What do a mobile app to efficiently deploy National Guard troops following a natural disaster, a data visualization tool to map opioid hotspots and a game to get children exercising and eating healthy have in common? They are all projects imagined and
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Recess is fun and games for most elementary school students, but it’s not always without problems. For one, it’s often lightly supervised. And, says Zach Wahl-Alexander, assistant professor of Physical Education, it’s likely parent-volunteers and not teachers who are in charge. Meanwhile,
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Jamal Murphy is not a typical NIU College of Education teacher-licensure candidate. Raised on the West Side of Chicago, Murphy encountered an eighth-grade teacher who told him he would drop out by his sophomore year. What? Not finish high school? “Once
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Cold winds blew across the Brooks Elementary School playground Halloween morning, but those chills couldn’t stop the fun of bowling soccer balls and poofy balls toward a 10-pin pumpkin or running relays around hay bales. Within the warmth of the building, an
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The Board of Trustees voted Thursday, Dec. 7, to lower fees and not to increase tuition for the 2018-19 academic year. “We realize that earning a degree from an institution like NIU can be life-changing for a student, and we are committed to
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NIU’s Tocqueville Forum has launched an online journal of essays by undergraduate students on current American political issues related to political philosophy, history, literature and culture. “Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas” will publish essays from undergraduates at colleges and
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NIU alumnus Justin Whiting is helping to shape the future of additive manufacturing, working for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop and evaluate measurement science in this new and booming field. In August, Whiting presented at a national
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NIU doctoral student and long-time NIU employee Susana Das Neves is thrilled that she can fulfill a professional goal while also giving back to her Latin@ community. As the coordinator of Universidad para Padres (Parent University), Das Neves can do just that.
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Would you rather have hands for feet – or feet for hands? Would you rather have the hiccups for the rest of your life – or the feeling that you’re about to sneeze? Would you rather eat brownies for the rest of your
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NIU will confer an honorary doctorate degree this fall to Vullnet Ameti, a man who demonstrated his belief in education as a human right by helping to establish the only Albanian university in Macedonia. The rector of the University of Tetovo (UT)
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More members of the NIU community came together than ever before to show their support for NIU students during the NIU Foundation’s most recent Giving Tuesday campaign. More than 300 donors participated, with annual gifts totaling nearly $95,000. “We’ve seen steady growth
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NIU sophomore Chad Wilson isn’t waiting until he graduates to take on the business world. Wilson and his business partner, Jordan Horwitz, are developing an electric cruiser motorcycle prototype they hope will eventually become a product on the market. “This is
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