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Lisa Freeman
Lisa C. Freeman, vice president for Research and Graduate Studies, is inviting nominations and applications for next year’s Presidential Research Professorships. Presidential Research Professorships are awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishment and future potential in academic research, scholarship or artistry. Faculty can be nominated, or may initiate their own candidacy, by forwarding letters of nomination...
Kate Green, NIU’s 2010-11 Lincoln Laureate
An outstanding undergraduate senior from each of the four-year, degree-granting institutions of higher learning in Illinois is chosen each year to receive the Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award. Members of the University Scholarships Committee are seeking assistance from faculty and staff to identify NIU’s winner for 2011-12, the 36th year students have been recognized by...
Logo of the 2011 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence
Two new NIU publications produced by the Division of University Relations were singled out for excellence in the 2011 Awards for Publication Excellence competition. The APEX Awards are sponsored by Communications Concepts, a producer of newsletters and other resources for professionals who write, edit and manage business communications. They recognize excellence in graphic design, editorial...
Football senior Chad Spann and volleyball freshman Lauren Wicinski were named Northern Illlinois University’s 2010 Male and Female Athletes of the Year, headlining a list of 24 award winners honored Monday night during NIU’s second annual Victors Awards.  The Victors saw NIU student-athletes, coaches, athletic department and university staff come together to honor the Huskies’...
Axel Lagerlof
Northern Illinois freshman Axel Lagerlof capped off his first season with the Huskies by being named Mid-American Conference Newcomer of the Year, announced today by the conference office. This is the second-straight year that a Huskie has won the award, with Maksym Bartiuk winning the honor last year. “It’s a great honor for Axel,” said...
Mike Matusky (left) and Joseph Vierthaler
Two College of Engineering and Engineering Technology students received monetary awards this month from the Chicago chapter of the American Society of Metals International (ASM).  Both students submitted posters representing their work in material sciences and were awarded prize money for their research and service. Mike Matusky, a graduate student pursuing an M.S. in mechanical...
James Schmidt
NIU history professor James D. Schmidt has received the 2011 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award for his latest book, “Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor.” Schmidt received the prestigious annual award from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. “This is really an honor,” Schmidt said. “This award means...
Logo of the NIU Alumni Association
Every spring, the NIU Alumni Association recognizes the achievements of exemplary alumni through a series of prestigious awards. Winners of the Outstanding Alumni Awards for each of NIU’s academic colleges join recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award, the F. R. Geigle Service Award and the Outstanding Young Alumni Award. Recipients are selected based on professional and personal...
Four members of NIU’s Operating Staff have been chosen to receive the Outstanding Service Award for 2010. The recipients are Jill Draves, a secretary in the Department of Teaching and Learning; Mary Kain, office administrator for the School of Nursing and Health Studies; Renee Page, program administrative assistant for the Office of External Programs in...
Michael Konen, Michael Morris, Brendon Swedlow and Jeanne Jakubowski
Teachers cannot fake or hide genuine enthusiasm for knowledge. They cannot keep it to themselves, or can they control when they spark it in their students. This month, NIU honors three of its teachers – Michael Konen, Michael Morris and Brendon Swedlow – for passing their zeal onto their undergraduate students. The trio is this...
Photo of a medal on a red, white and blue ribon
The 2011 Outstanding Women Student Awards have been presented to 48 women from across all disciplines at Northern Illinois University and representing undergraduates, graduate students and law students. NIU’s Presidential Commission on the Status of Women gave out the awards during its April 17 reception on campus. The recognition program was created in 1980 and is held annually to:...
NIU has named Cliff Mirman, Susan Russell and Kendall Thu as its first-ever Presidential Engagement Professors. The honor is based on President John Peters’ call for “engagement with the community through research, economic development, service and instruction. Establishment of these professorships places NIU in the company of the growing number of institutions which now recognize and...
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