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The College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) hosted a Manufacturing Innovation Symposium in November to introduce companies from across the region to how CEET and the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC) can partner with them to help their businesses thrive in a highly competitive marketplace. “We have a tremendous range of expertise in the...
Procurement Services and Contract Management is pleased to announce that Terrence (Terry) Michels joined the team as director on Dec. 4, 2023. Michels reports to Antoinette Bridges, executive director of PSCM. Michels brings broad experience in procurement, contract and vendor compliance, Illinois Higher Education procurement code and administrative rules, management of commercial card programs, product...
Northern Illinois University Libraries is pleased to announce the completion of the Street & Smith Project. First begun in 2020 with a grant of $338,630 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), this project involved partner libraries at NIU, Villanova University, Stanford University, Bowling Green State University, and Oberlin College and Conservatory, digitizing 113,342...
In 2022, Dr. Levi Harrison partnered with Northern Illinois University Esports to create the Fierce Gamer Scholarship. Dr. Harrison is an orthopedic surgeon known as “the gamers and esports doctor” who is dedicated to promoting mental, physical and emotional health among video gamers. The annual $1,000 Fierce Gamer Scholarships are awarded to NIU undergraduate students...
Northern Illinois University Libraries has acquired a subscription to a new service to help faculty, staff and students find grant funding to support their research, scholarship, artistry and engagement projects. The service, Funding Institutional, provides a searchable database of funding organizations, more than 37,000 active and recurring funding opportunities, and over 7 million awarded grants. Users...
The NIU School of Nursing hosted its inaugural Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Immersion Day in September, bringing together more than 25 current DNP students. Dr. Katherine Coulter “The event allowed DNP students to collaborate with professionals from the DNP faculty as well as  other disciplines within the university,” said Katherine Coulter, assistant professor and...
Blindness and visual disabilities do not discriminate. Anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or creed, can face a lifetime of limited vision or no sight at all. For some, it begins at birth. For others, it can come with age, disease or accident. No one is immune. Members of that population have for...
Three College of Health and Human Sciences (CHHS) students earned the opportunity to attend the Health in Entrepreneurship Research Forum held in Chicago on Oct. 13-14. Event organizers included Tim Michaelis, assistant professor of entrepreneurship at NIU College of Business, who along with Becca Husar, associate director for Innovation and Partnership Development, provided CHHS with...
Thanksgiving can be a special time of coming together and making memories. This year, two NIU students took this to a new level, organizing a Thanksgiving meal for more than 100 people at Ellington’s Restaurant in the Holmes Student Center – a gathering that included their families and multiple generations of Huskies. Gabby Bostwick and...
Growing up in Janesville, Minnesota, Dara Little showed early signs of being organized, detail-oriented and endlessly curious—cornerstone traits for anyone looking to carve out a successful career as a research administrator. Embarking on such a path didn’t come close to being on young Dara’s radar, though. As the next president of the Society of Research...
Two NIU health care disciplines joined forces Oct. 27 during an interprofessional education mass casualty and emergency care simulation event at Anderson Hall. The learning opportunity started as part of a College of EducationInstructional Innovation Grant written by Tyler Wood and  Nicholas Grahovec, both assistant professors in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education. “Events like...
NIU’s Division of Academic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ADEI) recently welcomed Jade Silva Tovar as the new assistant vice president for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Officially joining the Huskie family on Oct. 23, Silva Tovar brings more than a decade’s worth of experience in higher education. Having worked in multiple capacities across several higher education...
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