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Author: lbotterman1@niu.edu

Huskie gymnasts, CHHS students make Academic All-Mac team

April 15, 2020 lbotterman1@niu.edu Students

A school-record 11 members of the Northern Illinois University gymnastics team have been named to the 2020 Academic All-MAC Gymnastics Team announced by the Mid-American Conference Wednesday. For the second consecutive year, NIU had a school-record 11 student-athletes earn Academic All-MAC honor.

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Celebrating our alumni during National Public Health Week

April 8, 2020 lbotterman1@niu.edu Alumni, Public Health

This week (April 6-12) marks National Public Health Week. During the most challenging health crisis of our lifetime, it’s more important than ever to thank those who work to keep our nation safer and healthier. In honor of this recognition week, we

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CHHS donates PPE to DeKalb Fire Department to battle COVID-19

April 7, 2020 lbotterman1@niu.edu Allied Health and Communicative Disorders

The Northern Illinois University College of Health and Human Sciences (CHHS) donated several dozen boxes of personal protective equipment to the DeKalb Fire Department Monday to help prepare the community to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. CHHS donated exam gloves in all sizes,

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The Child and Family Development Center ‘Can’t Stop the Feeling’

April 3, 2020 lbotterman1@niu.edu Child Development Lab, College of Family and Consumer Sciences

The teachers and staff at the NIU Child and Family Development Center wanted to share a little sunshine with  children and families they serve. They enlisted the help of their own families — including their pets. Check out the fun.

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A message from Dean Derryl Block

March 23, 2020 lbotterman1@niu.edu Uncategorized

Dear CHHS Students: Perhaps more than other NIU students, the College of Health and Human Sciences (CHHS) students are keenly aware of the importance of our response to the COVID19 pandemic. As future health and human services leaders, you are training to

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Artistic director of TCU School of Medicine presents clinics to CHHS students

March 9, 2020 lbotterman1@niu.edu Events

Training speakers to connect more empathetically, whether they are physicians, other medical professionals, students or actors, is something Val Lantz-Gefroh has been training all her life for. Even if she didn’t know it at first. She will be in DeKalb, March 20

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Breaking Barriers: Serving Immigrant Families topic of ILCFR conference

March 3, 2020 lbotterman1@niu.edu Events, Family and Consumer Sciences

NIU is hosting the Illinois Council on Family Relations (ILCFR) 2020 Conference: Breaking Barriers: Serving Immigrant Families, 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., April 3, at the Holmes Student Center Duke Ellington Ballroom. Human Development and Family Sciences students are encouraged to attend

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Collaboration skills focus of Interdisciplinary Case Study

March 2, 2020 lbotterman1@niu.edu Allied Health and Communicative Disorders

Over 170 students from NIU and University of Illinois at Chicago met last week for the annual Interdisciplinary Case Study. Students in NIU’s audiology, dietetics, medical laboratory science, nursing, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology, and pharmacy students from UIC participated in a

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Nursing students provide advice at homeless center

March 2, 2020 lbotterman1@niu.edu Nursing

Students in instructor Rhoda Jefferson’s Population-Focused Nursing Clinical course visited The Carpenter’s Place in Rockford recently to educate clients there on personal health care and hygiene. The class visited the non-profit homeless day center to provide classes and one-on-one advice and instruction.

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National Eating Disorder Awareness Week event a success

March 2, 2020 lbotterman1@niu.edu Nutrition, Students

NIU hosted a National Eating Disorder Awareness Week event Feb. 26 in the Holmes Student Center. The Awareness Fair was held from 11-5 p.m. in the HSC Ground Floor and Capitol Room, where NIU students had set-up different booths and activities to

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Undergraduate research project goes the distance

February 27, 2020 lbotterman1@niu.edu Allied Health and Communicative Disorders, Alumni, Speech-Language Pathology

Cassidy VanZuiden’s Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day (URAD) project — exploring why children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) echo or parody speech — grew into a national award-winning project and then a published research paper in a prestigious journal. VanZuiden, who graduated

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Two CHHS students earn Forward, Together Forward scholarships

February 17, 2020 lbotterman1@niu.edu Nursing, Rehabilitation Services, Students

The 2020 Forward, Together Forward Scholarship winners continue a 12-year history of celebrating and supporting students who not only succeed in the classroom, but also serve as leaders on campus and beyond. This year’s winners include College of Health and Human Sciences

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