Tag: Graduate School
The Graduate School invites faculty, staff and students to join in celebrating the outstanding accomplishments of NIU’s graduate students. A reception will be held at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23, in the Altgeld Hall Auditorium. Presentation of awards will begin at 3:30 p.m. For more information, call 815-753-9403 or email dhughes@niu.edu. Recipients of the following 2018-19 awards...
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....
More than two decades after earning their Round Lake High School diplomas together, NIU’s director of Campus Child Care Kristin Schulz and her longtime friend Mike Lannon can call themselves fellow graduates again. Both graduated Friday, May 11, with master’s degrees from Northern Illinois University. Neither of the 1996 Round Lake High School graduates knew...
She might tell you otherwise, but recognition for Dana Hughes was long overdue. Hughes, administrative assistant in the Graduate School, recently received the 2018 Patricia S. Siebrasse Administrative Professionals Award for Excellence. The award goes to someone who demonstrates continued commitment and operational efficiency within their organization and provides meaningful contributions to NIU. “I was...
The Graduate School invites faculty, staff and students to join in celebrating NIUs graduate students at the Outstanding Graduate Student Recognition reception held in their honor on Tuesday, April 24, at 3 p.m. in Altgeld Hall Auditorium. Below are the honorees and the awards they will be given: Outstanding Graduate Student Awards Afrimadona – Political...
Registration is now open for 28 Graduate Career and Professional Development workshops scheduled for the fall semester. Information on the events and a link for online registration can be found at go.niu.edu/gradworkshops. Advanced registration is required. Workshops are free and open to all NIU graduate students. They also reflect a partnership with five different units...
Northern Illinois University’s Graduate Percussion Quartet (NIUGPQ) is currently performing at the International Festival of Percussion Ensembles in San Jose, Costa Rica, Monday – Friday, June 19 – 23. The performance was made possible by an invitation from NIU Professor Emeritus Robert Chappell. Under Chappell’s direction, the NIU Percussion Ensemble first performed at the festival...
NIU’s Cliff Alexis is retiring, and he’s going out on a high note. The longtime co-director of the world-renowned NIU Steelband – and master of the art of building steel drums – will be feted during a concert in his honor beginning at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 30, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. The...
The Aztec Triple Alliance established an empire that controlled the Valley of Mexico and conquered many other regions from the 14th century to Spanish contact. Although they are popularly known for warfare and militarism, the Aztec Empire was a strong economic empire, facilitating the movement of goods across vast distances without beasts of burden or...
Bradley Bond, dean of the Graduate School and associate vice president for Graduate Studies at NIU, has issued the annual call for nominations for honorary doctoral degrees to be awarded from Northern Illinois University. Awarding an honorary degree is an opportunity for NIU to recognize someone especially outstanding in a field of interest to the...
Recent graduates and prospective students interested in earning postgraduate degrees have an opportunity to improve scores on graduate school entrance exams with test preparation courses offered on campus. NIU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences External Programming is offering in-person GRE and LSAT test preparation courses in fall 2016. Both test preparation courses will be...
NIU will award an honorary doctoral degree Friday, May 13, to interfaith activist Eboo Patel, president of the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core. Patel will earn his honorary doctorate during the NIU Graduate School commencement ceremony scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the NIU Convocation Center. A Rhodes Scholar who earned a doctorate in the sociology of...
