Join us in welcoming back new and returning Huskies to the DeKalb community. NIU Move-In Day will take place on August 23 this year. Students will begin moving into the Gilbert, Grant, Neptune, Stevenson, and New Hall residence halls that day between 8 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Please be aware of heavier than normal traffic in the area, particularly on Annie Glidden Road. For …
The NIU Foundation surpassed it’s $250,000 goal for the very first Day of Giving event by raising over $770,600 from 1,402 donors nationwide. The money was raised by alumni, faculty and students who made donations to the NIU Day of Giving website. The donations support students, scholarships and programs at the university. The College of Business raked in over $175,000, …
DeKalb (WREX)- The Northern Illinois University Supermileage team took home first place in the Shell Eco-Marathon Competition earlier this month. The school says the team created a car that goes more than 1,500 miles on a single gallon of gas, that’s about the distance from DeKalb to California. The team won first place in the Internal Combustion Engine Prototype category. …
DeKALB — The track & field team is full of young athletes. These underclassmen have contributed top finishes and meet records in their short collegiate careers. Head Coach Connie Teaberry said she has faith in the team for the coming years as the athletes continue to grow. “The program right now is very young,” Teaberry said. “We have a lot of …
DeKALB — Undocumented students came out of the shadows to tell personal stories to students and faculty while reflecting on the hardships they face in America. DREAM Action NIU hosted its 6th annual Coming Out of the Shadows event in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium. Due to the rain and cold weather, the event didn’t hold a unity march as it …
DeKalb, IL. –The NIU Department of Communication is bringing three nights of student films to Cole Hall’s Jameson Auditorium with the 18th installment ofthe Reality Bytes Independent Student Film Festival, beginning at 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 9. The events are free and open to the public. Films screenings are also scheduled for Wednesday, April 10, beginning at 9 p.m. Producer …
DeKALB — Safe Passage’s Walk A Mile Fundraiser brought men, women and children to Sycamore High School to strut for a cause. Walk A Mile is an annual event held by Safe Passage, a local domestic violence shelter. The event has been hosted by Safe Passage since 2015, with other shelters holding similar events across the country as well. Attendees can …
Northern Illinois University junior Cornell Cox is not afraid to confront life’s big questions. In a conversation about his path to NIU and his choice of major, he brings up climate change and war, deep questions about how human behaviors have led to the major challenges facing the world today. He also discusses his love of teaching, his excitement about …
DeKALB, Ill. — Science education has never tasted so good. NIU received a $930,000 National Institutes of Health Science Education Partnership Award for a FoodMASTER initiative. FoodMASTER uses food as a tool to teach mathematics and science. The NIH grant aims to expand the existing FoodMASTER initiative science curriculum to K-12 teachers and educators throughout Illinois and nationally. FoodMASTER is already being …
DeKalb, Ill. — Already ranked among the top five in the nation for its specialty field of local government management, NIU’s Master of Public Administration program now has even more bragging rights. “NIU is the program to be a part of,” said Lynnea Erickson Laskowski, who graduated with a nonprofit management specialization in her M.P.A. from NIU in 2013. She now works as …