The American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) recently announced its 2020 student scholars and NIU is represented with two students. Glenn Agape Montero is among the 30 students selected from a nationwide application process. The designation as an APNA Student Scholar comes with
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Nursing student named WGCA All-American Scholar
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – Northern Illinois University women’s golf student-athletes Lauren Ingle (Rochester Hills, Mich./Rochester Hills-Stoney Creek), Jasmine Ly (Windsor, Ontario, Canada/Holy Names), and Isabella Samudio (Bogota, Colombia/Colegio Helvetia De Bogota) have been named All-American Scholars by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association.
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Huskie Spotlight shines on nursing student Guzette Espinal
Hometown: Aurora, IL Year: Expected graduation: May 2023 Major: Nursing What is your major, and why did you choose your field of study? My intended major is nursing. I chose this field of study because I grew up taking care of my sisters since I am
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Nursing alumni, student athletes, on COVID-19 frontline
(Reposted from NIUhuskies.com) The fields of play are temporarily silent, but several NIU Huskies continue to compete, albeit against a very different opponent. Many NIU student-athletes, both past and present, are among the heroes working in the fight against COVID-19. Their experiences
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Alumna on the COVID front lines in Queens
NIU alumna Angela Spahr (’13, BS, Nursing) is in her first week of a COVID Crisis six-week ER assignment at New York Presbyterian Queens Hospital. She shared these workplace photos with us. We are so proud of you, Angela!
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NIU faculty ramp up COVID-19 research
Several NIU faculty, including Josephine Ebomoyi, Paul Priester, M. Courtney Hughes, Kari Hickey, and Janet Olson have pivoted their research to take on COVID-19-related studies. Learn more.
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Alumni news: Nurse answers call to help NYC battle COVID-19
We are so proud of alumnus Lt. Cmdr. Bennie Jonathan Sumner (B.S., Nursing ’07), a U. S. Navy reservist who is a surgical nurse in San Francisco. He volunteered to return to active-duty to deploy to New York City to assist with
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Huskie gymnasts, CHHS students make Academic All-Mac team
A school-record 11 members of the Northern Illinois University gymnastics team have been named to the 2020 Academic All-MAC Gymnastics Team announced by the Mid-American Conference Wednesday. For the second consecutive year, NIU had a school-record 11 student-athletes earn Academic All-MAC honor.
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CHHS donates PPE to DeKalb Fire Department to battle COVID-19
The Northern Illinois University College of Health and Human Sciences (CHHS) donated several dozen boxes of personal protective equipment to the DeKalb Fire Department Monday to help prepare the community to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. CHHS donated exam gloves in all sizes,
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Artistic director of TCU School of Medicine presents clinics to CHHS students
Training speakers to connect more empathetically, whether they are physicians, other medical professionals, students or actors, is something Val Lantz-Gefroh has been training all her life for. Even if she didn’t know it at first. She will be in DeKalb, March 20
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Collaboration skills focus of Interdisciplinary Case Study
Over 170 students from NIU and University of Illinois at Chicago met last week for the annual Interdisciplinary Case Study. Students in NIU’s audiology, dietetics, medical laboratory science, nursing, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology, and pharmacy students from UIC participated in a
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Nursing students provide advice at homeless center
Students in instructor Rhoda Jefferson’s Population-Focused Nursing Clinical course visited The Carpenter’s Place in Rockford recently to educate clients there on personal health care and hygiene. The class visited the non-profit homeless day center to provide classes and one-on-one advice and instruction.
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