sustainable pathway for girls into the field of engineering. To create and strengthen the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) pipeline, another year of NIU-EEP’s free summer camp will take place from June 11 through June 15. The application is available online. Launched in 2008, and...
Collage of income tax images
As U.S. presidential election campaigns heat up, candidates can expect an earful of complaints over taxes. Now a new study led by a Northern Illinois University sociologist argues that American middle-class hostilities toward the federal income tax follow a common discourse rooted in moral beliefs. “We propose that everyday tax talk among the middle class...
NIU Southeast Asia curator Hao Phan has been awarded a $15,000 grant from the British Library to begin work on a preservation project of centuries-old Cham manuscripts in Vietnam. Historians consider Cham descendants, once part of the Champa kingdom, to be an important minority group in Vietnam, Phan said. The manuscripts they created give readers...
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