Honors Student Hovel Studies Salmon

Honors student Rachel Hovel on research boat

Honors Program student Rachel Hovel worked as a field researcher in Alaska the summer after her freshman year assisting with a project studying juvenile salmon habitat. Since then, the senior biology major has worked at the University of Colorado as part of a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program funded by the National Science Foundation; this research examined the impacts of land use on freshwater systems, using aquatic macroinvertebrate communities as an indicator. Read Student Profiles.


 

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Anne Winiarski presents in Washington D.C. NMU honors student D. Anne Winiarski recently traveled to Washington, D.C. to present research at the 38th annual Society for Neuroscience meeting.  Anne has been involved in research since she began her studies at NMU a year ago  working with Dr. Adam Prus in the psychopharmacology lab.
NCHC conference Hunter Harig, Stephanie Johnson, Andrea Ewasek and Kyle Schimek all of NMU’s Honors Program attended and presented at the National Collegiate Honors Conference in San Antonio, October 22-26, 2008. Read more.
NMU Graduates We congratulate the ten Honors Program students who graduated from Northern in 2008. List of Graduates
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Michael Broadway

Michael Broadway has been named interim program director for 2008-09. More info.


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