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Sebring Software, Inc., named Northern Illinois University alumnus Larry Colton as chief financial officer.  As the company gains momentum in dental practice management (DPM), a new finance officer is primed to take Sebring into a vigorous acquisitions phase, according to a company news release. Colton, who earned his MBA from NIU, has served as the company’s vice president...
John Sall
NIU will confer an honorary doctoral degree this spring to John Sall, executive vice president of the SAS Institute and head of its JMP business division. Sall will receive his honorary doctorate during the Graduate School commencement ceremony, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 9, in the NIU Convocation Center. A native of Rockford who...
Jeanne Weiland Herrick is one of two Northwestern University professors named Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lecturers or Clinical Professors. Herrick, who holds a M.A. from Northern Illinois University, is a senior lecturer in the writing program in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Herrick’s main goal is to create active learners. Her students will tell you she has...
Winnetka Public Schools District 36 announced that Northern Illinois University alumna and doctoral student Elizabeth P. Martin has accepted and been approved for the district’s director of student services post. Martin will begin her new position on May 27, 2014. Martin will join the district after seven years as the director of student services at Prairie Grove...
The Village of Tinley Park named David J. Niemeyer, 53, as its next village manager. Niemeyer, who is currently serving as village manager in Oak Brook, will begin his new role in Tinley Park on June 2. Niemeyer received a bachelor of science degree in political science in 1983 and a master of public administration degree...
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The Northern Illinois University Alumni Association recognized the achievements of outstanding alumni during its annual awards dinner at the Pollock Ballroom in the Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center on Friday, April 25. The following recipients were selected based on outstanding professional and personal successes in addition to involvement in civic, cultural or charitable activities:  ...
University Honors student and Research Rookie presented “Total Synthesis of Rottlerin” with Theodore J. Litberg
NIU junior Linnea Scherer hopes to change the way women are portrayed in video games, and she already has developed an impressive game concept thanks to the McKearn Summer Fellows program she participated in last year. “The McKearn Fellows Program was amazing. It was what got me to this point,” says Scherer of Elburn, a...
The YMCA of Rock River Valley has expanded its board of directors with four new members, including Northern Illinois University graduate Michael Gann. Each new member will serve a three-year term, assisting the board with the strategic oversight of the YMCA of Rock River Valley in achieving its mission of building a healthy spirit, mind and...
Matt Christensen, a graduate of the Northern Illinois University MBA program, has been appointed director of North America Sales and Marketing at Concentric Rockford Inc. (formerly Haldex Hydraulics). Christensen, 39, began his career at Rockford in 1998, when the company was known as John S. Barnes, rising to become engineering manager. In 2006, he left the...
  Northern Illinois University is anticipating a large turnout of prospective students and guests at its Spring Open House on Friday, April 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the admissions office is seeking staff volunteers to help with the event. “Due to the high student interest in NIU’s Spring Open House Friday, we...
James McLurkin
NIU’s Graduate Student Research Association will host its annual conference Saturday April 19. Graduate students will share their research through 39 posters and 33 paper presentations. Campus resources and opportunities will be shared through tables and sessions from the Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, and Energy; the Center for Black Studies; the...
NIU: Celebrating Excellence
Northern Illinois University’s second-annual Celebrating Excellence event—which begins Saturday, April 12, and runs through May 1—has more than tripled in terms of the number of functions highlighting the many accomplishments and contributions of NIU students, faculty and staff to the university’s mission during the academic year. Last year’s event included 16 different activities. “We invite...
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