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NIU’s Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Studies will host an upcoming public lecture delivered by renowned cancer researcher Channing Der. Der is considered one of the world’s leading experts on the RAS family of oncogenes and their role in driving cancer-cell growth. He serves as the Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at the...

Why have we not cured the diseases we call cancer after decades of intensive research? How much progress have we made? What is “precision” or “personalized” medicine, and how does it apply to the underpinnings of cancer biology? These are some of the important questions that will be addressed by Barrie Bode at the next...

NIU’s Holmes Student Center will “Light It Up for Emily” in shades of green and purple during the week of June 1. The colorful lights are part of a campaign to spotlight awareness of childhood cancer, specifically the case of 12-year-old Emily Beazley, who died Monday from an aggressive Stage III ​T-cell Lymphoblastic Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma....

Cancer is something we hear about every day, and nearly everyone has had a family member or friend affected by it – but what exactly is it? Why have we not cured the disease after decades of intensive research? These are some of the important questions that will be addressed by Barrie Bode at the...

The American Cancer Society predicts that the United States will have 1,658,370 new cancer cases diagnosed and 589,430 cancer deaths in this year alone. Experts agree that the best way to fight cancer is to stay healthy and active and to get recommended screening tests, but early detection can be difficult because of expensive, outdated...

NSF’s PROMISE Scholars Program will present a talk Wednesday, Oct. 8, on mathematical models in the detection, treatment and management of cancer Evans Afenya will speak to NSF PROMISE Scholars from 2 to 4 p.m. as part of their virtual seminar series in Room 100 of Campus Life Building. Afenya, chair of the Mathematics Department...

It’s time to fight back against cancer! The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Northern Illinois University has set the 2014 event date from 6 p.m. Saturday, April 5, through 6 a.m. Sunday, April 6, at the Chick Evans Field House. Relay For Life, the world’s largest grassroots fundraising movement, mobilizes communities throughout the...

“The God Gene,” a satirical thriller by Jaymie Simmon, B.A. ’70, won the 2013 National Indie Excellence Award for Literary Fiction. The novel was also a finalist in the 2013 Midwest Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction, and a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award for Fiction. “Winning an award is exciting, but...

“Laboratory Professionals Get Results” is the theme of Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, which is celebrated from Monday, April 22, through Friday, April 26, this year. The Medical Laboratory Sciences Club of Northern Illinois University is inviting the campus community to find out more about Laboratory Professionals through a “Be The Match” registration event. From 10...

Local teens are invited to read “The Fault in Our Stars” by wildly popular author John Green and then come together for the STEM Teen Read book discussion, scheduled at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, in Graham Hall 223. Experts from NIU and the community will join the teen readers to discuss the science behind the fiction in one...

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...

Dr. Janet Rowley, a highly awarded professor of hematology and oncology in the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago,will visit the NIU campus Thursday, Oct. 6, to give a seminar on her life and work. Rowley will speak at 3:30 p.m. in the Terwilliger Auditorium of Montgomery Hall. The event is free...