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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More than 5,000 teachers of students with visual impairments from across the country have completed an online course developed and hosted at NIU with support from a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The course, known as UEBOT-1 (Unified English Braille
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From left: Nicholas Grahovec, Brad Bond, Chad McEvoy,Steve Howell and Paul Wright NIU’s Division of International Affairs honored the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KNPE) with its 2019 Award for Outstanding Department Contribution to International Education. Recipients are chosen for meeting one or more of these
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Alumnus Dean DuCray (B.S. 1964 ACCY and pictured far right) received an honorary doctorate at the NIU graduate commencement ceremony on December 14. DuCray’s journey is summarized below, as conveyed in the nomination letter written by NIU Business Dean Balaji Rajagopalan. Portions from Dean Rajagopalan’s letter are reposted
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The NIU Art Museum’s School of Art and Design Faculty Biennial exhibition opens Tuesday, January 14 with a public reception on Thursday, January 23 from 5-7 p.m. Shown every two years, this invitational exhibit features recent artwork and scholarship by current faculty and teaching staff
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You could say Professor Elizabeth Gaillard has had her eye on this for decades. She spent years of toiling away in the lab determined to help detect and find a cure for leading causes of blindness. Years of patents and research funding sought
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Laura Ruth Johnson Some of the world’s greatest wisdom is stored only in the minds of people who’ve inherited this information from the generations that have come before them. However, much traditional research overlooks this grassroots knowledge and expertise in favor of
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