Category: Research
NIU’s campus is buzzing with undergraduate research participants this summer. Students from both NIU and colleges and universities across the country have gathered to participate in eight weeks of formal programming. The students are focused into three programs: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), McKearn Summer Fellows and the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP). Each program...
Professor Sanjib Basu, director of NIU’s Division of Statistics, has been named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, ASA President Nathaniel Schenker has announced. To be recognized by the nation’s preeminent professional statistical society as a 2014 ASA Fellow, each honoree must make outstanding professional contributions to, and have exhibited leadership in, the field...
NIU psychology professor Lisa Finkelstein found love at a professional conference. You can, too, she says. She is not talking about romantic love, but the kind of love that emanates from shared positive experience. And you can find it almost anywhere. In a newly posted Psychology Today blog, Finkelstein discusses how this type of love,...
An employee in the office receives a flexible time schedule, much to the irritation of her coworkers, who must stick to the 9-to-5 regimen. Because she often arrives an hour or two after everyone else, peers are forced to re-arrange daily meeting schedules. They feel it’s unfair and inequitable. What this woman’s coworkers don’t know...
The Illinois Science & Technology Coalition (ISTC), a not-for-profit organization focused on growing the state’s innovation economy, today announced that NIU President Doug Baker will serve as chairman of the ISTC Board of Directors. Baker replaces outgoing board chair Eric Isaacs, provost of the University of Chicago and former director of Argonne National Laboratory and...
Could something as simple as aspirin be the key to controlling harmful insects? That’s the question NIU Biological Sciences Professor Jon Miller asked when he began his research on insect cellular immunity. His discoveries could eventually lead to safer, greener pest-control practices for agriculture. Miller will be the guest speaker at the next STEM Café,...
Rena Cotsones, assistant vice president of regional engagement for Northern Illinois University, has been appointed chair of the governing board for the Joint Institute of Engineering & Technology (JiET). JiET is operated through Rockford Area Strategic Initiatives (RASI), the nonprofit arm of the Rockford Area Economic Development Council (RAEDC). “The creation of JiET-A was one...
An NIU Department of Geography student and professor are among the 2014 honorees of the National Council for Geographic Education. Student Joseph Tackes collected an NCGE/AAG Excellence of Scholarship Award. Tackes and 21 others from across the country were chosen by university faculty as the best all-around undergraduate student geography scholars. Thomas J. Pingel, an...
New this year: NIU’s Research Rookies program is accepting first-semester transfer students. The Research Rookies program links students with faculty mentors in their majors or areas of interest to conduct a small-scale research projects. Students applying must be incoming freshmen, sophomores or first-semester transfer students. Students must also be committed to participate in the program...
Northern Illinois University physics professor Omar Chmaissem, an NIU alumnae and a current postdoctoral student are key members of a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory shedding light this week on the mysteries of superconductivity. In a study published today in “Nature Communications,” the team announces the discovery of...
Researchers from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering are planning to conduct a study that measures how different automotive passenger seats affect physiological, biomechanical exposures and perceived comfort. They hope the results of this study will help them evaluate the current designs and potentially lead to the identification of additional design modifications to further...
Northern Illinois University President Doug Baker announced that following a search for a new executive vice president and provost, Lisa Freeman has been appointed to the position effective immediately. Lesley Rigg will serve as vice president for research and innovation partnerships. “As the search progressed, it became clear what we had already known—that Lisa Freeman is exceptionally...
