Category: Community
The NIU community is as strong, diverse and vibrant as ever, and we are counting on our community to help support NIU’s groundbreaking programs and hard-working students. To continue an annual tradition, the Huskies United Day of Giving begins on Wednesday, March 20, at 4:25 p.m. and ends at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, March 21. Over...
NIU Child Development and Family Center (CDFC) maintained the ExceleRate Illinois Gold Circle of Quality, a quality rating system for early childhood programs in Illinois that focuses on four areas: teaching and learning, family and community engagement, leadership and management, and qualifications and continuing education. “We go through the renewal process each year as a way to show...
On Feb. 3, NIU Esports partnered with the NASCAR Chicago Street Race team to welcome visitors of all ages to campus for the Rocket League Rev Up. The event included a free Rocket League tournament, drop-in game play and the chance to play the NASCAR Chicago Street Race simulator. “This was an awesome opportunity to...
Collaboration with ComEd and EPRI will produce vegetables – and data to improve regional food systems. In early December, a special delivery arrived behind NIU’s Anderson Hall. The 40-foot-by-8-foot box may look like a standard shipping container, but inside you’ll find a complete, self-contained hydroponic farming system. Dubbed “the Hydropod,” this container garden was provided...
For more than 40 years the world renowned duo of trombonist Christian Lindberg and pianist Roland Pöntinen have performed around the world and recorded more than 20 albums together. On Tuesday, January 16 they will perform in concert at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in NIU’s Music Building. This will not be Lindberg’s first visit to...
A new partnership between Meta and Northern Illinois University engages local high school students from underrepresented groups in university programming that will develop their skills in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). “NIU is pleased to partner with Meta to ensure that students who have been historically underserved and overlooked will have exciting opportunities to...
Food Truck Wednesdays offered a fun opportunity for the NIU community to gather this fall, bringing back the lively campus vibe so central to the college experience – and allowing one NIU alum to give back. The MLK Commons has long been a central gathering spot for the NIU community, but the closing of Normal...
It’s never too early to learn about philanthropy. That was the case when NIU’s Child and Development and Family Center (CDFC) held a birthday cake kit drive this fall to benefit the Huskie Food Pantry. “At the CDFC we have three center-wide pyramid model expectations: we take care of ourselves, we take care of others...
The Northern Illinois University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will welcome best-selling author and educator, Eddie Glaude Jr. to the Rebuilding Democracy Lecture Series at 7 p.m. CST Nov. 8 in Altgeld Auditorium. The program is free and open to the public. The event will feature a discussion between Glaude Jr. and Dean Robert...
Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian Greg Grandin will present “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America” during the Department of History’s annual Lincoln Lecture, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 in Altgeld Auditorium. The presentation, rescheduled from its original September date, is free and open...
To kick off NIU’S Edible Campus initiative this past spring, NIU students and faculty planted nearly 100 garden beds across campus, plus a one-third acre market garden near Anderson Hall—and now they’re reaping a plentiful harvest. In this brief accompanying video, you can learn (and see) more about NIU’s expansive Edible Campus, a living laboratory...
This year, WNIJ 89.5 FM, northern Illinois’ local NPR affiliate and the broadcasting arm of Northern Illinois University, brought home six awards from the Illinois News Broadcasters Association in September, including three first place “Crystal Mic” awards. These awards are just the most recent in the station’s winning streak, and they’re the result of a...
