Kudos

Roger Dahlstrom, a senior research associate at NIU’s Regional Development Institute, has been appointed to the Citizen’s Advisory Board of the newly formed Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, which combines the regional planning and resource allocation activities of the Northern Illinois Planning Commission and the Chicago Area Transportation Study. The group is charged with protecting natural resources and minimizing transportation congestion in the seven-county Chicago region.

Dahlstrom has 28 years of professional city planning experience. His areas of expertise include growth management, land use planning and zoning, capital improvement programming, community and fiscal impact analysis, development impact fee analysis and design, development agreements, and tax increment financing.

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English Professor Michael Day, director of the First-Year Composition Program at NIU, has been named as the recipient of the Charles Moran Award, recognizing exemplary scholarship and professional service to the field of computers and writing. The editors of “Computers and Composition,” an international journal, presented the award during the June Computers and Writing conference at Texas Tech University.

Day was praised for his many distinguished contributions to the field, including his work as chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication, with the National Council of Teachers of English and as coeditor of the books, “The Online Writing Classroom” and “Technical Communication and the World Wide Web.”

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