Category: Global

Discovering new passions

Student research, artistry, community engagement will be on display at HSC

  • April 11, 2017
The amazing creativity and discoveries of NIU students will be in full bloom this spring during NIU’s eighth annual Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day. The event will take place from 9...

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Social justice, service learning

NIU counseling students gain ‘life-changing’ perspectives during mission trips to Guatemala

  • March 13, 2017
Many service-minded NIU students are spending this week’s Spring Break on the road, volunteering their time and labor to improve the lives of people in faraway places. But that sort...

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Food for thought

NIU anthropology professor Mitch Irwin to study diets of Madagascar’s adorable—and endangered—lemurs

  • October 27, 2016
Monkey business, it's not. NIU anthropology professor Mitch Irwin recently won a $19,500 National Geographic Society research grant  to support a year-long nutritional profile of arguably some of the cutest...

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Imagine that

NIU offers immersion in U.S. education to Taiwanese high-schoolers

  • October 13, 2016
“There are many differences between Taiwanese education and American education. However, we shouldn’t just see the advantages of them and ignore the disadvantages. (Open Imagination) allows me to experience both...

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Bridging oceans

NIU joins Macedonian university in promoting peace

  • September 27, 2016
Deep and influential thinkers from around the world will convene this December in Macedonia at the State University of Tetovo’s Center for Peace and Transcultural Communication. As they share their...

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Antarctic mystery solved?

Scientists say ocean fossils found in mountains are cause for concern over future sea levels

  • September 20, 2016
Tiny ocean fossils distributed widely across rock surfaces in the Transantarctic Mountains point to the potential for a substantial rise in global sea levels under conditions of continued global warming,...

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Making a better solar cell

Researchers discover technique to improve perovskites

  • August 17, 2016
An international team of scientists that includes NIU researchers has mapped out a pioneering route to improve the performance of hybrid perovskite solar cells. Perovskite solar cells are not yet...

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Mysterious matter

NIU physicists join effort to beam neutrinos 800 miles through the earth

  • August 15, 2016
A team of NIU physicists has joined the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a collaboration of scientists from more than 140 laboratories and universities in 27 countries who aim to...

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Colorful past

NIU biologists help sequence petunia genomes

  • July 12, 2016
Two Northern Illinois University biologists are key members of an international consortium of scientists that has sequenced and analyzed the DNA of two wild varieties of petunia—a four-year effort that...

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Using computer models to help nations address obesity

Computer scientist Philippe Giabbanelli tackles health challenges with ‘systems science’

  • June 29, 2016
We know obesity is a problem in the United States and other countries. So when it comes to young people’s access to fast-food meals during the school day, how close...

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