Category: Faculty & Staff
The Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) today announced the appointment of Harry Berman to serve as its interim executive director. Berman served as provost and former interim chancellor at the University of Illinois-Springfield. Berman succeeds Executive Director George W. Reid, who on Wednesday announced his decision to step down. Gov. Pat Quinn noted the...
Good news for people who want to keep the environment clean, but don’t have time to put on hip waders and restore wetlands and prairies: Materials scientists are creating cleaner, greener products that can help you help the planet. Join NIU STEM Outreach at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, when its popular STEM Café series...
An adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” will be presented as the next Studio Series production of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance. “The Canterbury Tales” originally consisted of 24 stories written by Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. Eight of these stories have been adapted for the stage by visiting...
William A. Olekcno is the recipient of a 2012 Willard W. Patty Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indiana University School of Public Health. This award, named after the school’s first dean, is “presented annually to graduates of the school who have demonstrated outstanding personal and professional achievement.” The honor was presented Friday, Oct. 19, to...
This summer saw several changes to the piano inventory at the NIU School of Music. One of the finest changes arrived in the form of a Hamburg Steinway Model C, which became available in Chicago in July. The piano faculty went to try it and quickly fell in love with the instrument. Carla W. Montgomery,...
Led by Mathew Tembo, the NIU Afropop Ensemble will present a concert at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, in the Recital Hall of the Music Building. Currently a graduate student at NIU, Tembo is a well-known Afropop musician from Zambia, Central Africa. He takes music straight from the villages of Zambia, creating his own genre of...
The NIU Department of Geography invites the university community Wednesday, Nov. 14, to GIS Night. The event is part of global GIS Day activities, where thousands of users of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) showcase real-world applications of this exciting technology to schools, businesses and the general public. Visitors to Room 115 of Davis Hall from...
The NIU School of Music’s New Music Ensemble, under the direction of Gregory Beyer, has announced its third annual New Music Festival. Scheduled Tuesday, Nov. 6, and Wednesday, Nov. 7, this year’s celebration will spotlight music of would-be centenarian composer, John Cage (1912-1992), perhaps America’s most widely recognized avant-garde composer and thinker of the 20th...
A celebration of the life of Arthur Paul Doederlein will be held on campus this week. So what? That’s what Doederlein himself might have asked. Over the course of more than four decades at NIU, the professor of communication challenged thousands of his students to do the same. Along the way, he sparked their critical...
New technologies are making a permanent existence possible for temporary museum exhibits such “Lady in Red and Black: Ode to Northern Illinois,” which was created by Barbara Cole Peters in 2006. NIU’s Digital Convergence Lab recruited an interdisciplinary team of undergraduate and graduate students to expand Peters’ original concept into a virtual exhibit. The resulting...
Business moves faster and blurs borders now more than at any time in history. To keep pace, companies are looking for employees who bring a unique set of skills to the workplace, one that Northern Illinois University College of Business Fast-Track MBA programs are designed to provide. The program provides students with the full MBA...
How do educators help students identify and develop their passion for their professional careers? Professionals in the field of counseling, counselor education and teaching must nurture this desire to obtain the necessary knowledge and skills to be competent educators. So says Toni Tollerud, a Presidential Teaching Professor in the NIU College of Education’s Department of...