Lt. Col. Karl Nilsen, NIU Military Sciences Department chair, will be the Soldier of the Game the Chicago Bears vs. Seattle Seahawks game 7:15, Monday, at Soldier Field. A deserving member of the military is honored during an on-field recognition during the third quarter
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Sarah Geiger, assistant professor and undergraduate public health program coordinator, has been elected Fellow of the American Heart Association conferred by the Council on Epidemiology and Prevention (EPI). Fellowship recognizes and awards premium professional members for excellence, innovative and sustained contributions in the
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Graduate students from audiology, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology have found a way to ‘SPARC’ dialog with each other. Students Promoting Active Reflection and Conversations (SPARC) was created to facilitate communication between the Allied Health and Communicative Disorders students whose classes are
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Greetings! I hope you had a wonderful and productive summer. We have been busy at the College of Health and Human Sciences. Our faculty and staff have been engaged in research, building new programs, and getting prepared to welcome students back to
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We congratulate alumna Jeannette Kowalik (’06’ MPH). She has been named Health Commissioner for the City of Milwaukee. City Hall: Council Okays New Health Commissioner
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NIU’s Mariah N. Cheyney, Au.D, clinical assistant professor audiology, provided comments about Illinois’ new law requiring insurers to cover replacement costs of hearing aids every three years for children with hearing loss 18 and younger. Her story about the issue appeared in
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NIU speech-language pathology graduate students Janeen George, Emily Longo, and Kate Roe presented “Speech and Language Therapy: Communication Disorders and Considerations for Referrals” to teachers at St. Mary’s School in DeKalb recently. The three students gained valuable insights while they, under the
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Join us for a free panel discussion about employment opportunities in the dynamic and rapidly growing industry of services for the aging population, 4 to 6 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 23, Wirtz Auditorium (Danielson Room 101). Our panelists include NIU alumni: Jill Krueger,
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Meet Ben Lee, a Pre-Physical Therapy Emphasis Major from Schaumburg. Lee was recently featured as a Huskie Spotlight, talking about why he chose NIU, pre-PT, interesting things he’s learned so far, and his career goals. Read all about it.
Read moreThe NIU School of Nursing is proud to announce scholarship recipients for the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. Through the David R. Layman Endowment, we were able to award $50,000 in total scholarship funds. The recipients, which include NIU alumni, staff
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Several College of Health and Human Sciences faculty attended the Sigma Theta Tau International Conference in Melbourne, Australia in July. They gave presentations and poster sessions. Here’s a summary: Associate Professor of Nursing Manju Daniels gave two presentations and a poster session.
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The NIU School of Nursing helped support the DeKalb School District’s Welcome Back Bash event recently by sharing information and letting students spend some time with Juno, a human simulator. Kristen Selig, director of NIU’s simulation and nursing labs helped students listen
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