Category: Awards
The Northern Star indcuted six alumni into its Hall of Fame during a Saturday, March 2, banquet at the Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center. The Northern Star Hall of Fame honors former students, advisers and friends of the Northern Star who significantly affected the Northern Star, journalism or related fields, or who have otherwise received...
Northern Illinois University recently earned three awards for publications submitted to the Higher Ed Marketing Report’s 28th Annual Educational Advertising Awards competition. NIU’s publication about educating tomorrow’s teachers, “iPledge allegiance,” was a bronze medal winner in the brochure category. The publication topped brochures from Cal State Northridge, Drexel, Liberty and George Mason, among others. The...
Who are the graduating seniors who have a healthy disregard for the impossible? Who are principled in their interactions with others and use their core values to guide their efforts, both personally and professionally? And who has made a meaningful contribution to NIU, the broader community and society? These are the individuals the university seeks...
The Outstanding Service Award is presented each year to up to four NIU Civil Service employees. The objective of this award program is to recognize individual Civil Service employees who have demonstrated outstanding service and have made significant contributions to the university community. A $1,500 taxable award and a plaque will be presented to each...
Northern Illinois freshman gymnast Jaelyn Olsen (Bethany, Okla./Putnam City West HS) has been named the Mid-American Conference Specialist of the Week, the league office announced Wednesday. Olsen collected the honor with a full-twisting yurchenko vault that earned a score of 9.875 from the judges Saturday at Iowa State. Olsen easily won the vault event, as...
The National Council of Teachers of English/Council on College Composition and Communication (NCTE/CCCC) has awarded associate professor of English Jessica Reyman its 2013 Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication. The award was given for a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly, “Technical...
Chang Liu, chair of Operations Management & Information Systems in the NIU College of Business, and his co-authors received the 2012 Citation of Excellence designation from Emerald Management Reviews. Their research paper was identified as one of the top 50 management, business, economics articles worldwide of 2008 by the Emerald Management Reviews judging panel. The...
It was a grand evening at Altgeld Hall as members of DeKalb’s business community and Northern Illinois University came together to honor small business leaders and NIU President John G. Peters at the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Meeting Jan. 31. NIU director of transportation Bill Finucane introduced President Peters, who received the Community Pride...
NIU’s Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center is seeking nominations for the 2013 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards. These awards acknowledge outstanding graduate teaching assistants for their contributions to the teaching mission of NIU. Each recipient of the award will be presented with a plaque and recognized at the Graduate Students Reception sponsored by the Graduate School at...
Five Northern Illinois University students who excel in their academic and humanitarian pursuits have been chosen to receive the 2013 Forward, Together Forward Scholarships. The recipients – Taylor Bogan, Caitlin Cavannaugh, Guadalupe Lopez, Sarah Pollack and Evan Wittke – each will receive a one-time scholarship of $4,000 for the 2013-14 academic year. “As educators, we are...
Northern Illinois’ Ryan Neir was named the Mid-American Conference Male Scholar-Athlete of the Week for the week of Dec. 31 through Jan. 6, the league office announced Monday. This marks the sixth time that a Huskie has won the honor this year, as MacKenzie Roddy (Oct. 4), Mike Mascitti (Nov. 15), Nabal Jefferson and Amanda Corral (Dec....
The National Football Foundation (NFF) today announced the names of the 15 faculty athletics representatives who will be honored as part of the 2012 NFF Faculty Salute Initiative, including Matt Streb of Northern Illinois University. The award, sponsored by Fidelity Investments, honors the significant contributions of faculty athletics representatives across the nation. “For more than...