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Category: Liberal Arts and Sciences
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...
One of the youngest programs in the country, NIU’s undergraduate mock trial program started in 2012 and is already earning a national reputation, recently hosting a tournament on campus that drew teams from across the United States. Last month, NIU’s Political Science Department and the Law School hosted 22 teams from across the country who...
This is a time of transition throughout the University and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is no exception. Dean Chris McCord, who led the college for nearly a decade, was named Acting Provost in June. Judy Ledgerwood was confirmed by the Board of Trustees as Acting Dean during their August meeting. Ledgerwood, a...
Veteran anthropology professor Judy Ledgerwood, who for the past five years served as director of NIU’s internationally renowned Center for Southeast Asian Studies, has stepped into the role of acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. With 18 departments spanning the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences is...
The Spring 2017 Board of Trustees Professor Seminar – Science and the Public: Seeing Eye to Eye – will take place Monday, April 10, 2017, in the Capitol Room of the Holmes Student Center. Refreshments will be provided from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., with the presentation and Q&A to follow from 12 to 1...
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites the NIU community to participate in an upcoming CLAS Research Forum event, “Climate Change and Environmental Crises in a Changing World.” The event is scheduled for Monday, April 3, 2017 from 4 to 6 p.m. in Cole Hall Auditorium. Faculty Panelists include Ross Powell (Geology), Reed Scherer...
Northern Illinois University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences selected 11 recipients for the 2016 Distinguished Alumni, Faculty and Staff Awards. To date, the college has honored 126 alumni, faculty and staff. Dean Christopher McCord presented the 2016 awards on Friday, Oct. 21, during a dinner program in Altgeld Hall. Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients Peter...
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will present a roundtable discussion about electoral politics and democracy in America from 4:30-6 p.m., on Tuesday, Oct. 18, in the Montgomery Auditorium. This CLAS Research Forum program will include short, 5-7 minute presentations by the following faculty members followed by discussion: Matt Streb (Political Science), Electoral College...
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