This semester the University Honors Program (UHP) has instituted an award to recognize faculty mentors who provided outstanding support and guidance to Honors students completing their capstones. This is an especially meaningful award as nominations come from student mentees who are moved
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Four outstanding employees have been recognized for their contributions to NIU. The Operating Staff Council named civil service employees Alan Clemens, Jennifer Ridge, Leslie Shive and Patricia Wallace as recipients of the Operating Staff Outstanding Service Award. Recipients are chosen for demonstrating
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How are businesses meeting the challenges of the current economy? How are consumers interacting with businesses, and what permanent changes should we expect? Learn about the creative ways in which businesses large and small, rural and urban, are responding to current challenges
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In the front entrance of the Impact Lab (a suite located in Barsema Hall), stands a large sign that reads: “Welcome to No Classrooms.” It’s a clear declaration of the type of engaged learning that happens in the Experiential Learning Center (ELC), a program created by the NIU College of Business in 1998. ELC classes bring together students’ open-mindedness and faculty thought-leadership to solve firm-specific problems. It
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Kymberly Messersmith, ’88, was always interested in government. One might even say it was in her blood. “My father (Frank Messersmith) was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in my final years of high school, and I would spend time in
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NIU President Lisa C. Freeman and the student organization, Dream Action NIU are the recipients of this year’s Eychaner Award, the longest standing LGBTQ+ advocacy award given at the university. Established in 1995 to honor its namesakes, Milly Eychaner a 1941 graduate
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Eighteen months after its launch, the partnership with Northwestern Medicine to manage the NIU Student Health Center has proven to be just what the doctor ordered. For decades, the center has provided basic outpatient health care to students. However, the ever-increasing complexity
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The Missionary Innovative Robust (M.I.R.) Lunar Team poses for a group photo prior to submitting their proposal to the NASA 2020 BIG Idea Challenge in fall 2019. Four team members won scholarships this month from the Illinois Space Grant Consortium: mechatronics majors
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When it comes to music, Marquis Hill is the best of the proverbial best. An experienced trumpeter and music teacher, he has performed alongside today’s top artists in jazz festivals and competitions. He has been honored with many prestigious awards and scholarships, including the 2014 Thelonious Monk Trumpet Competition,
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Celine Taylor wanted to distribute more surveys investigating the distracted driving habits and traffic-related injuries of motorcycle riders in Myanmar. Isabella Guizzetti hoped to return to an NIU lab after Spring Break to repeat some of her experiments on hepatocellular carcinoma cell
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In a normal May, NIU calendars fill with ceremonies in honor of soon-to-be Huskie graduates. COVID-19 canceled those events this year, of course, but the virus could not stop the power of technology and social media to continue the springtime traditions in
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The Illinois Board of Higher Education has selected Northern Illinois University President Dr. Lisa C. Freeman to serve on a committee that will help shape how campuses across the state reopen safely this fall amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “Higher education leaders,
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