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
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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Sarah Geiger, assistant professor and undergraduate public health program coordinator, has been elected Fellow of the American Heart Association conferred by the Council on Epidemiology and Prevention (EPI). Fellowship recognizes and awards premium professional members for excellence, innovative and sustained contributions in the
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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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NIU’s Mariah N. Cheyney, Au.D, clinical assistant professor audiology, provided comments about Illinois’ new law requiring insurers to cover replacement costs of hearing aids every three years for children with hearing loss 18 and younger. Her story about the issue appeared in
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