2011 News

December

• NIU Libraries acquires papers of Chicago-born sci-fi writer Fred Saberhagen (December 06, 2011)
• MEDIA ALERT: NIU announces Fall 2011 Commencement (December 06, 2011)

November

• NIUAA names new president to Board of Directors (November 29, 2011)
• NIU Board of Trustees to meet Thursday, Dec. 1 (November 29, 2011)
• Robotic cameras provide safety, peace of mind at NIU (November 14, 2011)
• NIU Board of Trustees to meet Thursday, Nov. 10 (November 07, 2011)

October

• Now there’s a class for that app: NIU, Lextech join forces to offer series of courses on how to write smartphone applications (October 18, 2011)
• Nora Lindvall named Student Lincoln Laureate (October 10, 2011)
• NIU’s cat woman: Book by biologist Virginia Naples is putting new face on ferocious saber-tooth cats (October 06, 2011)
• NIU extends broadband initiatives (October 06, 2011)
• Experience the wonders of science: NIU Convocation Center to host Oct. 22 STEMfest (October 03, 2011)

September

• Famine in the Horn of Africa: NIU Women’s Studies and NGOLD (Center for NGO Leadership and Development) sponsor second teach-in (September 27, 2011)
• Bolzans to present lecture on overcoming life’s obstacles (September 26, 2011)
• NIU Study Abroad Fair set for Wednesday, Sept. 21 (September 15, 2011)
• NIU, Chicago museum to debut exhibit documenting stories from survivors of Cambodia's ‘killing fields’ (September 15, 2011)
• Institute of International Education selects NIU for program to increase ties with India (September 12, 2011)
• Board of Trustees to meet Thursday, Sept. 15 (September 12, 2011)
• NSF awards $2 million grant to NIU to encourage students to study science, technology, engineering and math (September 08, 2011)
• Prominent historian and author John W. Dower will deliver next W. Bruce Lincoln Lecture (September 08, 2011)
• NIU sets enrollment goal of 30,000 by 2020 (September 01, 2011)

August

• Make-a-difference majors: State approves new NIU degrees in environmental studies and community leadership and civic engagement (August 31, 2011)
• Board of Trustees Committees to meet Thursday, Aug. 25 (August 23, 2011)
• Who are you talking to? NIU study urges high school science teachers to balance verbal interactions with boys, girls (August 15, 2011)
• Goldfinger: NIU chemist contributing to development of novel method for recovering old fingerprints using gold-antibody nanoparticles (August 02, 2011)

July

• NIU Board of Trustees to hold informal workshop Wednesday, July 27, on sustainability, BOT bylaws (July 25, 2011)

June

• NIU’s Peters says pension reform must be fair to all (June 21, 2011)
• NIU scientists discover simple, green and cost-effective way to produce high yields of highly touted graphene (June 20, 2011)
• NIU anthropologist pens chapter for award-winning book on feeding operations (June 14, 2011)
• NIU physicist Gerald Blazey accepts two-year post at White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (June 14, 2011)
• What mom thinks matters (June 07, 2011)
• Board of Trustees to meet Thursday, June 9 (June 06, 2011)

May

• NIU’s Lynne Thomas nominated for Hugo Award (May 31, 2011)
• Shifting suburban hierarchy - NIU geographer: Outer-ring towns gained strength in numbers, rank over past decade (May 24, 2011)
• Twenty Rockford teachers to earn master’s degrees with specialization in middle school mathematics (May 11, 2011)
• Board of Trustees committees to meet May 12 (May 10, 2011)
• NIU meteorology students interning with WGN’s Tom Skilling (May 05, 2011)
• NIU Alumni Association names 2011 award winners (May 04, 2011)

April

• Governor appoints four to NIU Board of Trustees (April 28, 2011)
• Operating Staff at NIU announces recipients of annual Outstanding Service Awards (April 26, 2011)
• NIU historian Kenton Clymer awarded prestigious Wilson Center fellowship for Burma book project (April 25, 2011)
• NIU’s renowned public administration program becoming player on world stage (April 25, 2011)
• NIU leaders to break ground April 18 to begin new on-campus residential complex project (April 15, 2011)
• Four Supportive Professional Staff at NIU win Presidential Awards for Excellence (April 14, 2011)
• Cliff Mirman, Susan Russell, Kendall Thu earn NIU's first Presidential Engagement Professor honors (April 14, 2011)
• Harvey Blau, Murali Krishnamurthi, Greg Long named 2011 Presidential Teaching Professors (April 12, 2011)
• Bradley Bond named dean of the NIU Graduate School (April 12, 2011)
• Dhiman Chakraborty and Richard King named 2011 Presidential Research Professors (April 05, 2011)

March

• Jeffrey Chown, John Hartmann and Gerald Jensen named 2011 Board of Trustees Professors (March 29, 2011)
• NIU will award honorary degrees this spring to Argonne National Laboratory Director Eric D. Isaacs, Farm Credit Administration CEO Leland A. Strom (March 24, 2011)
• Board of Trustees to meet March 24 (March 22, 2011)
• Board of Trustees committees to meet (March 01, 2011)

February

• NIU names Jerry D. Blakemore as vice president, general counsel (February 28, 2011)
• 2011 Forward, Together Forward Scholarship recipients demonstrate true meaning of 'Huskie Pride' (February 14, 2011)

January

• NIU scientists find fast, easy way to make hydrogen nanosensors (January 12, 2011)
• Carnegie Foundation recognizes NIU for engaged learning (January 07, 2011)

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