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Major: Mechanical Engineering (graduation anticipated from RVC Spring 2019; NIU Spring 2021) NIU Engineering at RVC program Internship: Accuride, September 2017 – December 2018; Woodward, December 2018 – present Hometown: Rockford, IL High School: Boylan What drew you to engineering? My cousin Tadd works in Abu Dhabi as a civil engineer. He was the first...
The NIU College of Business continues to be ranked among an exclusive group of the best undergraduate business schools in the country.  The latest ranking results come from Poets&Quants,the leading online publication for undergraduate business education news.  In its third annual ranking, the publication ranks NIU’s business college in the top 100 (80th) within a prestigious group...
Based upon its steadfast approach to both recruiting and supporting international students, the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering recently won the 2018 Award for Outstanding Department Contribution to International Education at NIU. Murali Krishnamurthi, a professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, as well as the vice provost for faculty affairs at NIU, nominated the department...
How do you compose a theme for a Star Wars project and make it “sound like Star Wars” without using any of John Williams’ iconic score? That’s a challenge NIU School of Music alumnus Jermaine Stegall took head on when charged with creating music for Lucasfilm’s Our Star Wars Stories. “For these episodes we didn’t have a...
Northern Illinois University College of Law was honored by the Lawyers’ Assistance Program (LAP) with the Warren Wolfson Excellence in Education Award. The award, which was presented during their annual dinner, recognized the College of Law for its dedication to improving the well-being of its students and promoting the Illinois Lawyers’ Assistance Program within its community....
Contingent on approval from the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), the University of Tetovo(UT) anticipates welcoming NIU Business faculty in spring 2019 when they travel to the Balkan Peninsula to provide MBA instruction to students from Macedonia. This academic proposal – created through a strong partnership that the NIU College of Business established with UT, and with...
William “Dre” Buchanan, ’99, said he always wanted to get into the entertainment industry, but knew he had to make a living. After graduating from NIU with electrical engineering major, he worked as an engineer for several companies. He was a project engineer for Underwriters Laboratories and later became a project manager for Transit Television Network to...
Students will have a new provider of health care services when classes resume next semester. The NIU Board of Trustees approved an agreement Nov. 15 to have Northwestern Medicine assume management of Health Services, effective Jan. 7. Such a change was among the recommendations stemming from the Program Prioritization process. “We are excited to enter...
Work being done to increase retention and narrow the equity gap in the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology at NIU is gaining worldwide attention. A three-pronged strategy developed by Shanthi Muthuswamy, associate professor of engineering technology, recently earned recognition through an Airbus GEDC (Global Engineering Deans Council) Diversity Award program. NIU advanced as a...
Joanne Chamberlain Krakora graduated high school in a class with 27 classmates she’d known since kindergarten in the small town of Toulon, Ill. Neither of her parents had attended college. When she arrived on NIU’s campus, she wasn’t quite sure which way to turn. “It was a bit overwhelming,” she remembered. “I’ve never been someone...
The NIU Libraries’ Textbook Task Force came together last fall with a straightforward vision: to improve NIU students’ access to textbooks. The task force, made up of NIU faculty librarians (also known as subject specialists) and staff members, was responding to a nationwide problem. According to a 2017 study, 85 percent of college students in...
Research funding awarded to faculty and staff saw a healthy spike in Fiscal Year 2018, according to the new annual report from NIU’s Sponsored Programs Administration. Funding for NIU research surged 26 percent over the previous year to $12.2 million. Federal agencies provided 90 percent of NIU’s research funding, supporting work across a wide array...
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