Tagged: student research

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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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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Bird’s-eye view

NIU researchers using drone to study effect of bison return to Nachusa

  • October 12, 2016
The Nachusa Grasslands near Dixon, Ill., just a 45-minute drive from the NIU campus, had a new visitor flying overhead this past summer, but it wasn’t one of the nature preserve’s many…

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Prairie state of mind

For NIU students, Nachusa Grasslands is a 3,500-acre living laboratory

  • November 30, 2015
World-renowned for its restoration strategies, the Nachusa Grasslands preserve near Dixon, Ill., just a 45-minute drive from the NIU campus, provides a rare and stunning reminder of what the “Prairie…

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Taking the pulse—of a city

NIU computer scientist has key role in Chicago’s ‘Array of Things’ project

  • September 14, 2015
We use devices with sensors nowadays to monitor our personal fitness. Soon a group of researchers from Illinois laboratories and universities, including NIU, will use a vast array of sensors…

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Mysteries of Madagascar

NIU biologist Karen Samonds explores evolutionary history of island’s modern fauna

  • May 28, 2015
Northern Illinois University biology professor Karen Samonds is looking forward this summer to reconnecting with old friends in a sunny place close to her heart. She also is looking forward…

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