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Northern Today - June 9, 2008

Dhiman ChakrabortyHigh school teachers, students
will build cosmic ray detectors

A group of high school teachers and students will arrive on campus today for a weeklong study that promises to be out of this world.

The Department of Physics is hosting the Institute for Teachers and Students Studying Cosmic Rays. The 10 to 15 participants are associated with a QuarkNet center run jointly by NIU and Argonne National Laboratory. The objective is to infuse cutting-edge science into high school curriculums.

Funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, QuarkNet is a professional teacher development program.

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Gary Glenn sworn inGary Glenn sworn in as member
of National Council for Humanities

Gary D. Glenn, a distinguished teaching professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at NIU, was sworn last month at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., to serve on the National Council for the Humanities.

The council is as an advisory board to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Glenn’s nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

A resident of DeKalb, Glenn has taught a wide array of political science courses over more than four decades at NIU, where he earned a reputation for being among the university’s top teachers.

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