Category: Research
J. Britt Holbrook, assistant director of the Center for Study of Interdisciplinarity at North Texas University, will visit campus Friday, Dec. 7, as a guest of the PI Academy. Holbrook will speak from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on “Taking a Proactionary Approach to Grant-Writing, Peer Review and Broader Impacts.” The talk will take place in...
The Department of Sociology, in conjunction with the Sociology Student Advisory Committee and the NIU Criminal Justice Club, kicks off the 10th annual Sociology Week event tonight. Sociology Week is being held in rooms 505 and 506 or the Holmes Student Center from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, through Thursday, Nov. 15. The...
Alfred F. Young, a professor emeritus in NIU’s Department of History and pioneer in the field of early American history, died Nov. 6, in Durham, N.C., according to a published obituary. He was 87. Young was a past recipient of the award for distinguished service in the historical profession from the Organization of American Historians....
The NIU Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability & Energy (ESE) is conducting an on-campus search for a new director. ESE is an interdisciplinary unit with the goal to conduct foundational research and education on pressing environmental and energy-related issues. Faculty from the colleges of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Engineering & Engineering Technology...
Andreas Glatz, who recently joined the NIU Department of Physics through a joint appointment with Argonne National Laboratory, has won a $4 million grant over the next five years to develop and apply novel methods of optimizing superconductors for power distribution and other energy applications. Glatz is leading a team that includes seven other scientists...
Good news for people who want to keep the environment clean, but don’t have time to put on hip waders and restore wetlands and prairies: Materials scientists are creating cleaner, greener products that can help you help the planet. Join NIU STEM Outreach at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, when its popular STEM Café series...
The NIU Department of Geography invites the university community Wednesday, Nov. 14, to GIS Night. The event is part of global GIS Day activities, where thousands of users of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) showcase real-world applications of this exciting technology to schools, businesses and the general public. Visitors to Room 115 of Davis Hall from...
NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology is getting a cutting-edge robotics and mechatronics lab with the help of corporate sponsor OMRON Global. OMRON Global is an international company that focuses on a wide variety of manufacturing automation products, producing motors, sensors, safety equipment and more. The company has proven quite successful, and leaders have...
As morning dawned Saturday, Oct. 20, on the NIU Convocation Center, thousands of spectators eagerly waited to see what the third annual STEMfest would have in store. Visitors from all over Illinois and Indiana traveled to DeKalb to witness a unique experience of science, technology, engineering and mathematics under one roof. STEMfest continues to grow...
The NIU Department of Geography is hosting the annual meeting of the West Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers. This year’s meeting will be held jointly with the East Lakes Division. The meeting begins with an evening reception on Thursday, Oct. 25, and concludes with afternoon field trips on Saturday, Oct. 27. “Based...
Just in time for the height of election season, NIU History Professor Beatrix Hoffman has a new book out that takes a fresh and intriguing look at the history of health care rights in the United States. Hoffman will deliver a talk on the book – titled “Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in...
With Election Day less than a month away, television is filled with talking heads spreading the conventional wisdom of what a Republican or Democrat president might mean for the economy. But when it comes to the relationship between presidential politics and the behavior of the financial markets, a group of business researchers says that conventional...