Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Award-winning professor of business, proven high-level administrator and scholar Douglas D. Baker succeeds John G. Peters.
Douglas D. Baker — an award-winning professor of business, proven high-level administrator and scholar of management and leadership in higher education —has been named the 12th president of Northern Illinois University. NIU’s Board of Trustees voted Tuesday, April 2, to hire the 57-year-old Baker, whose appointment will be effective July 1. He currently serves as provost and executive vice president at the University of Idaho. An expert in organizational strategy, structure and motivation, Baker said he hopes to bring NIU to the fore as a national model for a 21st century public university. “NIU is clearly a university with strong students, an excellent staff and outstanding faculty, who are not only exceptional teachers but also top …
Thursday, December 20, 2012
NIU boasts five Tri-Cities players, including former Vikings Michael Santacaterina and Matt Williams. Here's a list of Patch-town players as well as the line-up of bowl games that await super-fans.
The BCS bowl season has begun, and two Geneva players are on the roster of bowl-bound area players. Geneva's Michael Santacaterina is a redshirt sophomore linebacker and freshman Matt Williams a backup quarterback for No. 15 Northern Illinois, a surprise BCS team, heading to the Orange Bowl to play No. 12 Florida State on New Year's Day. Also from the Tri-Cities and now playing for NIU are offensive lineman Ryan Brown of St. Charles North, tight end Jess Striedl of St. Charles East and linebacker Bobby Winkel, a Batavia resident who played for Marmion. They are among a long list of Patch-area players on the rosters of some of the best teams in college football. If we've missed out on any of the local connections, tell us about it in the …
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Genevan Joe Magliano study shows that people who concentrate hard enough can make time fly.
You’re on deadline, totally immersed in a project at work or school. You glance at your wristwatch and can’t believe where the time has gone. There’s a reason for this time-flies phenomenon, and it has to do with an individual’s working memory capacity, according to NIU researchers. “Individuals with high working memory capacity devote so much of their attention to a task at hand that they lose track of their internal clocks,” says Joseph Magliano, a Geneva resident and NIU professor of psychology who specializes in learning and memory. “When fully focused,” he says, “time flies.” Magliano and his doctorate student, James Woehrle, demonstrated how attention warps the perception of time in a study published earlier this year in the journal…
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Geneva's very own Lauren Wicinski and four other volleyball players from Northern Illinois University file release requests, according to a story in the Daily Chronicle of DeKalb.
The DeKalb Chronicle is reporting that Geneva's Lauren Wicinski and three other volleyball players at Northern Illinois University have decided to transfer from NIU to another, unnamed college or colleges. The report says Wicinski and fellow sophomores Jessica Lubic, Haley Norris and Cheyenne Dawson, filed requests to be released from NIU. Lubic is a Kaneland graduate. Wincinski is the two-time Mid-American Conference player of the year. She recently had spend a weekend in Colorado Springs in open tryouts for the U.S. Women's National Team, U.S. Women's National A2 Program and U.S. Women's Junior National Team at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. According to a story on the NIU website, Wicinski's tryout "was a resounding success." "I …
Beth
1:04 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012
Good luck, tri-cities area bowl players! Make us proud!!! more ›