Category: Community
Supported by the selling of used gear, NIU Outdoor Adventures was able to raise funds to convert one of the racquetball courts in the Recreation Center to a bouldering room in May of 2021. The space has a 300 square-foot bouldering wall—constructed by Eldorado Climbing—training hangboards, a Nicros Hypergravity Isolation Training (HIT) system and a slackline. “It...
The Northern Illinois University School of Theatre and Dance presents Pedro Calderòn de la Barca’s 17th century masterpiece of the golden age of Spanish theater, “Life is a Dream” in the Sally Stevens Players Theatre in NIU’s Stevens Building, February 10-12 and 16-18. The production features beautiful, heightened language, spoken primarily in English, but also...
Zach Wahl-Alexander and Jenn Jacobs Project FLEX somehow continues to surprise Jenn Jacobs and Zach Wahl-Alexander. More than four years have passed since the associate professors in the NIU Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education launched their initiative to deliver structured physical activity and positive life lessons to young men living at Illinois Youth Centers...
When Shyann Beach wants a fresh and delicious meal, she doesn’t stop by the grocery or visit a local restaurant. Instead, the Director of Athletics Counseling heads straight to The Depot C-store at Holmes Student Center to pick up a Huskie Fresh meal kit. “The way everything is precut and measured makes them incredibly easy,...
‘More opportunity to help’ You’ll find NIU employees giving back in countless ways on campus, but they’re also making an impact in their communities. They’re volunteering at schools, supporting nonprofits and stocking food pantries. They’re helping others and making a difference. Because Huskies Give Back. A paid volunteering leave program at NIU, Huskies Give Back...
For nearly a decade NIU has been home to the Illinois P-20 Network – a partnership of educators, policymakers and researchers who work with learners across the lifespan, from newborns and toddlers to higher education and ongoing adult education. The network’s goal is to ensure that all Illinois residents benefit from the best possible learning...
Northern Illinois University has long been a leader in the field of early childhood education. The new Center for Early Learning Funding Equity (CELFE), in the Division of Outreach, Engagement and Regional Development, is helping to advance that work by studying and advancing funding equity so that every family has access to quality early childhood...
The Huskie family is growing by one small, adorable member. Meet Mission III, a three-month-old puppy who shares beautiful black-and-white markings and crystalline blue eyes with his mascot siblings, Mission I and II. Mission III comes from premier breeder Debra Debalys, who is based in British Columbia, Canada, and NIU mascot trainer Lisa Boland is...
Avalon String Quartet, ensemble-in-residence in the Northern Illinois University School of Music’s January 27 performance (7 p.m., Recital Hall) will feature music by Joseph Haydn and Johannes Brahms, and the world premiere of a piece for string quartet and narrator by prominent Chicago composer Stacy Garrop. Garrop’s piece, “For Such a Time as This” is...
In November, Dr. King Chung and five NIU audiology students joined forces with students and faculty from Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) in Brazil on a mission trip to Kraków, Poland, where they provided free hearing services for school children, members of a community center, and Ukrainian refugees at Krakow, Poland. The...
A movie more than a decade in the making will have its world premiere, Saturday, January 21 at 7 p.m. at DeKalb’s Egyptian Theatre. The NIU School of Theatre and Dance will present the original film production of Mark Twain’s “The $30,000 Bequest.” Filmed in 2011, the production was a collaboration that included faculty, students...
The NIU Jazz Orchestra is one of only 10 collegiate jazz programs invited to participate in the 2023 Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jack Rudin Jazz Championships in New York City. The competition is a two-day invitational, January 14-15. The championships are held throughout Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located on...
