Every commencement ceremony at NIU is filled with students who have amazing stories to tell. Stories of academic excellence, of service to the campus and community and of obstacles overcome and dreams attained. Unfortunately, we cannot tell you the story behind every
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Kayla Halfacre, ’10, B.S. Hospitality Administration, was featured recently in Agrinews for her role in Scoops for Thanks at the Culver’s restaurant she co-owns. Read the entire article.
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Janet McCabe, ’82, B.S. Nursing, was recently featured in FarmWeekNow.com for her focus on health care as the president of the Cook County Farm Bureau. McCabe works part time as a nurse, a farmer, as well as her bureau duties. Read all
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Alum credits NIU with hotel management success, gives back Jeff Wolff Jeff Wolff started at Marriott as a bus boy about 45 years ago while still in high school and now travels throughout the world, working with more than 5,000 hotels. A
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Beth Carik (’94), an alumna of the Child and Family Studies program, has just been named the vice president of human resources for AbelsonTaylor, the world’s largest independent medical advertising agency. She will be responsible for leading the agency’s recruitment, orientation, benefits
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Friday’s NIU ROTC Huskie Battalion’s Commissioning Ceremony features guest speaker Maj. Gen. Brian E. Alvin (’84), the most senior ranking U.S. Army officer from NIU. Alvin received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering Technology from NIU and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, Chemical
Read moreAdvanced Practice Nurse Arika Safranski (’11) is joining the family medicine care team of Dr. Tariq Khan and Joan Luckey, APN, at OSF HealthCare Medical Group Center for Health-Streator. Read the details.
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When Spring Piatek was treated for Kawasaki disease at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago at age 4, she remembers a nurse staying with her in the middle of the night to tend to her fever. The nurse gave her a grape Popsicle to soothe
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Several graduates of the NIU School of Nursing Class of 1968 gathered for their 50th class reunion recently. Favorite faculty member Marian Frerichs also made a guest appearance. Derryl Block, Dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences, welcomed them and
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Below is a guest post from U.S. Army Reserve Col. (retired) Beth Liechti Johnson. Johnson is an NIU ROTC alumna, Class of ’81. She chaired the recent NIU ROTC 50th Anniversary event “Honor & Connect–1968 to 2018.” She wrote this account of
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We congratulate Katie Backman, ’18, on landing a job as a therapist in applied behavior analysis with By Your Side in Burr Ridge, Illinois. A B.S. in rehabilitation and disability services prepared her for a career in therapy.
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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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