Category: Community
NIU’s Student Association will welcome several Republicans from the Illinois House of Representatives to campus Wednesday morning. The GOP state lawmakers will conduct a news conference at 10 a.m. in the Sky Room of the Holmes Student Center to promote a package of bills that aim to provide college affordability options. Legislators include Reps. Bob...
Health Enhancement, NIU’s health promotion program in the Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, has announced the first recipient of the Toni Lotsof Internship. Sarah Blackstone, a graduate student in Public Health and a lifelong DeKalb resident, is working this summer with “Live Healthy DeKalb County.” The initiative is a collaboration between Kishwaukee Hospital,...
The Northern Illinois University Board of Trustees elected five new officers during its June 20 meeting, selecting John R. Butler as its new chair. Butler, who has served on the board since 2008, is a founding partner in the Chicago-based strategic consulting firm Butler & Anderson, LLC, and the director of Communication and Strategic Initiatives for the Aurora-based Painters District...
The Northern Illinois University Board of Trustees, in issuing a proclamation at the start of its June 20 business meeting, conferred John G. Peters with status as president emeritus, effective July 1. Known as the students’ president, Peters has led the university over the past 13 years. “NIU and its Board of Trustees have benefitted...
Northern Illinois athletics has a pair of opportunities for fans to meet, greet and mingle with members of the NIU football family this summer as the Huskies host their fifth annual Football 101 Women’s Clinic on Wednesday, July 24 and the 18th annual Brigham-Novak Gridiron Classic golf outing on Friday, July 26. Football 101, at...
Accompanied by their teachers, a dozen high school students visited DeKalb this week to participate in the 2013 QuarkNet Summer Institute hosted by the NIU Department of Physics. QuarkNet, founded in 1995, is a professional teacher development program funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy. Its goal is to involve...
Interested in hosting an international student? The ELS Language Center in DeKalb is in search of host homes for international students during the 2013-2014 academic school year. In return, host home volunteers will receive a $600 stipend every four weeks. ELS students come from all regions of the world to increase their knowledge of the...
Northern Illinois University junior Communications major Richard Bennett–a former Army serviceman from Homer Glen who risked his life to save another’s during battle–is among 90 finalists for Major League Baseball and People Magazine’s “Tribute for Heroes” campaign. The DeKalb resident served in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, and during a deployment to Afghanistan, his unit...
Chair of the Northern Illinois University Board of Trustees Cherilyn G. Murer participated in the 2013 Democratic Governors Association Conference as a healthcare panelist during the association’s annual conference June 12 at the Hotel Allegro in Chicago. The conference featured three panel discussions on the following topics: Manufacturing – Revitalizing American Manufacturing and Infrastructure Healthcare –...
Applications for the Supportive Professional Staff (SPS) Scholarship Fund are now available. The SPS Scholarship Fund provides scholarship support to children and grandchildren of Supportive Professional Staff employees at NIU. It is intended to provide financial assistance to an SPS dependent while rewarding the talents and achievements of the student. The scholarship has been funded...
Imagine taking classes by video game. You wouldn’t just try to get to the next level or beat the game for the fun of it, you would play to ace a test and pass a class. Researchers are harnessing that motivation to play and win video games to teach new and challenging concepts to learners...
Northern Illinois University director of Scholarships Anne Hardy presented scholarship awards to 26 local high school students at the DeKalb High School senior awards ceremony. The total investment in scholarships for these local recipients over the next four years is valued at $460,000. Twelve students received an NIU DeKalb County Scholarship, which awards local students...
