Tony Pozdol didn’t exactly launch his college career as standout scholar.

Tannika Moore is excited to help students on their path toward success beyond high school.

Associate Professor of History Mateo Farzaneh is principal of the NEIU Foundation’s Mossadegh Initiative.

Anthony Smith is focused on cancer research, not exactly the career goal you might expect from a man who earned his associate degree in Automotive Technology.

In the advertising world, no television ad is as prestigious as a Super Bowl commercial.

Northeastern Illinois University alumna Sylwia Zalinska (B.S. ’18 Psychology) and her sister, Aneta (B.S. Marketing, expected Fall ’20), co-founded a shop that has been featured on a national talk show and sold out an entire line of products for the 2020 holiday season.

Victoria Valentine always knew she wanted to be a teacher, but it wasn’t until she volunteered at a summer camp during sixth grade that she realized she wanted to pursue special education.

While this case study is ongoing, it certainly looks promising—and there are many more where it came from. In the six years since its launch, Northeastern’s Student Center for Science Engagement is proving to be a valuable and versatile resource for hundreds of students in the science, technology, engineering and math disciplines. The goal is not only to graduate those students, but also to provide them with a holistic preparation for their post-graduation lives, whether that’s in industry, government agency or academia.

If you ask Michael Angelo Batio about achieving success, he’ll tell you it boils down to one thing: choosing to finish. And he would know.

Dr. Jon Hageman, Associate Professor in Anthropology, has been appointed Research Associate at the Chicago Field Museum, in recognition of his work with the museum's Searle Herbarium. Dr. Hageman also received a National Science Foundation grant from the area of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (Archeaology-Senior Research Program) to complete an online Mesoamerican ethnobotanical database.