Officials with Crane Composites, the world’s leading provider of reinforced composite materials for the building and transportation markets, visited NIU on Thursday, April 5, to meet some of the students who have benefited from Crane scholarships. Crane Composites has offered 60 scholarships
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James E. Thompson (pictured on left), a longtime supporter of NIU, has renewed the James E. Thompson Professorship in Marketing for three more academic years. Thompson, a 1967 marketing alumnus, who served as executive vice president and managing director of the Leo
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Associate Professor Mahesh Subramony is all business when it comes to student engagement. That’s why his colleagues from the College of Business’ Department of Management nominated him to be recognized as an engaged learning exemplar for his outstanding commitment to engaged learning, teaching and
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NIU is pleased to announce a major gift from longtime supporters Dennis (’77, B.S., management) and Stacey Barsema to establish the Barsema Professorship in Social Entrepreneurship. The professorship, created by the Barsemas, will assist the NIU Department of Management to recruit and
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NIU alumnus Justin Whiting is helping to shape the future of additive manufacturing, working for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop and evaluate measurement science in this new and booming field. In August, Whiting presented at a national
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NIU will confer an honorary doctorate degree this fall to Vullnet Ameti, a man who demonstrated his belief in education as a human right by helping to establish the only Albanian university in Macedonia. The rector of the University of Tetovo (UT)
Read moreAssistant Professor Brian McCormick, Department of Management, and his co-authors recently received the 2017 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. Their article, “My family made me do it: A cross-domain, self-regulatory perspective on antecedents to abusive supervision,” was published in
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Leaders in Ethics and Academic Discipline (LEAD) and Jobs PLUS have agreed to a partnership that will feature the first peer-to-peer Jobs PLUS event and culminate in the 2018 NIU Ethics Case Competition. On Thursday, Oct. 5, students in LEAD will facilitate
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NIU’s Department of Accountancy is pleased to announce the launch of a new Master of Accountancy (M.A.C.) program geared toward professionals with an undergraduate degree in a field other than accounting. The convenient Naperville location and evening course offerings allow students to
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Michael Roper (’86), will be the featured boss on an episode of CBS’s hit series Undercover Boss! The episode will air on Friday, April 28, at 8 p.m. EST. Recipient of a degree in business administration, Michael Roper is president and CEO
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Northern Illinois University is pleased to announce the establishment of its first endowed fellowship in its College of Business. Named the David and Joanne Weick Endowed Faculty Research Fellowship, this $250,000 endowment will provide annual support to faculty who plan to execute
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The Department of Accountancy in the NIU College of Business has been designated as a certified public accountant (CPA) exam field test location by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). Those invited to sit for the field test exam free of charge
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