M.S. in Nursing graduate Maria Vanessa Simoy Mabazza was featured in NIU President Lisa Freeman’s Graduate School Commencement address December 2017. Maria Vanessa Simoy Mabazza is one of those rare people who actually like being in the hospital. As a young child,
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Michael Amaya, B.S. in Public Health, was featured in NIU President Lisa Freeman’s Undergraduate School Commencement address December 2017. Michael Amaya is not unlike many NIU Public Health students. He worked exceptionally hard to get to graduation day December 2017 where he
Read moreScott J. Davis, FNP (’10), will be featured in the upcoming International Nurses Association’s publication, Worldwide Leaders in Healthcare. Davis is a family nurse practitioner with Northwestern Medicine in Sandwich, Illinois. Read the news release.
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Kishwaukee College and Northern Illinois University recently expanded their academic partnership, announcing a new degree completion option for the Associate Degree Nursing program at Kishwaukee and the Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science Completion Program at NIU. The agreement will be formally
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Rachel Stuehm, a third-year student in NIU’s Doctor of Audiology program, will present a poster at the upcoming annual conference of the American Academy of Audiology. She will present: “Under the influence: narcotics abuse and hearing loss,” a case study examining the possible effects
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The NIU Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology graduate programs are being evaluated for reaccreditation by the Council for Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in February. Public feedback is a part of that process. All are invited
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Associate Professor of Nursing Jie Chen has been named a Nurse Educator Fellow by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. She becomes one of 19 distinguished educators selected from across the state. She joins a select group of only 149 Nurse Educator
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We were honored to be co-sponsors of Temple Grandin’s appearance here at NIU. In case you missed it, we’re sharing the video on YouTube.
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Congratulations are in order for two NIU Nutrition and Dietetic students who were awarded scholarships from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation. Georgia McArtney earned the Colonel Frances G. Ballentine Scholarship Fund for $3,000. Megan Farris, also an NIU Nutrition and Dietetics
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NIU Master of Public Health graduate, Larry Williams, DDS, MPH (’17) is an associate professor in dentistry at the College of Dental Medicine-Illinois (CDMI), Midwestern University, Downers Grove Illinois. We asked him about his work and why he pursued his MPH at NIU.
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NIU School of Nursing students in the class “Population-Focused Nursing” brought health education and a little holiday spirit to some special people recently. The class, complete in holiday garb, went to the Westmont iCARE senior building on Dec. 4 and Peace Manor
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Four nursing students scheduled to graduate this December were recognized at the NIU Honors Ceremony on Dec. 5, 2017. Nursing seniors Alesha Gauntt, Amanda Puls, Justin Suda and Ling Zhu all received recognition for meeting honors requirements during their undergraduate career at
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