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Earlier this month, the College of Business was proudly accepted into the Latin American Council of Management Schools (CLADEA) at the organization’s 58th annual meeting of the International Congress. College of Business Interim Dean Denise Schoenbachler, along with Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs Anthony Preston, and Graduate Student Experience and Engagement Coordinator Bennett Piscopo, traveled...
” As far as homes go, it wasn’t much. Just one room, maybe 12 feet by 12 feet. No kitchen. No bathroom. One twin-size mattress, an inch or two thick at the most. A portable burner in one corner along with a couple dishes. A stack of journals. Vehicles could not reach the humble structure,...
‘Breathtaking experience’ A trip to Barbados forever changed the perspective of several Huskies. Students Jaelyn Logan, Romeo Bell and Mitraya Williams recently took part in a spring break program designed for students to examine issues of diversity, equity and inclusion and the history of the Island of Barbados and the significant role it played under...
  The first students from Southeast Asia arrived on the campus of what then was known as the Northern Illinois State Normal School in 1903. “One of the really interesting things about Indonesia, and really all of Southeast Asia, is how deep and how long our commitment is to the region,” says Bob Brinkmannn, dean...
Northern Illinois University recently signed a Level One Memorandum of Understanding with University of Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar (UCAD) in Senegal. The agreement opens the door for discussions and collaborations in four areas: grant writing and management; research and curriculum development; graduate student mentoring and faculty/graduate student exchanges. UCAD of Dakar, with an enrollment...
In November, Dr. King Chung and five NIU audiology students joined forces with students and faculty from Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) in Brazil on a mission trip to Kraków, Poland, where they provided free hearing services for school children, members of a community center, and Ukrainian refugees at Krakow, Poland. The...
Laura Ruth Johnson Laura Ruth Johnson knew that some of the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment’s out-of-date computers were just sitting in storage rooms. Johnson also knew where those 21 iMacs could return to life and to resume their mission of teaching and learning: Loiza, Puerto Rico. So she took that idea to...
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...
NIU School of Music Professor of Jazz Studies Rodrigo Villanueva has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to spend four months in Brazil researching Afro-Brazilian rhythms and teaching at two universities, the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (May 1 through June 30, 2022) and Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (July 1 through August 31, 2022). In addition, Villanueva...
The Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL), a project of the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA) that began with a federal grant in 2005, is a virtual Southeast Asia treasure trove hosted by NIU Libraries. A digital archive of textual, still image, sound and video resources, SEADL is a free resource for anyone...
Catrina Sanfilippo Catrina Sanfilippo long has understood the value of mentoring, something that continues to influence her career path. Now the certified athletic trainer and current graduate student in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education is reaping the benefits of networking. Thanks to a contact from her current freelance gig with ATI Sports Medicine, Sanfilippo volunteered in...
Fourteen NIU College of Education students will travel to Kenya and Tanzania in 2022 for a personal immersion to understand the challenges of not only learning another language but learning in it. Pending COVID restrictions at the time, the new Educate Global experience in East Africa will transport seven undergraduate teacher-licensure candidates and seven graduate students who are already...
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