Ayleen Ramos, a junior majoring in Communicative Disorders in the School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders, was awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the Illinois Latino Council on Higher Education (ILACHE). The scholarship is awarded to five Latino/a/x students in Illinois who
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Hometown: Chicago, IL Year: Expected graduation: May 2023 Major: Health sciences What did you want to be when you were growing up? Are you pursuing that as a major, or have you taken another path? As a child, my answer to this question changed
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Hometown: Woodstock, IL Year: Expected graduation: 2022 Major: Health sciences Transfer from: Harper College What did you want to be when you were growing up? Are you pursuing that as a major, or have you taken another path? As an adolescent, I considered becoming a
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Jonas Arvin Sales is a nursing major from Rolling Meadows, IL Hometown: Rolling Meadows, IL Year: Expected graduation: 2024 Major: Nursing What did you want to be when you were growing up? Are you pursuing that as a major, or have you taken another path?
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Hometown: Pingree Grove, IL Year: Anticipated graduation year: 2022 Major: Human development and family sciences Transfer from: Elgin Community College What scholarships did you receive and why did you receive them? How has the financial support impacted your experience at NIU? I have a graduate assistant tuition
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Anitha Saravanan, Assistant Professor in Nursing What year did you start working at NIU? 2020 Where is your hometown? and where do you live now? I was born and raised in Chennai, India, and I live in Carol Stream, Illinois. Where did you
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The Illinois Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics named Julie Patterson, assistant professor of Nutrition and Dietetics in the School of Health Studies, as its 2022 Outstanding Dietitian of the Year award winner. Each state selects a recipient for the annual award which recognizes the commitment
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The experience of growing up in the small town of Oregon, Ill., helped pave the path for Hana Hinkle’s, ’18 Ph.D., current positions advocating for healthcare in rural areas and in underserved populations. For that work, she was recently named a Presidential Leadership Scholar. Presidential
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Completing a doctorate degree while excelling in a full-time career is never simple, but Debra Kimberlin, who earned a Ph.D. in health sciences from NIU in 2019, felt prepared for the challenge. After nearly two decades of diverse experience in dietetics, including
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The NIU Autism Caregiver Group welcomed caregivers and children to the Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic on March 24 where Jessica Wexell and Autumn Gabriel, of DeKalb-based RAMP Center for Independent Living (CIL), were the guest speakers. “I really appreciated the engaging conversation between the
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Congratulations to NIU audiology student, Chris Bechtel, who presented his capstone research project on April 1 at the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) annual conference in St. Louis, Missouri. Bechtel’s project focused on attempting to improve access to vestibular evaluation care for
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What year did you start working at NIU? 2021 Where is your hometown? and where do you live now? My hometown is Elgin, Illinois, but I live in Huntley. Where did you attend college and what degree(s) have you earned? I attended
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