If your New Year’s Resolution is to spend a little more time giving back to your community, don’t forget that the Huskies Give Back program now allows NIU employees to spend one paid day off per fiscal year volunteering at approved schools,
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In case you cannot tell by looking at her pages-long resume of Broadway stage productions, television programs and award-winning films, actress Joan Allen has a thing about work ethic. After four decades of stage and screen acting, she has not forgotten what
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Professor emeritus and former dean Paul S. Burtness, Ph.D. passed away at his home in Sycamore on Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. Burtness joined the Northern Illinois University English Department in 1953, teaching courses in the history of the language, Chaucer and Milton.
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When comedic actor Matt Walsh, ’87, and his six brothers and sisters were growing up in Chicago in the late 1960s and ’70s, there were not a lot of scheduled playdates, movie outings or grand vacations. “In our neighborhood, there were a
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A recently launched Families of NIU blog aims to help parents navigate the college process with advice, tips and personal stories from NIU employees who have been or will be in their shoes. As insiders of the campus community, employees will address
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Relocated from the Health Services Building, the Disability Resource Center has found a new, student-friendly home in the Campus Life Building. Employees settling into the spot as the new year began shared the same sentiment: “It’s the right place to be.” Aligned
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An important NIU organization has a new name and a new location. Effective immediately, NIU Student Association is now NIU Student Government Association (SGA), a name change that more accurately reflects the organization’s role on campus. “I am proud of the Student
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A lot of people want to change the world for the better, but few challenge the system straight out of school. Rachel Stuehm, who earned her doctorate in audiology from NIU in 2019, did just that. Along with dozens of other audiologists,
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NIU’s M.S.Ed. in Special Education has earned high kudos from Teacher.org, a national website “for teachers by teachers.” Following a review of “every single accredited ITP master’s program available,” the site’s editors “hand-selected the ones we could confidently recommend as the very best” in their 2019/2020
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James Mortell, ’15, works amongst robots, but it does not faze him. As a product engineer for Omron, an electronics company based in Kyoto, Japan, it is all in a day’s work. After three years of experience with Omron’s Vision Inspection
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Donald R. Peterson, Ph.D., NIU’s dean of the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology and mechanical engineering professor, was re-elected to a two-year term as chair of ASTM International’s exoskeletons and exosuits committee (F48). The committee’s task is to develop industry standards
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NIU meteorology professor Walker Ashley has been selected to present the Walter Orr Robert Lecture at the 100th Annual American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting in Boston Jan. 12-16, 2020. The Walter Orr Roberts Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Sciences is selected in recognition of
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