NIU’s Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic is offering selected audiology services through July. Patients may schedule curbside or drop-off hearing aid repairs at the clinic, 3100 Sycamore Road in DeKalb. Call 815-753-1481 for same-day, curbside service. Drop-offs are accepted from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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NIU faculty, staff and students are getting adjusted to working from home which means many hours will be spent in front of a laptop or desktop computer. This will inevitably result in neck and back or even hand and wrist pain. Research
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As their culminating experience at NIU, five digital marketing graduate students helped ease the burden placed on small businesses during the pandemic-related shutdown. The students in MKTG 684 – Capstone Application in Digital Marketing taught by Mya Groza, Ph.D., an associate professor
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When you ask Sandy López’s children how many siblings they have, they often respond, “There are only two of us, but our NIU family is huge!” That’s because López has been deeply ingrained within the NIU community for over 30 years dating
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It took Jill Krueger years to figure out what she wanted to do with her career, but when she found it, there was no going back. To Krueger, there is nothing better than making a business successful while improving people’s lives. As
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Exciting things are happening for Associate Professor of Engineering Technology Shanthi Muthuswamy, Ph.D. In January 2020 she joined the executive committee as the vice president of the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE), which has made history for the organization. “We have had only
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Michael Vazquez’s discoveries benefit patients worldwide every day. In March, Vazquez will be recognized with the NIUAA’s Alumni Achievement in the Sciences Award. As senior vice president, head of chemistry and a co-founder of Lynk Pharmaceuticals, the work he is doing has a
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The office of the president of Phi Beta Delta (PBD) international academic society is now located on the NIU DeKalb campus. In May, NIU’s Sarah Lindell was named 2020 president of the national chapter’s board. “It was a great honor to accept
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NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) congratulates five teams that were presented with awards from the Engineering and Technology Alumni Society on Senior Design Day on May 8, 2020, the first such event held virtually in the college’s history. The
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Members of the Black Law Students Association Northern Illinois University College of Law was named as one of the top 30 law schools in the nation for African American students by preLaw magazine. As part of its Winter 2020 issue on Best Law Schools
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Advertising students in Professor David Henningsen’s class learned more than expected from a final project. They knew they’d gain valuable hands-on experience working with a real-life client to create a commercial, but they didn’t know the project would involve a lesson in
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Study abroad is an exciting way to earn academic credit, appreciate a new culture and build a resume. In mid-March, the Study Abroad Office staff learned that the latter half of spring programs and all summer study abroad programs had to be
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