Please join the Presidential Commission on Race and Ethnicity (PCORE) as it celebrates its 2025 Diversity and Inclusion Summit. The event will be held on Wednesday, April 16th in the Holmes Student Center Regency room. It will begin with our keynote address by Katherine S. Cho, Ph.D. entitled: The Precarity and Pursuit of our own...
International Business Instructor Russell Page understands what it takes to motivate his students. In his MGMT 468 (Strategic Management in a Global Economy) classes, his passion for empowering students academically and professionally is contagious. With his guidance, business students learn what they are capable of while completing their final capstone projects. The Excellence in Undergraduate...
Congratulations to Jaclyn Crawford, Candice Hux and Kerith Woodyard, NIU’s 2025 Excellence in Online Teaching Award winners. Crawford is an instructor in the Department of Marketing, Hux is an associate professor in the Department of Accountancy, and Woodyard is an associate professor in the Department of Communication. Presented by the Center for Innovative Teaching and...
If Alastair Fletcher daydreams, it must be of novel ways to decode mathematical concepts for Huskies. His accomplishments and a cadre of student mentees attest to this endeavor. “Mathematics can be both intriguing and intimidating, so I always strive to demystify it, helping students appreciate its utility and beauty,” Fletcher said. “Witnessing their growth and success...
NIU is proud to award Mark Schuller, Presidential Research Professor in NIU’s Department of Anthropology, the 2025 Exemplary Faculty Mentoring Award. This award honors faculty mentors who exceed expectations, and the presentation of the award formally recognizes the critical value of faculty mentoring and its role in supporting faculty success at NIU. Incredibly supportive, kind...
The spin doctor: Physics Professor Roland Winkler named Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professor It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to call Physics Professor Roland Winkler a spin doctor of sorts. During a career spanning three decades—with most of it being at NIU—the German-born Winkler has produced theoretical work on some of the hottest...
Management Professor Mahesh Subramony is intrigued by humanity on the service frontlines. How do employees and customers treat each other? What are the consequences of these interactions for their well-being and the performance of service establishments? These and similar kinds of questions guide his research in a variety of contexts: college bookstores, temporary help services,...
A Heart of Service, A Hunger for Excellence: ISYE Professor Gary Chen receives NIU Presidential Teaching Professorship In early March, with a half-hour left in his Lean Manufacturing class, NIU Professor Gary Chen stopped speaking in mid-sentence. A group of people had unexpectedly strolled into the classroom, including College of Engineering and Engineering Technology Dean...
Some alumni and friends of NIU’s Physical Education Teacher Education program call Gail Koehling “the glue.” Yet Koehling, an instructor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education since 2009 and recipient of the university’s Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction Award for 2025, is something more than that. An exemplar. “Gail takes the student experience very...
Randy Caspersen masterfully blends art and technique in teaching media studies. To foster Huskies’ success, he similarly combines his care for students and attentiveness to quality. The associate professor of media studies in Northern Illinois University’s Department of Communication is recipient of the 2025 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. “What may make my approach unique...
James Cohen has his reasons for “living life to its fullest.” He traces those to the summer of his 18th year. He was between his freshman and sophomore years of college then, mourning the death of his father, who was only 51, and simultaneously confronting a sad statistic. Most men in his family die in...
Ralph Wheeler went from the first in his family on a college journey to the top of his class. An American Chemical Society Fellow, he is among the upper one percent of his field’s leading scholars. The computational chemistry professor at Northern Illinois University inspires Huskies, many from underserved populations, to rise as his distinguished...
