As an inspiring professor, prolific author, ardent researcher, brilliant scholar and generous philanthropist, Carla Montgomery (Sept. 26, 1951 – Feb. 1, 2021) made a profound and lasting impact at Northern Illinois University and beyond. On Tuesday, Nov. 22, her friends, family, colleagues and students will gather to celebrate Dr. Montgomery’s life and the indelible positive difference...
As the university observed Hispanic Heritage Month the NIU College of Business increased its efforts to ensure that Latino students feel welcomed and at home. Officially launched this fall, the Hispanic Business Student Association (HBSA) was created to support Latino students and ensure that they graduate better prepared to face a future in the business...
NIU alumna Paulette Hasier, chief of the Maps and Geography Division at the Library of Congress, will give a talk on the importance of geographical information at Founders Memorial Library at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the first-floor Founders Gallery. The talk will kick off the Women in STEM Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the...
Tim Michaelis, assistant professor of entrepreneurship in NIU’s College of Business, founded and recently co-hosted the new Health in Entrepreneurship Conference in Chicago. Aimed at accelerating research into issues surrounding health and entrepreneurship, the event was held over Oct 7-8 at MATTER Chicago, an incubator for health-care startups, and at DePaul University. NIU, DePaul and...
‘A model of confidence’ Vilaya “Ling” Sirivong set her sights on NIU at the age of 16. She knew then she wanted to be the first in her family not only to go to college, but to study abroad. Thousands of miles away in her homeland of Laos, she applied for the university’s Southeast Asia...
Natalia Ferrera, Andrea Joyce, Stephanie Perez and Ana Demaria After two weeks of visiting schools in DeKalb, Rochelle and the Chicago suburbs, 20 teachers from Uruguay made their way to Rockford. Their destination – Lincoln Middle School, opened in 1927 and located adjacent to the city’s historic Midtown District – provided their first glimpse of...
This past spring, Dr. Levi Harrison, an orthopedic surgeon known as “the esports doctor,” announced that he would award a one-thousand-dollar scholarship to one NIU student for the 2022-23 school year. However, the best-laid plans can go awry, and after the scholarship committee had narrowed down the field, Dr. Harrison found himself faced with two...
Kayce Fuentes makes it four. A second-year M.S.Ed. student in the NIU Department of Counseling and Higher Education, Fuentes is the 2022 recipient of the NASPA Region IV-E Graduate Student Rising Star (Illinois) Award and the fourth consecutive Huskie chosen for the annual honor. Her selection acknowledges her demonstrated excellence in the classroom as well...
As the daughter of two faculty members (Art and Sue Doederlein, both of whom taught in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences), Cathy Doederlein likes to joke that she was born on campus, which isn’t far from the truth. “I grew up at NIU. I consider it home, and I want it to feel...
NIU Chemistry Professor Tao Li has been awarded two new National Science Foundation (NSF) grants totaling $565,000 for energy-related research projects. The work also promises to help hone research skills among as many as eight NIU graduate and undergraduate students. The first project aims to develop an improved, cost effective and environmentally sound way to...
It’s been only a few months since Rachel Gordon moved to DeKalb from Louisiana and joined the College of Health and Human Sciences (CHHS) leadership team. For the new Associate Dean for Research and Administration (ADRA), it’s a coming home of sorts. “Since I’d lived in Chicago and the northwest suburbs for three decades, I’d...
The University Honors Program (UHP) is excited to announce the 2023-2024 Honors Faculty Fellowship call for proposals, which is centered upon the theme of creation and destruction. Faculty selected to teach Honors seminars are recognized as Honors Faculty Fellows during the year in which they teach their Honors seminar. The Honors Faculty Fellowship program began in the...
