NIU was represented at the West Suburban Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics quarterly meeting recently by several faculty and staff. Health Sciences Professor Melani Duffrin presented her FoodMaster program while Director of the Dietetic Internship program, Nancy Prange and graduate student Kelly
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NIU Audiology Professor King Chung is making good use of her Fulbright Scholarship Award. She and a team in Brazil have provided hearing tests for over 500 people in three different populations in two months. She has moved on to Natal, where
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Avkin, a leading company in wearable technology for patient-centered simulation, has named Kristen Selig, NIU’s nursing laboratory coordinator, a Simulation Superhero. She was recognized for working hard to educate future health care providers in simulation and being an expert in her profession.
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Visiting Assistant Professor Henna Muzaffar has been named the Early Career Award winner for the Nutrition Education & Behavioral Science Research Interest Section of the American Society for Nutrition. She received the award earlier this month at the ASN conference in Baltimore.
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SwedishAmerican has announced nurse practitioner, Katherine Coulter, has joined the medical team at the Rochelle Clinic, Rochelle, Illinois. Coulter is also an assistant professor of nursing at NIU. A story about Coulter was recently published in the Rock River Times.
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Scott Sibley, family and child studies assistant professor, has received the Faculty Mentor Award from the Illinois Council on Family Relations. The award was given during the ILCFR 2019 Conference in Charleston, Illinois.
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Science education has never tasted so good. NIU received a $930,000 National Institutes of Health Science Education Partnership Award for a FoodMASTER initiative. FoodMASTER uses food as a tool to teach mathematics and science. The NIH grant aims to expand the existing FoodMASTER
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Congratulations to Child Development and Family Center team who will receive this year’s NIU Supportive Professional Staff (SPS) Award for Partnership and Collaboration. “This award is given to staff or groups who have demonstrated a willingness to partner, cooperate, and collaborate for
Read moreA poster by audiology student Kassondra Hemmen, along with Blythe Kitner, Audiology clinical assistant professor, has been nominated for an American Academy of Audiology Foundation James and Susan Jerger Award for Excellent in Student Research. Their poster, “PP1507: Quantifying Aging Effects on the
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A study co-authored by NIU Child and Family Studies Assistant Professor Xiaohui Sophie Li was recently sited in a Market Business News article: Prepare kids financially by giving them hands-on experience with money.
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Matthew Sprong, NIU assistant professor, Rehabilitation Services and Rehabilitation Counseling, recently received the Sylvia Walker National Multicultural Award from the National Rehabilitation Association. The Sylvia Walker Award is named after a professor, researcher and director of the first federal Research and Training Center (RTC) focused
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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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