Thursday, April 14, 2016

Congratulations Melissa Burlingame on Receiving a Presidential Award for Excellence!

Four members of the Supportive Professional Staff (SPS) have been chosen to receive the university’s Presidential Awards for Excellence.

Recipients are Gregory P. Barker, director of Testing Services and Academic Affairs Research Support; Melissa Burlingame, current research associate in the Center for Governmental Studies and former program coordinator for the Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy; William C. McCoy, director of the BELIEF Program in the College of Business; and Mark McGowan, editorial associate in NIU Institutional Communications.

The quartet will be honored at a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 14, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. The awards ceremony begins at 2:30 p.m. Each will receive a plaque and $1,500 in appreciation for their outstanding contributions to NIU.

- See more at: http://www.niutoday.info/2016/04/11/sps-announces-recipients-of-2016-presidential-awards-for-excellence/#sthash.46EsM96N.dpuf