Northern Illinois University: Third annual SROP cohort selected




NIU’s Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning has announced the 2015 cohort of Summer Research Opportunities Program participants.
Thirteen undergraduate students have been chosen to engage in a full-time, intensive research program from June 15 until Aug. 7. These students will work to design, propose and complete research or artistry projects, as well as attend various events and activities on campus and within the NIU community. Students’ disciplines vary from chemistry, history and psychology to mechanical engineering, business administration and visual communications.


In addition, these students will work closely with 10  talented NIU faculty members. These mentors include professors, department chairs, directors of campus centers and recipients of National Institutes of Health research grants.
New this year, the NIU Latino Oral History Project will pilot its first cohort in partnership with OSEEL.
Kristin Huffine and Simon Weffer-Elizondo will support a team of four students to document local experience with immigration from the late 1920s up to the present. Faculty and students are especially interested in interviewing the earliest immigrants to the Chicago region who came during the late 1920s, just after the Mexican Revolution. The NIU Latino Oral History Project is also part of a larger partnership between NIU and the University of Guadalajara.

SROP and NIU Latino Oral History Project participants will present the culmination of their projects Friday, Aug. 7, at the Summer Research Symposium in Altgeld Hall. This event is open to all undergraduate students conducting or have completed faculty-mentored research or artistry projects within the last academic year (2014-15).
- See more at: www.niutoday.info

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