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It’s difficult to determine who gets more out of NIU’s annual summer speech camp — the high school students who enroll or the counselors who coach them. About 50 students from Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin participated in last week’s camp, where they developed speech-giving, debating or theatrical skills. For the 16 counselors, the camp was an...
Albert Walker
Albert Walker, who joined the NIU Journalism Department in January of 1968 and created its public relations sequence, died Wednesday, June 22, in DeKalb. He was 91. Walker also founded and advised the PRSSA chapter from the late 1960s until his retirement in 1990. He later returned to teach part-time from 1995 to 1998. He held degrees from Case...
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Northern Illinois juniors Kyle Glancy, Tony Manville and Troy White were named to the 2011 Academic All-Mid-American Conference Baseball Team, the league announced Monday. The triumvirate’s scholarly accomplishment marks the first time the program has received the honor since 2007, when MAC hit king Scott Simon (2003-07) was the lone Huskie recognized. Prior to the...
NIU alum Jeff Yordon (center) at NASDAQ. Photo from www.nasdaq.com.
NIU alum Jeff Yordon, CEO of Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (SGNT) and benefactor of NIU’s Jeffrey and Kimberly Yordon Center, rang the closing bell Monday, June 6, at NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square. Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which Yordon founded in 2006, is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing, sourcing and marketing pharmaceutical products, with...
Fred Markowitz
A new study led by an NIU sociologist shows that while family members often provide critical support, they also can sometimes be the source of stigmatizing attitudes that impede the recovery of mentally ill relatives. “Negative attitudes of family members have the potential to affect the ways that mentally ill persons view themselves, adversely influencing...
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Applications are still being accepted to NIU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences External Programming 2011 Academic Summer Camps. 2011 Academic Residential Camps Creative Writing Camp, June 19 to 24, for students entering grades 9, 10, 11 or 12. STEM Career Investigations Camp, June 19 to 24, for students entering grades 9, 10, 11 or 12. Film...
A student catches sunlight with a scintillator.
Do you know what a scintillator is? Can you use scintillate in a sentence? Thanks to scientists and technologists at NIU, 70 students from Libertyville’s AP physics classes can. The students visited NIU’s Department of Physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Mechanical Engineering labs in the College of Engineering and Engineering...
Among the 1966-67 Department of History faculty were (left to right) Jim Connors, Roland Ely, Reese Jenkins, Jerry Barrier and Stephen Foster.
Forty-five years ago this year, NIU’s Department of History conferred its first doctoral degree. Professor Anne Hanley, director of graduate studies, has led an effort by the department to mark the special occasion. The department has invited its Ph.D. alumni to campus for events to commemorate the anniversary, including attending the Graduate School commencement ceremony at...
James Schmidt
NIU history professor James D. Schmidt has received the 2011 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award for his latest book, “Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor.” Schmidt received the prestigious annual award from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. “This is really an honor,” Schmidt said. “This award means...
Michael Konen, Michael Morris, Brendon Swedlow and Jeanne Jakubowski
Teachers cannot fake or hide genuine enthusiasm for knowledge. They cannot keep it to themselves, or can they control when they spark it in their students. This month, NIU honors three of its teachers – Michael Konen, Michael Morris and Brendon Swedlow – for passing their zeal onto their undergraduate students. The trio is this...
Many researchers find a way to combine their passion for science with love for their hobbies, but few get the chance as a 17-year-old college freshman. Count Sarah Stuebing among the fortunate. Thanks to NIU’s Research Rookies program, Stuebing spent her first year in college conducting an independent research project that tested her hypothesis that...
Dhiman Chakraborty and Rich King
One is shedding light on the subatomic bits of matter that are the building blocks of nature, while the other is contributing to the understanding and conservation of reptiles and amphibians.   Despite such disparate fields of research, physicist Dhiman Chakraborty and biologist Richard King, the newly named 2011 Presidential Research Professors at Northern Illinois...
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