Category: Research
Registration for the fourth annual Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day is now open. This year’s event will take place Tuesday, April 23, as part of NIU’s two-week long celebration of excellence on campus. Any undergraduate student currently enrolled at NIU who has participated in a faculty-mentored creative or research project is encouraged to showcase his or her...
Now that the space shuttles are museum pieces, what are NASA’s plans for future American spaceflight? NASA Solar System Ambassador Joel Knapper will reveal the current and future plans to get Americans back into space, exploring the universe at NIU’s next STEM Café, “The Future for American Manned Spaceflight,” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday,...
In conjunction with its “Vice + Virtue” exhibition, the Northern Illinois University Art Museum has announced additional programming. This exhibition is currently on display in all four galleries of the NIU Art Museum, and will run through Saturday, Feb. 23, with a public reception scheduled from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24. Supplementary programming...
by Vladimir Shiltsev, director of the Accelerator Physics Center at Fermilab Right before Christmas, the editors of Physical Review Special Topics Accelerators and Beams announced their annual list of outstanding PRSTAB articles from 2011. The list is based on the number of citations articles received in 2012 and the opinions of the two dozen internationally...
Leila Porter, an NIU professor of anthropology, is up to some serious monkey business. She spent last summer in a Bolivian rain forest, tracking and catching some very peculiar primates known as saddle-back tamarins, before releasing them back into the wild. The squirrel-sized monkeys, from the family Callitrichidae, are closely related to the more well-known...
The Course Transformation Project (CTP) is a Vision 2020 initiative to enhance student attainment of NIU baccalaureate student learning outcomes and to increase student opportunities for experiential learning through academic enrichment. Faculty interested in finding ways to make large introductory classes more interactive and engaging are invited to attend one of two CTP informational sessions...
Undergraduate Special Opportunities in Artistry and Research (USOAR) is now accepting proposals from current undergraduates who are interested in performing an independent artistry or research project in 2013. Share your idea for a research or artistry project with a faculty member. Once the faculty member has approved your idea, complete a proposal and submit it to ugresearch@niu.edu. Please...
2012 was a busy year on campus. NIU Today spent most of December counting down the top 25 stories of 2012, topped by the Huskie football team’s historic bid to the Discover Orange Bowl. The list also included the October announcement from NIU President John Peters that he plans to step aside in June. We...
Top 20 Christmas titles most often anthologized (With number of occurrences) 1. “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement C. Moore (31) 2. “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens (28) 3. “The Fir-Tree” by Hans Christian Andersen (24) 4. Excerpts from “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame (18) “Is There a Santa Claus?”...
Strangely enough, Michael Jackson was an influential force in leading Amy Gahala to her career path in hydrology. Gahala, a graduate of the Department of Geology and Environmental Studies, is currently a hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey. “I grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, and it all started with Michael Jackson’s ‘Earth Song.’...
Mary Quinlan, a professor of art history in the NIU School of Art, has been awarded a full-year fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Quinlan’s fellowship will support the research and writing of a book on Leon Battista Alberti’s 1435-1436 “De pictura” (“On Painting”), and its impact on Renaissance art. Her project is...
For someone who isn’t fond of cold weather, Brian Guthrie sure seems excited about the prospect of working in one of the coldest, driest and most remote environments on the planet. A senior geology major at Northern Illinois University, Guthrie definitely has an adventurous side. He sports a Mohawk, zips to classes via skateboard and...
