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Communiversity Gardens
It is said that gardens are the first sign of commitment to a community, and that to plant a garden is to plant a hope. The NIU Communiversity Gardens couldn’t hold more truth to these expressions. Since the garden’s ground breaking in 2014, students, faculty, staff and community members have successfully worked together to produce...
“Education should be a right, not a privilege.” Members of NIU’s Northern Lights Ambassadors and Zeta Sigma Chi agree with this statement – and, to demonstrate their commitment, are collecting donations and raising money for an all-girl boarding school in Kenya. A pair of NIU professors – Teresa Wasonga (College of Education) and her husband,...
NIU’s seventh annual Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day will take place from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. Hundreds of NIU students – including Robin Grooms, Jenée Carlson, Jessica Fliginger and Earle Isibue – will present their faculty-mentored work through the Office of...
Earle Isibue
Meet Earle Isibue, the final student spotlighted in advance of Undergraduate Research & Artistry Day (URAD). Isibue is a junior geography major who is involved with Research Rookies and the NIU Soil Judging Team. Along with Robin Grooms, Jenée Carlson, Jessica Fliginger and many others, he will present his work Tuesday, April 19, at URAD....
Jenée Carlson
NIU freshman Jenée Carlson has been honored among the 2016 class of Newman Civic Fellows. Carlson, who is a business major and NIU Research Rookie, is making an immediate and powerful impact on campus thank to her passion to improve the food security in her hometown and university community. “I chose to major in business...
Jessica Fliginger
Meet Jessica Fliginger, a senior Huskie Service Scholar majoring in environmental studies. Fliginger will present Tuesday, April 19, at the Community Engagement Showcase (CES) and the Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day (URAD). Along with Huskie Service Scholars, Fliginger has been a recipient of the Student Engagement Fund and is conducting research in the Jones Lab,...
Undergraduate Research & Artistry Day (URAD) takes place Tuesday, April 19, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. Hundreds of NIU students will present their research. For more information, email URAD@niu.edu. Meet Robin Grooms, a freshman environmental studies major with a policy emphasis. Grooms is involved in Research Rookies, the Honors Program,...
NIU’s Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning will continue its Student Engagement Colloquia Brown Bag series at noon Friday, March 25, when Shanay Murdock from anthropology and Suzanne Serrano from history will present in Altgeld Hall 125. The series showcases research, artistry and community engagement projects completed by students who have received funding through...
Photo of a brown bag lunch and an apple
NIU’s Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning will continue its Student Engagement Colloquia Brown Bag series at noon Friday, March 11, when Rachel Jacob from the departments of History and Political Science will present in Altgeld Hall 125. The series showcases research, artistry and community engagement projects completed by students who have received funding...
NIU student Rebekah Ernat visited Madagascar.
The Student Engagement Fund is currently accepting funding applications for Fall 2016 activities through Tuesday, March 15. The Student Engagement Fund is a collaborative effort by the Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning (OSEEL) and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to provide stipends for students working on faculty-mentored research projects and to...
Photo of a brown bag lunch and an apple
The Office of Student Engagement & Experiential Learning continues to host a brown bag lecture series to showcase research, artistry and community engagement projects completed by students who have received funding through the Student Engagement Fund and Undergraduate Special Opportunities in Research & Artistry. Physics major Waturu Hashimoto and biological sciences major Maria Weston will...
Dennis Barsema and Jenée Carlson
For some, the recent holiday season invokes memories of food overflowing on dining room tables. But for many on college campuses across the country, an abundance of food is far from the reality. Several national media outlets – the Atlantic, the New York Times and Rolling Stone, among others – recently carried stories about hidden...
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