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The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), Scotland’s National Academy, has named 62 new Fellows, including NIU physics professor Swapan Chattopadhyay. Chattopadhyay was one of only four newly named Corresponding Fellows, a title reserved for those “who have attained high international standing in any subject within the Society’s disciplinary domains and are not normally resident in the U.K.”...
When reflecting on his life, Gil Ankenbauer (B.S. ’73, M.S. ’75) identifies his time at NIU as transformational in more ways than one. NIU is where he studied under Dr. Samuel S. Goldich and developed his passion for geology. It’s where he made and deepened friendships that would follow him through his long and successful...
It’s a scholarship opportunity that almost sounds too good to be true, but this is the real deal for high achieving, low-income NIU students who will be juniors this coming fall and are majoring in one of six STEM fields within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. NIU is encouraging those students to apply...
NIU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is “Turning Fellows into Faculty,” with a third annual conference drawing at least 56 doctoral students of color to campus this weekend. The Preparing Future Faculty Conference will offer the recipients of the state’s Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Fellowship (DFI) information about the professoriate as a...
While most people are sleeping, Cora Dyslin, ’17, is working in the dark in the middle of the night with mice at San Diego Zoo Global. This isn’t your average mouse, but rather the Pacific pocket mouse, an endangered species native to California. The mouse, believed to be extinct in the 1980s, was rediscovered in...
Register now for “Treinta y tres,” an interdisciplinary conference on Friday, Nov. 2, that will feature of research of three NIU faculty members. According to Christina Abreu, director of the Center for Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, the conference name – Treinta y tres – calls attention to, the diversity of experiences and...
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” the next NIU STEM Café will bring together experts in a variety of fields for a lively discussion about dead bodies and body parts. Hear how scientific quests for knowledge led to grave robbing and even murder right here in DeKalb County in the 19th century....
After working in public relations for three decades telling other people’s stories, NIU alumna Rita Dragonette is telling her own and will mark the occasion with a series of events at her alma mater. Dragonette chronicles her own experiences as a college student during the Vietnam War era in her first book, titled “The Fourteenth...
The list, as always, is impressive. A visual artist who combines traditional and digital techniques. A chemist from Moscow with interest in the promise of functional organic materials to replace traditionally used materials with cheaper and better-performing new ones. A veteran teacher-educator who plans to make NIU into the best teacher-training program in the country....
For the second year in a row, NIU’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has been recognized by the national professional organization CSHEMA (Campus Safety, Health and Environmental Management Association). The 2017 award recognized the department and the Office of Research Compliance, Integrity and Safety for developing a laboratory safety course. This year’s award honored chemistry...
Crime scene investigators might someday get help from technology being developed by a Northern Illinois University professor and initially tested on campus by his student researchers. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has awarded a grant of more than $628,000 over two years to NIU Chemistry and Biochemistry professor Oliver Hofstetter to support his efforts...
The NIU Chemistry Club invites the public to its spring 2018 Chemistry Demo Night at 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 30, in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium of the Holmes Student Center. The theme will be “Chem-Olympics,” in honor of the recent Winter Olympics, and the free event will feature chemistry with colorful reactions and effects. Doors...