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Tag: Institute for the Study of the Environment Sustainability and Energy

Cultivating young scientists

August 28, 2019 Sarah Quinn Centerpiece, Community, Faculty & Staff, Research, Students

With NSF support, NIU faculty engage students from across the country in research NIU professors have been busy planting seeds in recent summers, and the crops seem to expand each year. But they’re not growing fruits and vegetables. Rather, professors from a

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Reed Scherer

Big ice, big science, tiny fossils

March 17, 2016 Mark McGowan Communiversity, Digital Signage, Events, Faculty & Staff, Global, Latest News, Liberal Arts and Sciences, On Campus, Research, Science and Technology

Reed Scherer’s doctoral research set out to test a radical hypothesis put forth in the 1970s that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet “collapsed” during the interglacial period that immediately predated the most recent Ice Age, and could again. Confirming past instability of

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The Road (from NIU) to Mandalay

November 24, 2015 Mark McGowan Faculty & Staff, Global, Health and Human Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences

…On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin’ fishes play, An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ’crost the Bay! – Rudyard Kipling “Road to Mandalay” (1892) In August, a cohort of NIU professors spent two weeks in Mandalay, Myanmar,

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NIU lighting lab

A bright outlook

October 19, 2015 Mark McGowan Campus Highlights, Engineering, Engineering and Engineering Technology, Faculty & Staff, Students

People are exposed daily to many different types of light. Although many are not consciously aware of the lights that surround them, the color and brightness of these lights affects them physiologically. Take a look around to consider the nearby sources of

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Photo of a 1950s-era house

Talk planned October 5 on fair housing, environmental justice

October 1, 2015 Mark McGowan Communiversity, Digital Signage, Events, Faculty & Staff, Liberal Arts and Sciences, On Campus, What's Going On

Paula Brkich of the HOPE Fair Housing Center will visit campus Monday, Oct. 5, to talk on “Fair Housing and Environmental Justice: Exploring the Intersection of Housing, Poverty, Activism, and Environmental Justice.” The talk, scheduled from 4 to 5 p.m. in the

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Hunger Action Month

Panel discussion planned Wednesday on hunger

September 28, 2015 Mark McGowan Communiversity, Digital Signage, Events, Faculty & Staff, Liberal Arts and Sciences, On Campus, What's Going On

As a part of Hunger Action Month, NIU will host a fast-paced discussion on the issue of hunger and how it presents itself locally, regionally and globally. Courtney Gallaher, a professor in the Department of Geography, will moderate the conversation.from 4 to

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STEM Café to serve ‘Breakfast with the Bison’ August 29

August 19, 2015 Gillian King-Cargile Communiversity, Digital Signage, Engagement, Events, Latest News

Most of the Midwestern tall grass prairie vanished in the 19th century with the rise of the steel plow, but researchers say that prairie restoration is essential for maintaining native plant and animal habitats, improving water and soil quality and reducing erosion.

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