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Noteworthy at Northeastern: Raising money for scholarships
Dust off your golf clubs—the NEIU Foundation’s biggest scholarship fundraiser of the year is coming up! Find out how to sign up for the Chuck Kane Scholarship Golf Event featuring former Chicago Bulls great Bob Love, check out the latest photos of The Nest residence hall and watch the first video in a new series featuring President Sharon Hahs and Provost Richard Helldobler.
A Breakout Star in Biology
Phu Duong’s career in biology is well underway.
After successfully defending his master’s thesis at Northeastern Illinois University over the summer, he has begun a Ph.D. program in Cell and Molecular Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There, he hopes to become involved in the field of epigenetics, which is the study of changes in gene activity that are not caused by changes in the DNA sequence. Translation: The guy is smart.
A Little Empathy Goes A Long Way
Every morning after breakfast, Chielezona Eze, associate professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University, spends three hours reading and writing. “Those are holy hours,” Eze said.
When Research Grabs International Headlines
Mass shootings are contagious.
That was the headline-grabbing conclusion of a research project that Maryam Khan began working on when she was a senior at Northeastern Illinois University. Almost as soon as the paper was published by PLoS ONE journal in July 2015, lead researcher Sherry Towers’ phone began to ring with calls from news outlets such as NBC, NPR and The Washington Post.