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A look back at NIU’s summer

Here are links to Northern Today stories published during the summer months.

May 20

• Strategic Planning Task Forces recommend positive campus, Office of Engaged Learning 
• Thirty Filipino leaders to visit NIU for lessons in U.S. democracy 
• Parking Services announces fee increase

May 27

• NIU leaders to attend institute on general education for ideas 
• Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic enjoys new Sycamore Road home 
• Chemistry professor named recipient of grant for use of technology in teaching 
• Recent Star editor Puterbaugh named among nation’s most promising journalists 
• Will newspapers survive? NIU will help bring together prominent journalists to answer question

June 3

• Rural Health Careers Camp begins Friday 
• Lusk among Illinois delegation heading to national summit on nursing shortage 
• ICEE director traveling to South Africa as member of study tour on economic ed

June 9

• High school teachers, students will build cosmic ray detectors 
• Gary Glenn sworn in as member of National Council for Humanities

June 17

• Thursday groundbreaking planned for proton treatment center 
• Northern View gets its due 
• Parking Services now part of Public Safety
• Nutrition professor lends hand, students to healthy Elgin effort

June 23

• Groundbreaking celebration heralds coming NIU proton therapy center 
• John Lewis named executive director of proton treatement, research center 
• Project REAL campers to explore college experience, concepts of tolerance 
• Music historian contributes to volume on European symphonies 1800 to 1930 
• When it comes to awards, history repeats

July 7

• ROCK links companies hoping to make fertilizer  from thin air 
• Chiller project passes halfway point 
• Art imitates life in Bonomo book 
• Retired professor’s novel for boys offers humor, suspense, practical basketball tips 
• Students awarded more than $15,000 in scholarships to study abroad

July 14

• Letter from the President: FY09 State Budget Update 
• Paul Carpenter wins 1,044-mile bicycle race 
• Country school scholars hear ideas from NIU

July 28

• New office to boost P-20 performance in science, technology, engineering, math 
• Academic Convocation to show faculty, student presentations

August 4

• NIU joins theater world to mourn death of Christopher Markle 
• Provost makes administrative appointments 
• NIU scientists among Fermilab collaboration announcing major discover of ‘Z bosons’ 
• NIU students travel to Germany to meet with 25 Nobel Laureates

August 11

• English professors’s book opens new chapter on Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald
• Friends of NIU Libraries to celebrate quarter-century of support, development

August 18

• Feb. 14 ‘recovery’ sessions offered 
• NIU students conducting fieldwork with Burpee Museum help dig up major cache of dinosaur fossils 
• John Knapp's study of NIU colleague becomes book on being a great teacher

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