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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Chelsea Wachholder (’12), BSN, RN, a critical care unit nurse at SwedishAmerican Hospital, Rockford, received a DAISY Award for extraordinary nursing. The DAISY Award was created in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, to honor the excellent nursing care he received in his
Read moreThe city of DeKalb has recently added parking restrictions to the streets around the School of Nursing building at 1240 Normal Rd. These changes affect students and visitors. Please visit NIU’s city parking ordinances for maps and details.
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If you’re a sports physical therapist, you’re in luck: you’re in demand. Less than 2 percent of all licensed physical therapists in the U.S. are board certified specialists in sports physical therapy. And, if you are studying to become a physical therapist
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The College of Health and Human Sciences, School of Health Studies has its first chair. Jeanne M. Isabel, an award-winning educator and former NIU Medical Laboratory Sciences program director, will take over the role June 1. “Dr. Isabel is a respected leader
Read moreThe faculty and staff at the College of Health and Human Sciences continually conduct research and publish their findings in academic journals and industry publications throughout the year. The following is a list of all published works by CHHS faculty and staff
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This week social media users got into a heated debate over a four second audio file that originated on Reddit and made its way to Twitter: What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel pic.twitter.com/jvHhCbMc8I — Cloe Feldman (@CloeCouture) May 15, 2018 Don’t
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Health Sciences Chair Jeanne Isabel will continue her research on diabetes screening assessment for people living in Belize. Original testing was done in November 2016 and June 2017. The testing planned for June 2018 will include retesting of individuals with previous results
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Recently, NIU nursing students volunteered to provide early screening for potential cardiac conditions in high school students. The NIU School of Nursing’s Northern Prairie Alliance, a chapter of the American Association of Men in Nursing (AAMN) organized the screenings. The Young Hearts
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Northern Public Radio station WNIJ recently featured NIU Speech-Langauge Pathology Associate Professors Jamie Mayer and In-Sop Kim and their research into music’s effects on those with impaired communications. Listen to the segment here.
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Thanks to support from Kohl’s Corporation, the Fashion Merchandising program has acquired two exciting new software programs that will allow students to better prepare for their careers. SmartDraw is a tool for creating retail floor plans and plans for merchandise displays. Students
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Tina Childress, an educational audiologist at the Illinois School for the Deaf in Urbana, Illinois, will present “Connect and Discover,” at the ACHD Graduate Colloquium Seminar, 3:30 p.m., April 30 at the Holmes Student Center Sky Room. Childress has expertise in cochlear
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