Category: Alumni
NIU marketing alumnus Dean DeBiase and billionaire Donald Trump reminisced a bit over old times Sunday, April 8, when DeBiase appeared on Trump’s show, “The Celebrity Apprentice.” DeBiase was there on behalf of Entertainment.com, where he serves as chairman and CEO. The 1980 College of Business alum challenged the show’s contestants to create a 60-second...
Northern Illinois University College of Business alumnus Dean DeBiase will appear Sunday, April 8, on NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice.” The last time DeBiase was connected with “The Apprentice,” he was the one at the head of the table telling contestants, “You’re fired.” That was in 2004, when he and two other alums filled the role...
An April 3 panel discussion on wrongful convictions gave law students at Northern Illinois University a powerful lesson about the long, and sometimes twisting, road to justice. Delivering that lesson was Juan Rivera, who spent 19 years of his life behind bars for a crime he did not commit – the rape and murder of...
Team Light Up Africa is a step closer to its goal of providing cheap, affordable electricity to the developing world. Their portable generator/energy storage device, the Zoom Box, was selected as one of 200 semifinalist in the Dell Social Innovation Challenge. The competition drew more than 1,700 submissions. NIU’s four students are hoping to launch...
The NIU College of Law’s Criminal Law Society will host an Innocence Panel at 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, in the Francis X. Riley Courtroom of Swen Parson Hall inside the NIU College of Law. Panelists will discuss the case of Juan Rivera, who spent nearly 20 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections wrongfully...
Seven home games, including non-conference tilts versus Iowa and Kansas and six Saturday contests, highlight the NIU football 2012 schedule released Thursday by NIU and the Mid-American Conference. Northern Illinois, the defending Mid-American Conference champions, will play seven home games – six at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb and one at Chicago’s Soldier Field – for the second...
NIU’s Student Association will host the inaugural Greek Unity Stroll Competition at 7 p.m. Friday, March 30. Strolling is a type of judged, choreographed line dance to be performed by each group. Fraternities and sororities will compete for prizes. A dance party will follow the stroll competition. Tickets cost $5 for the entire event, which...
The NIU Department of Communication is preparing to raise the curtain on its popular Reality Bytes Independent Student Film Festival at the Jameson Auditorium, located inside the university’s newly renovated Cole Hall. Free and open to the public, the 11th annual festival will feature student-film screenings from 9 to 11 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, and...
Since it was created four decades ago, the Center for Black Studies has woven itself tightly into NIU’s fabric. It started as a place where students and faculty can develop courses for the new minor, Black Studies. It also was a place for students and faculty to discuss issues that were going on both on-...
Six students majoring in Community Leadership and Civic Engagement (CLCE) at Northern Illinois University spent spring break in the nation’s capital learning more about advocacy, nonprofit organizations and the political process. “The program was designed to provide students with real-world, practical experiences that reinforce what they learn in the classroom,” said Ben Bingle, program coordinator...
Can one be a fan without a text to be a fan of? What happens when fandom creates a text, and then poaches that same text? Paul Booth, an assistant professor of new media and technology in the College of Communication at DePaul University, will visit the NIU campus at 1 p.m. Friday, April 20,...
The Altgeld Auditorium at NIU showcased an impressive cast of influential women Thursday, March 22, for the 2012 Leadership Summit. In celebration of Women’s History Month, the event was sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta, in partnership with Fifth Third Bank, and focused on female executives and entrepreneurs who have established themselves as strong-willed and successful...
