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Arielle Rogers, an NIU Ph.D. degree candidate in social and industrial-organizational psychology, was recently selected as a recipient of two prestigious awards supporting her research on the impact of sleep quality for workers in fields related to customer service. The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology awarded Rogers with the Mary L. Tenopyr Graduate Student...

NIU’s Anna Quider will play a leading role this year in advocating for federal research funding to the nation’s universities. Quider, NIU’s director of federal relations, recently was elected president of the board of directors for the Science Coalition, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization representing more than 50 of the nation’s leading public and private...

Three members of the NIU Division of Research and Innovation Partnerships—Dara Little, Anna Quider and Kellie Dyslin—have recently been named to key leadership positions in national and international organizations supporting research and higher education. “These are impressive achievements that speak to the professionalism of the staff in Research and Innovation Partnerships,” said Jerry Blazey, the...

Erin Heath, associate director of government relations for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), will visit campus next month to talk about federal funding for scientific research. Her presentation, which is part of NIU’s PI Academy Professional Development series, will be held from 3-5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 6, in room 200 of...

Daniel Boyden, an NIU student in physics, has won a prestigious graduate student research award from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. The highly competitive award is given to students who have the potential to make important contributions to the mission of the DOE Office of Science. This is the second consecutive year...

The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) will present Christine D. Worobec, Board of Trustees and distinguished research professor emerita at Northern Illinois University, with the Distinguished Contributions Award at its annual conference Nov. 9-12, in Chicago, IL. The Distinguished Contributions Award is ASEEES’ highest honor, recognizing individuals with an exemplary record...

A robotic hand developed by a team of NIU engineering students has the potential to change the lives of amputees – at about one percent of the cost of similar prosthetics currently on the market. The team of three students set out in summer 2016 to develop a functional, low-cost prosthetic hand that could benefit...

The U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation have appointed Michael Syphers, a senior research professor of physics at NIU, to serve as a member of the national High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP). HEPAP, which meets three times a year, has advised the federal government on the national program in experimental and...

Anna Quider, NIU’s director of federal relations, is taking on two new service posts that will help expand the university’s profile as a leading research institution. Quider has been elected vice president of The Science Coalition, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization of more than 60 of the nation’s leading public and private research universities. She...

It’s no secret that stressful life events can exert any number of changes on the human body. Most noticeable among these is premature graying of scalp hair—as even a cursory examination of “before-term” and “after-term” photos of past U.S. presidents will attest. Now, a new study authored by NIU alumnus Camille King and NIU professor...

While growing up in a rural area of western Illinois outside small-town Geneseo, Blake Burghgrave always had an intense interest in how things worked. It’s safe to say that interest has taken him far. First, to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a degree in engineering physics. Then on to Northern Illinois...

Far too many students walk onto college campuses unprepared for what it takes to earn degrees. Within six years, about half of those who enroll with high hopes will have failed to graduate and bid farewell to their dreams, some for financial reasons and many others simply because they weren’t ready. It’s not helping them....