“How can my organization benefit from technology, the Internet, social media and mobile devices?”
NIU students in CLCE 350: Community Organizations in a Digital World attempted to answer that question by organizing and presenting a technology conference for DeKalb-area nonprofit organizations earlier this month.
The conference was presented by NIU’s Center for Non-Governmental Organization Leadership and...
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Scientists from Northern Illinois University and 25 other institutions worldwide are planning an experiment that could open the doors to new realms of particle physics – and new opportunities for NIU students to participate in leading-edge research.
But first the core of the experiment – a complex electromagnet that spans 50 feet in diameter –must...
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Researchers at Lincoln Park Zoo and Northern Illinois University have discovered a new culprit contributing to amphibian decline and altered mammal distribution throughout the Midwest region – the invasive plant European buckthorn.
This non-native shrub, which has invaded two-thirds of the United States, has long been known to negatively impact plant community composition and forest...
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After Haiti’s devastating earthquake in 2010, more than half of U.S. households donated to thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in that country.
Yet we continue to hear stories of misery. Why have NGOs failed at their mission?
NIU professor Mark Schuller examines that very question in his new book, “Killing with Kindness: Haiti, International Aid, and...
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It could be the opening scene of a new Indiana Jones blockbuster, complete with a storybook setting that is rich in both mystery and archaeological treasures.
After all, more than 2,000 temples and shrines dot the landscape of Bagan, the ancient royal capital of Myanmar. It was here in 1988, amid the country’s political unrest,...
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NIU has named Dan Gebo in anthropology, Paul Kelter in literacy education and Zhili Xiao in physics as its 2013 Board of Trustees Professors – a top university honor that recognizes faculty members for international renown in their research and excellence in all facets of teaching.
Gebo’s paleontological research is elucidating the origins of primates....
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Spring-breakers headed for the beachfront be forewarned: It’s not just polluted water that can harbor illness-causing microbes; digging around in the sand can pose risks, too, especially for children.
“Beach sand is definitely a major source of pathogen exposures,” says Northern Illinois University’s Tomoyuki Shibata, a professor of public health and an associate of the...
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Brian Guthrie, a senior NIU geology major, says his recent experience in the Antarctic as part of a major research team was, well, out of this world.
The icy desert continent “was like nothing I’d ever seen before,” says the 23-year-old St. Charles native, who spent more than a month in Antarctica.
At one point, he...
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NIU’s David Henningsen remembers being intrigued in graduate school by a study that found men often overestimate the romantic interest of women.
“That struck me as being really sad, because I really didn’t think women were all that interested in me to begin with,” Henningsen laughs.
It also led him to the idea that there might...
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A team of scientists that includes Northern Illinois University researchers has successfully drilled through the overlying Antarctic ice sheet and sampled directly the waters and sediments of Subglacial Lake Whillans.
The effort is making headlines today: It marks the first successful retrieval of clean whole samples from an Antarctic subglacial lake, according to a statement...
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