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Davis Hall sits under a partly cloudy afternoon sky on Tuesday. Davis Hall houses the NIU Observatory and the NIU Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences, now known as the Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences. (Nyla Owens | Northern Star)

NIU merges fault line between disciplines

By Brandon Clark, News Reporter | September 19, 2023

DeKALB – Seismic shifts are happening on campus, just not earthquakes. Two years after being approved, two earth science departments were finally combined. On Dec. 7, 2021, it was announced that the NIU Department of Geographic and Atmospheric...