Dave Hedin - 2009 NIU Board of Trustees Professor-Northern Illinois Huskies

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NIU enjoys an international reputation for its research program in experimental high energy physics, which seeks to indentify and understand the building blocks of nature.

Identifying the building blocks of the NIU program, however, is a much simpler task. It starts with David Hedin, who formed the physics departments experimental group more than two decades ago.

The physics professor has been conducting research at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory since 1976. In 1982, Hedin began working on what would evolve into DZero, one of two large and now world-famous experiments at the Batavia laboratory.

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