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Despite being ranked the happiest country in the world for the sixth year in a row, there is still homelessness and crime in Finland. However, unlike the United States, Finland has made remarkable progress in reducing homelessness over the last two decades. NIU Sociology Professor Fred Markowitz As a 2023-2024 American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellow, NIU Sociology...
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences honored 10 alumni, faculty and staff Oct. 28 during their annual event at Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center. The CLAS Distinguished Awards program honors individuals who have achieved prominence in their professional fields or who have made major contributions to the college, its mission and its reputation for excellence. The 2022 honorees...
As an inspiring professor, prolific author, ardent researcher, brilliant scholar and generous philanthropist, Carla Montgomery (Sept. 26, 1951 – Feb. 1, 2021) made a profound and lasting impact at Northern Illinois University and beyond. On Tuesday, Nov. 22, her friends, family, colleagues and students will gather to celebrate Dr. Montgomery’s life and the indelible positive difference...
The American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Energy and Fuels has named NIU Chemistry Professor Tao Li as the recipient of its 2022 Emerging Researcher Award. The award, accompanied by a plaque and $1,000 prize, recognizes and encourages scientists who are early or midway into their careers and have made sustained and distinguished contributions to the field of fuel chemistry. It...
Students from San Diego State University recently visited NIU as part of an exchange program that seeks to expose student groups that are underrepresented in the sciences to research projects, paths to graduate school and a network of supportive peers from other universities. The three-day late May visit, which also included a trip to the...
Bob and Lois Self have made a commitment to establish the Dr. Lois Self Fund in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, supporting faculty and students in their educational, research and artistry pursuits. The fund pays tribute to the significant contributions Lois made to the Women’s Studies Program, which later evolved...
Department of History Chair Valerie Garver is seeing the fruits of a fellowship that allowed her to spend all of last fall’s semester collaborating with other medieval historians in Germany. Garver, who teaches a variety of courses on the Middle Ages at NIU, was nominated and selected for the prestigious Mercator Fellowship to lecture, conduct...
Spend a few minutes reviewing letters supporting History Professor Beatrix Hoffman for a Board of Trustee Professorship and you’ll quickly find you need more time—there were more than a dozen lengthy testimonials to the quality of both her teaching and scholarship. Most importantly, it’s clear her students, colleagues and peers view her as a significant...
In March of 2020, the NIU undergraduate mock trial team was ecstatic when it was announced they had taken second place out of 24 teams at the Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS) tournament at the Kane County Judicial Center in Geneva, Illinois. This earned them a bid to the American Mock Trial Association’s (AMTA) National...
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences honored 12 alumni, faculty and staff Oct. 22 during their annual event at Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center. The CLAS Distinguished Awards program honors individuals who have achieved prominence in their professional fields or who have made major contributions to the college, its mission and its reputation for...
History Professor Sean Farrell and his former doctoral student Mathieu Billings have a new book out that sheds light on the history of Irish people in Illinois from the colonial period to the 21st century. Farrell and Billings, now a faculty associate in history and political science at the University of Indianapolis, will deliver a...
  Geraldine Heng, an award-winning author will present “What’s Religion Got to Do with It? Seeing, Reading, Teaching Race in the European Middle Ages” during the Department of History’s annual Lincoln Lecture, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9 virtually via Zoom. Advanced registration is required. Go to http://go.niu.edu/Lincoln-Lecture-RSVP to request a link to the...
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