Category: Research
The National Council of Teachers of English/Council on College Composition and Communication (NCTE/CCCC) has awarded associate professor of English Jessica Reyman its 2013 Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication. The award was given for a special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly, “Technical...
The Northern Illinois University Center for Non-Governmental Organization Leadership and Development (NGOLD) is offering a research-related brown bag series that will kick off this month. Presenters are NGOLD faculty associates from departments across campus. “As an interdisciplinary center, one of NGOLD’s focal points is to foster a research environment that is conducive to those interested...
The Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning (OSEEL) has announced the new Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP). SROP was created to promote access to undergraduate research during the summer months. SROP will support between eight and 10 students who will work on faculty-mentored research from June 17 through Aug. 10. In SROP, students see...
Chang Liu, chair of Operations Management & Information Systems in the NIU College of Business, and his co-authors received the 2012 Citation of Excellence designation from Emerald Management Reviews. Their research paper was identified as one of the top 50 management, business, economics articles worldwide of 2008 by the Emerald Management Reviews judging panel. The...
A lounging Weddell seal, wandering Adelie penguin, stark white landscapes, the Transantarctic Mountains and lots of scientists in action. All of that and more can be found on this micro-blog created by NIU Board of Trustees Professor Reed Scherer in geology. Scherer just recently returned from a historic research expedition in the Antarctic. He was...
When one considers what the practice of philosophy involves, one thing that springs to mind is its employment of the Socratic method of instruction, so brilliantly illustrated in Plato’s dialogues. Many people have a rudimentary notion that this method is intended to enhance understanding through dialogue. A more complete description recognizes that the Socratic method...
Members of NIU’s engineering faculty are always looking for ways to increase their influence on the industry. By participating in research, working on projects and presenting those ideas in various places, these professors stay at the cutting edge of their respective fields. Federico Sciammarella, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, will give presentation on additive manufacturing...
NIU’s Technology Transfer Office will host a presentation on intellectual property from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, in LaTourette Hall 200. Alice O. Martin and Peter Zura from the Chicago office of Barnes & Thornburg will present on a variety of intellectual property topics: How does the March 16 U.S. Patent and Trademark...
Holly Jones, assistant professor in the NIU Department of Biological Sciences, will speak at noon Thursday, Feb. 21, at the next brown bag luncheon of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society. The event takes place in Wirtz 216. Bring a lunch; light snacks (cookies, chips) will be provided. All are welcome. Jones will talk on...
Monica W. Tracey, who teaches in the Instructional Technology program at Wayne State University, will discuss “Developing Designer Identity Through Reflection” at 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, in the Gabel Hall Learning Center North. Tracey’s teaching and research focus on theory and design-based research of interdisciplinary design, including design thinking and designer reflection and decision...
NIU’s David Henningsen remembers being intrigued in graduate school by a study that found men often overestimate the romantic interest of women. “That struck me as being really sad, because I really didn’t think women were all that interested in me to begin with,” Henningsen laughs. It also led him to the idea that there...
Sarah Stuebing spent five weeks last summer peering into the faces of monkeys from the Amazon, but it was all for science. “Understanding the use of facial expressions in our evolutionary ancestors can help further our knowledge of human facial expressions,” said Stuebing, 20, a junior biology major at NIU who hopes one day to...
