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NIU will host a Sustainable Food Systems Innovation Challenge event for college students age 18 and older on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 11 and 12, with a focus on food justice. The 24-hour challenge pushes teams of students to use their multidisciplinary skills to create solutions to pressing worldwide problems related to sustainable food systems. Students of...
Dave Grewell has a list of things he wants to work on as the new dean of the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology, but his personal job description is quite simple: Pay it forward. “I have been lucky everywhere I have been. I am where I am today because of luck and the...
Lindsay Harris Children who are blind or visually impaired can neither see words in print nor the objects that the words refer to, such as a tree or a car or a cloud. So how does this impact their word learning and vocabulary development, all of which begins as auditory only? Lindsay Harris wants to...
The Northern Illinois University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will welcome best-selling author and educator, Eddie Glaude Jr. to the Rebuilding Democracy Lecture Series at 7 p.m. CST Nov. 8 in Altgeld Auditorium. The program is free and open to the public. The event will feature a discussion between Glaude Jr. and Dean Robert...
Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian Greg Grandin will present “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America” during the Department of History’s annual Lincoln Lecture, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 in Altgeld Auditorium. The presentation, rescheduled from its original September date, is free and open...
We are supposed to have everything figured out when we get to college, right? Not the case! Change is inevitable in life and, when it comes to changing your major, it can be a change for the good. Such is the case for Abby Byer, a junior majoring in Business Administration with an emphasis in...
To kick off NIU’S Edible Campus initiative this past spring, NIU students and faculty planted nearly 100 garden beds across campus, plus a one-third acre market garden near Anderson Hall—and now they’re reaping a plentiful harvest. In this brief accompanying video, you can learn (and see) more about NIU’s expansive Edible Campus, a living laboratory...
Transitioning into her new role as director of the Violence Prevention Program within NIU’s Division of Academic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Junelle M. Bennett, Ed.D., has been intentional and on track to shift the culture in higher education to be safer and more inclusive. Her commitment to education and students has driven her pursuit of...
The Illinois Nurses Foundation announced the 2023 40 under 40 Emerging Nurse Leaders Award winners which included NIU School of Nursing simulation laboratory coordinator Jessica Madrigal. The award was established in 2015 to highlight and celebrate young nurse leaders and celebrate those who are impacting health care and the nursing profession. “By earning this award...
It has been said that success is best when it is shared, and that is exactly what College of Business alumni, donors, faculty and staff will do on Oct. 20 when they gather to recognize and celebrate the 2023 College of Business Alumni Award recipients. Joan Bottarini — 2023 Distinguished Alumna Award, Accountancy, ’93 Zoya...
Congratulations to Jason Rhode, associate vice provost for Teaching, Learning, and Digital Education at NIU on being named to the 2023 Class of Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Fellows! This honor recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of digital leadership, digital education and online learning. Recognition as an OLC Fellow is one of high professional distinction...
NIU’s research, service and engagement enterprises are on a serious roll, as external funding in Fiscal Year 2023 surged. During that fiscal year, faculty and staff secured about 400 awards totaling $57 million in funding from outside sources, an increase of 34% over the previous year and a 60% increase since FY 2019. That FY23...
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