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Northern Today - January 7, 2008

Wei Luo and Kathleen KittsHigh school students use
NASA data to determine
whether rain fell on Mars

Did it ever rain on Mars? Scientists have conducted research on the topic and debated the question for decades. Now high school students, using data from NASA, will be launching their own investigations.

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Kendall ThuKendall Thu named editor
of national journal in anthropology

NIU anthropologist Kendall Thu has been appointed editor of “Culture and Agriculture,” a national peer-reviewed journal that has a readership among anthropologists and archaeologists, as well as researchers and practitioners in sociology, agricultural economics, food studies and policy sciences.

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Bogdan DabrowskiBogdan Dabrowski named
American Physical Society fellow

Bogdan Dabrowski, a distinguished research professor in the NIU Department of Physics, has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in recognition of his outstanding research in the area of materials science.

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Japanese artArt Museum celebrates Japanese art

Some high culture of the Far East has come to NIU’s Art Museum.

From Jan. 15 through March 7, the museum presents the “National/International Consciousness in Japan: Self, Place, and Society during the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Centuries” project.

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