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NIU Ph.D. student Cheryl Manning was named as a 2022 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the most distinguished honors within the scientific community. Manning was specifically honored for her “outstanding, visionary, and sustained leadership in geoscience education and bringing the work of scientists and educators together to...
Jack Baker, ’12, has been working as a stand-up comedian for over a dozen years, and thinks most of his comedic brethren are not loud, brash class clowns. “I feel like there’s this misconception about comedians, that we’re always the class clown, and I feel like that’s almost never the case,” he said. “Comedians are...
The NIU Department of Mathematical Sciences will host a regional mathematics competition from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, at DuSable Hall and the Carl Sandburg Auditorium at the Holmes Student Center. Close to 400 students from 18 high schools will participate in the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ICTM) Regional High School Mathematics Contest. Individual...
Two NIU researchers are members of a team of 34 scientists honored with the 2022 Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research for their new method of quickly identifying how the virus evolves. The Gordon Bell Special Prize recognized outstanding research achievement toward the understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic through the use...
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences honored 10 alumni, faculty and staff Oct. 28 during their annual event at Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center. The CLAS Distinguished Awards program honors individuals who have achieved prominence in their professional fields or who have made major contributions to the college, its mission and its reputation for excellence. The 2022 honorees...
The Board of Trustees approved the merger of the departments of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences and Geology and Environmental Geosciences during their Dec. 7 meeting. The new unit, Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, brings together 19 faculty, 50 graduate students, nearly 115 undergraduate students and numerous researchers and technical staff between the two departments....
The Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL), a project of the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA) that began with a federal grant in 2005, is a virtual Southeast Asia treasure trove hosted by NIU Libraries. A digital archive of textual, still image, sound and video resources, SEADL is a free resource for anyone...
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences honored 12 alumni, faculty and staff Oct. 22 during their annual event at Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center. The CLAS Distinguished Awards program honors individuals who have achieved prominence in their professional fields or who have made major contributions to the college, its mission and its reputation for...
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences proudly welcome Rep. Sean Casten (IL-6) as the next guest in their Rebuilding Democracy Lecture Series at 7 p.m. CST Oct. 18. The hour-long event, conducted on Zoom, will feature Rep. Casten alongside NIU faculty conducting research in the area of climate change and climate policy. Professors Walker...
When NIU Biology Professor Holly Jones was awarded a $703,000 National Science Foundation Grant to study prairie restoration on a half-acre site north of the NIU Convocation Center, she and her colleague Melissa Lenczewski (a professor of geology) immediately saw an opportunity for collaboration. “We immediately asked, ‘Has anybody ever looked at the groundwater when...
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences proudly welcomes Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL 16) as the next guest in their Rebuilding Democracy Lecture Series at 6 p.m. CT March 30. The 45-minute event, conducted on Zoom, will feature Congressman Kinzinger discussing a variety of topics such as rebuilding democracy, energy, agriculture and foreign affairs with...
Report includes economic impact of the nonprofit sector, impact of COVID-19 DeKalb County has a robust nonprofit sector employing seven percent of the total workforce. Yet, COVID-19 has had a noticeable financial impact with nearly 82 percent saying they have had to cancel fundraising events due to the pandemic. A new study explores nonprofit organizations...
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