Category: Liberal Arts and Sciences
Awarded one of the most competitive and respected scientific fellowships in the country, Sarah Shapley credits the many trips she took with her dad to national parks, the support system around her at NIU and luck. Those who worked with her in the Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences say Shapley devoured the unique research...
Join your colleagues in congratulating the newly named Board of Trustees Professor; Presidential Teaching Professor; Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professors; Presidential Engagement Professor; and the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and Instruction Award recipients at an event held in their honor on Thursday, April 25, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Altgeld Auditorium. A...
Join your colleagues in congratulating the newly named Board of Trustees Professor; Presidential Teaching Professor; Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professors; Presidential Engagement Professor; and the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and Instruction Award recipients at an event held in their honor on Thursday, April 25, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Altgeld Auditorium. A...
DeKalb, IL. – The NIU Department of Communication is bringing three nights of student films to Cole Hall’s Jameson Auditorium with the 18th installment of the Reality Bytes Independent Student Film Festival, beginning at 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 9. The events are free and open to the public. Films screenings are also scheduled for Wednesday, April 10,...
History Professor Emma Kuby has a new book out that sheds light on the history of efforts by political survivors after 1945 to end concentration camps during the Cold War. Kuby will deliver a talk on the book, entitled Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945 (Cornell...
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), Scotland’s National Academy, has named 62 new Fellows, including NIU physics professor Swapan Chattopadhyay. Chattopadhyay was one of only four newly named Corresponding Fellows, a title reserved for those “who have attained high international standing in any subject within the Society’s disciplinary domains and are not normally resident in the U.K.”...
Two NIU faculty members were recognized for their achievements during the annual American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) convention in New Orleans. Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg, assistant professor of Spanish linguistics, received the Early Career Scholar Award. The award, first given in 2017, recognizes the work of emerging scholars by reviewing their research, contributions...
Kurt Thurmaier, NIU Presidential Engagement Professor and chair of the Department of Public Administration, School of Public and Global Affairs, has been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Fellows are nominated by current Academy members, and election follows a rigorous review of the individual’s contributions to the field of public...
“I’m a First-Gen College Student” will bring together first-generation students, faculty, staff and recent alumni with Welcome Events from 4 to 6 p.m. Sept. 4 and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 5 at Founders Memorial Library. To help launch the program, we’re telling just some of the many first-generation stories here at NIU....
Thanks to NIU’s Center for Nonprofit and NGO Studies, hundreds of humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may be able to deliver help to the impoverished people of Haiti that is more in tune with what Haitian people say they need. It has been estimated that NGOs and charitable groups deliver 80 percent of the basic services...
