Recently NIU’s Student Academy of Audiology held their white coat ceremony and capstone project presentations for the program’s third-year students. These students are now off to participate in their externships: Anastasia Grindle: Boys Town National Research Hospital (Omaha, Nebraska) Kassy Hemmen: Space
Read moreMessage from Dean Derryl Block
Welcome summer! It took a while to get here, but we are happy to be enjoying the sunshine and reflecting on an eventful spring semester at the NIU College of Health and Human Sciences. We have some exciting new changes underway. This
Read moreStudent groups tend community garden
Two NIU School of Nursing student groups pitched in to help at NIU Cares Day recently. The Northern Prairie Alliance (a chapter of the American Association of Men in Nursing) and the Student Nurses Organization (SNO) both rallied their members to join the
Read moreNursing students volunteer to screen high schoolers for cardiac issues
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
Read moreSLP profs launch program to foster healthy family communication
A unique program is helping families learn, while the students teaching them are learning about families. Working with Changing Children’s Worlds Foundation, and using funds through the NIU Foundation, NIU faculty and students are facilitating an international Parent-Child Relationship Development Program in DeKalb. Families gather
Read moreSchool of Nursing hosts students from Japan
ELS, an intensive language training institute, with a branch on NIU’s campus, hosted a group of 20 students from the University of Kumamoto in Japan during the month of March. As part of their visit and studies, the NIU School of Nursing
Read moreWork Day to Runway fashion show set
Fashion Industries Organization is producing Work Day to Runway, Fashion Merchandising’s annual Kohl’s sponsored fashion show 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 7, at the Duke Ellington Ballroom, Holmes Student Center. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Read moreMedical Laboratory Sciences student earns Northern Pact scholarship
Meet Rachel Gathman, a junior MLS student from Genoa, Illinois. She exhibits the vision of service and personal responsibility the Division of Student Affairs looks for when awarding the Northern Pact scholarship to students. Gathman shares why she loves NIU.
Read moreDonation helps more PT students attend national meeting
Thanks to a donation from Jakob Awender ’15, graduate of NIU’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program, 14 PT students were able to attend the American Physical Therapy Association’s national Combined Sections Meeting in New Orleans recently. This important meeting brings together different
Read moreForward, Together Forward Scholarship recipient aims to feed the world
Nutrition, Dietetics and Wellness major, Megan Gardner, has earned an NIU Forward Together Forward Scholarship — an award in honor of the students lost on Feb. 14, 2008. Read more about Gardner and the other scholarship recipients.
Read moreHuskie Spotlight on HDFS senior
Edgar Favela, a senior from Streamwood, Illinois, studing Human Development and Family Sciences tells Huskie Spotlight what excites him the most about his major.
Read moreSLP student featured in Huskie Spotlight
Speech-language Pathology graduate student Megan Haduch, of Park Ridge, Illinois, says, “Graduate school is everything I could have wished for.” Read what else she has to say about NIU and her degree program.
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