CHHS faculty are participating in several NIU summer camps, including the new Fashion Studio camp for high schoolers interested in fashion merchandising. Read about it in NIUToday.
Read moreCouple and Family Therapy Clinic open to help students, couples, families
An increase in graduate students in the NIU M.S. Specialization in the Marriage and Family Therapy (SMFT) Program is not only good news for the program, it’s good news for those in need of counseling right now. Read the story in NIUToday.
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Work Day to Runway fashion show set
Fashion Industries Organization is producing Work Day to Runway, Fashion Merchandising’s annual Kohl’s sponsored fashion show 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 7, at the Duke Ellington Ballroom, Holmes Student Center. Admission is free and all are welcome.
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Huskie spotlight focuses on audiology professor
Blythe Kitner, an audiology instructor and recipient of an NIU Presidential Commission on the Status of Women Outstanding Mentor Award, has become one of the university faculty featured in a Huskie Spotlight. Read her story.
Read moreInterprofessional Case Study event a success
Over 260 students from several area universities and healthcare groups recently participated in an Interprofessional Case Study event here. Led by School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders Chair Sherrill Morris, and School of Health Studies Dietetics Intern Coordinator Nancy Prange, students studied
Read moreMedical Laboratory Sciences student earns Northern Pact scholarship
Meet Rachel Gathman, a junior MLS student from Genoa, Illinois. She exhibits the vision of service and personal responsibility the Division of Student Affairs looks for when awarding the Northern Pact scholarship to students. Gathman shares why she loves NIU.
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AHCD professor named engaged learning exemplar
Associate Professor Jamie Mayer has been recognized as an engaged learning exemplar for her outstanding commitment to engaged learning, teaching and scholarship. Read about her in NIUToday.
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Professor discusses NIU Marriage and Family Counseling program on WNIJ
Mark Killmer, director of the NIU Marriage and Family Therapy Counseling program sat down with a reporter from Northern Public Radio WNIJ recently to discuss an increase the program is seeing in minority students interested in marriage and family counseling. Read the
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Donation helps more PT students attend national meeting
Thanks to a donation from Jakob Awender ’15, graduate of NIU’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program, 14 PT students were able to attend the American Physical Therapy Association’s national Combined Sections Meeting in New Orleans recently. This important meeting brings together different
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Gladfelter recognized for outstanding commitment to engaged learning
Assistant Professor Allison Gladfelter has been nominated her colleagues in the School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders to be recognized as an engaged learning exemplar for her commitment to engaged learning, teaching and scholarship. Read all about her engaged learning philosophy and techniques
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Forward, Together Forward Scholarship recipient aims to feed the world
Nutrition, Dietetics and Wellness major, Megan Gardner, has earned an NIU Forward Together Forward Scholarship — an award in honor of the students lost on Feb. 14, 2008. Read more about Gardner and the other scholarship recipients.
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Nursing alumna takes her skills overseas
Angela Spahr, ’13, recently participated in her second medical mission to Haiti. She traveled with a healthcare team as part of CHAMPS: Connecting Hope and Medicine to People in Haiti. They create rural clinics and provide medical care to Haitians in Croix
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