Thanks to the keen literary eye of her professor, a parody poem about Blackboard written just for fun by junior Kayla Bivin was recently featured in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a widely followed daily humor website. Bivin, a music major from Cary, had been studying a famous poem by Wallace Stevens in her Transformational Poetry course,...
History Professor Emeritus Andrea Smalley will deliver an upcoming talk on her new book focusing on the history of commercial hunting and wildlife consumerism and conservation in the United States. The book, coauthored with wildlife biologist Henry M. Reeves, is titled, “The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850-1920”...
The Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities (PCPD) serves as a university-wide advocate promoting awareness, educating the university community and assisting individuals on disability-related issues. Each year, the commission selects an outstanding student, faculty or staff member and community organization to be honored for their efforts in service, leadership and advocacy to persons with disabilities....
Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (Illinois District 14) visited NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) on Monday, April 25 to learn about its cleanroom laboratory, also called Microelectronics Research and Development Laboratory (MRDL). University officials say the cleanroom lab offers many benefits to the northern Illinois region in the form of education, workforce training and...
Chemistry Professor Tao Xu has been recognized with a rare National Science Foundation Special Creativity award, believed to be the first ever for an NIU researcher. The special award of NSF’s Division for Materials Research is designed to recognize its most creative investigators who are attacking research problems at the forefront of their fields. As...
Orientation and First Year Programs will welcome incoming Huskies and their families in person this summer and fall with an innovative and exciting preview of student life at NIU. For new first-year and transfer students, Orientation is the key to a successful journey at NIU. “Orientation is the first time many students come to campus...
The key to monitoring the NIU community for early signs of a new COVID-19 outbreak can be found in the humble sewage pipes that run beneath campus. For the past 18 months, NIU has been developing a wastewater testing program that allows the university to create an unbiased snapshot of the SARS-CoV-2 viral load within...
Four members of NIU’s Supportive Professional Staff (SPS) are winners of the 2022 Presidential Awards for Excellence. Each is an ambassador for the university in their own unique way, but all work to innovatively and professionally ensure the success of their departments, building programs and the campus as a whole. These SPS Presidential Award recipients play...
‘Truly passionate about student success’ Graduate students can expect a few things when they take Professor Natalie Churyk’s accounting research course. They will tackle real-world issues. They will interact with business professionals. And they will have a mentor in Professor Churyk. The William Doyle Endowed Professor of Accountancy, Churyk has been named a 2022 Outstanding...
As the new dean of the Graduate School and associate vice president for International Affairs, Kerry Wilks brings to campus a world of experience as a university educator, administrator, global recruiter and volunteer. But it’s the passion for her work that’s made her successful and stands out most. As a teenager, Wilks fell in love...
Northern Illinois University’s most diverse council in Fraternity and Sorority Life is taking on a new name reflective of their Greek-letter chapters’ historic commitment to cultural identity and belonging. In a nearly unanimous vote earlier this term, the executive leadership of the United Greek Council rolled out a rebranding as the Multicultural Greek Council in...
Established in 2021 by the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, the Excellence in Online Teaching Award recognizes faculty who excel in online teaching by utilizing best practices for online course delivery. The recipients of this year’s Excellence in Online Teaching Awards will be recognized on Thursday, April 21 during a reception in the Altgeld...
