The Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning is taking applications for full-time sophomore, junior and senior students to be peer mentors for four programs.Students can peer mentor for Research Rookies, Huskie Service Scholars, NIU Service...
Jenee Carlson, freshman business major and Research Rookies member, will hold an anonymous food needs survey.Carlson will study food needs in order to reduce hunger on campus, according to an NIU news release.From 5:30-7:30 p.m. March 3 and April 7 at...
DeKalb | NIU is asking Freshmen and seniors to fill out the National Survey on Student Engagement.The survey was sent to students via NIU student email Wednesday, and the deadline to complete it is March 23. The data received from this survey will be...
Pre-medicine student Jessica Cox (left) and other Research Rookies are recognized during the Research Rookies Reception Monday in Altgeld Hall auditorium. Cox works with biological sciences professor Karen Samonds researching bat fossils from Madagascar that are between 5 and 10 million years old.
Lizabeth Roman, sophomore community leadership & civic major, Kathryn Voight, freshman history major, and Zharfan Irawan, accounting major, gather together Monday night to discuss their various research topics in their classes at the Founders Memorial...
Research Rookies members attended their second monthly meeting since the beginning of the semester on Monday.The Research Rookies program is one of multiple research opportunities provided to students. One aspect that makes the Research Rookies program...
A certain kind of fungal growth, Aspergillus nidulans, may affect patients with weak immune systems. Research Rookie Justin Durancik, sophomore biology major, and Ana Calvo, professor of biological sciences, will conduct an investigation of fungal growth...
Modernized drugs made from new compounds may be able to treat bacterial infections and malaria. Freshman biochemistry major Zachary Lazowski and Timothy Hagen, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, will work to design, synthesize and purify...
Some individuals with limb differences may have problems with psychological and social development depending on the severity of their limb difference, according to the research done by Courtney Halas, freshman clinical laboratory science major. A “limb...
How someone views and presents themselves when they are in an online situation can be different than how they view themselves when face-to-face with someone. Research Rookie Zach Woods, sophomore psychology major, said peoples’ perceptions of themselves...
Something as simple as the choice of color a marketer uses on their product could affect a person’s decision to buy the company’s merchandise. Melissa Woodall, sophomore illustration major, is examining marketer’s color choices to use on their merchandise...
Men joined the U.S. army to fight in the Civil War for multiple reasons. Wayne Duerkes will be trying to discover these reasons through his Research Rookies project. Duerkes, a junior history major, and his mentor Bradley Bond, Dean of the Graduate School,...
