NIU home to two Fulbright fellowship winners Two NIU students will travel abroad for the coming academic year on fellowships through the highly competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

Matt Konfirst, 31, of West Chicago, a geology student working on his Ph.D., will travel to Germany to work with scientists on climate change research. Shari Meggs, 21, of Skokie, a graduating senior majoring in communication, will work as an English language teaching assistant in Hong Kong.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers fellowships for U.S. graduating college seniors, graduate students and artists to study abroad for one academic year.

New One Cards now available for faculty, staff
Eligible faculty and staff now can obtain their new NIU OneCards.

To get new IDs, members of the faculty and staff should bring their current NIU OneCards to the OneCard Office, located on the lower level of the Holmes Student Center across from the University Bookstore, from 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Lost ID charges will apply for failure to return current cards. Call 815-753-9569 for more information.

College of Education professor wins national award
A professor in NIU’s Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education has received a national award from a division of the American Counseling Association.

Debra Pender won the Group Practice Award from the Association for Specialists in Group Work this spring in recognition of her more than 20 years of facilitating crisis intervention groups. The honor also celebrates Pender’s statewide leadership in the field and her research into group process factors associated with critical incident stress debriefing.

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