Category: Students
NIU Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the NIU Center for Burma Studies Catherine Raymond has been awarded a Rakow Grant for Glass Research from the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY. Raymond’s grant funding will be used to complete a manuscript on the reverse painting on glass tradition on the mainland...
WNIJ News reporters won four top prizes in the Illinois Associated Press Broadcast News Contest for stories aired in 2017. WNIJ swept the category for “Best Use of Sound” and also was honored in the “Best Light Feature” and “Best Newswriter” categories. Jenna Dooley’s feature headlined “NIU Library Brings World War I Sheet Music To Life,”...
For the third consecutive year, an NIU student in physics has landed a prestigious graduate student research award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science. The DOE announced earlier this month that NIU’s 25-year-old Tyler Burch, a Ph.D. degree candidate, is one of 60 students from across the nation to receive the...
Sharing an eagerness to learn both on the job and academically, two NIU students earned Intern of the Year scholarships from NIU Career Services. The following awards were presented at an April 19 banquet on campus: Gold Award—Andrew McComb, operations and information systems major Silver Award—Madisen Frye, industrial and systems engineering major NIU Career Services...
Over 210 NIU students displayed their research skills, discoveries and artistry on Wednesday, April 18, during the university’s ninth annual Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day (URAD). Many others highlighted their important work with community-based service projects during the Community Engagement Showcase (CES). Descriptions of all student projects are available online. With the help of over...
Toni Tollerud’s service to education, from teaching to counseling, spans nearly 50 years. Yet her legacy will last far longer through the new Toni R. Tollerud School Counselor Grant, created and funded by the Schultz Foundation for Advancing Counseling. Recipients will use grants of up to $1,000 to finance school counseling projects in Illinois that...
The exhibition “Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography” opens this week at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, and it features two works from NIU School of Art and Design Instructor of Photography Jessica Labatte. The exhibition is a survey of the work of Josephson, a Chicago-based photographer who taught at the School of the Art Institute...
A ribbon cutting was held earlier this week for Coffee & Bagels in the lower level of Founders Memorial Library. The restaurant features Caribou Coffee and Einsteins Bros. Bagels, as well as sandwiches, salads, fresh fruit and yogurt parfaits.
NIU senior Sarah Wilkinson is visually impaired, but it hasn’t stopped her from developing a plan to help others enjoy what was her first love—the visual arts. The 24-year-old major in Nonprofit and NGO Studies uses a guide dog to navigate around campus and beyond. As a child, Wilkinson says, she was diagnosed with a...
Chief Thomas Phillips has a game plan. As the leader of NIU’s Department of Police and Public Safety, Phillips strives to ensure that his team is ready to protect and serve NIU students, employees and community members in DeKalb. “Training our officers is a key part of what we do,” Chief Phillips said. “We are...
An extra set of sheets. Unwanted clothing. A clock. Sometimes, packing up means leaving things behind. NIU students once again can put those items in the hands of people who can use them–and keep them out of the landfills–through the Goodwill Campus Move-Out campaign. Just drop them off in the large blue bins placed in...
Since 1976, Don Bramlett has been focused on building—building confidence in students, and more importantly, building a legacy of success for students of color. As founder of Black Male Initiative (BMI) and Supporting Opportunities for Latinos (SOL), Bramlett’s impact at NIU will continue long after his retirement on Friday, June 1. Bramlett founded BMI in...
