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Tag: Hononegah High School

ETRA graduate students join Fatih Demir to research brain engagement of readers

April 16, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Researchers in NIU’s Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment are preparing to study whether – and how – readers respond differently to “hard” news reports and emotional stories. Fatih Demir, an assistant professor of Instructional Technology, will use eye-tracking systems and

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Steve Builta departs for new challenges training, coordinating disaster responders

April 9, 2019 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter, ETRA

Three months after his 1984 graduation from Hononegah High School, Steve Builta arrived at NIU with plans to become a school psychologist. Even though he had enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, where he eventually would earn a bachelor’s

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A homecoming 40 years in the making: Lynn Gibson starts second career at NIU

October 2, 2018 Mark McGowan Alumni, Alumni eNewsletter, enewsletter, LEPF

During Lynn Gibson’s undergraduate years in the NIU College of Business, then housed inside Wirtz Hall, she lived directly across the street in the Timbercrest Apartments on the corner of Lucinda Avenue and Garden Road. Hers was Apartment 5, she knows for

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Self-advocacy: SEED professor partners with alumna to pilot student-driven transition plans

May 15, 2018 Mark McGowan Alumni, Alumni eNewsletter, enewsletter, SEED

Choosing a path for after high school is rarely easy for any young adult, and that naturally includes those teens with special needs. But for students with special needs at Hononegah High School in Rockton, Ill., those roads to “transition” are becoming

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