Category: Community
Once again, Huskies United to do the impossible! Together, our alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the University brought in $1,104,426 during our annual Huskies United day of giving, on June 22-23. This total exceeded expectations and topped last year’s total giving, when just over $1 million was raised. It only took the Huskie Nation 1,895...
Short Video Previews Excitement of this Year’s Events In less than 115 days, the Huskie Nation will come home to DeKalb for the 115th Homecoming to celebrate what it means to be part of the NIU family. This year’s Homecoming will blend tradition with new events and activities for all parts of the NIU community,...
As NIU looks toward its upcoming Huskies United day of giving on June 22 and 23, it makes sense to invest in the areas that are expanding the fastest. “The Latino Resource Center (LRC) is serving a growing population, and we would like to create a robust community where every single student learns and engages...
By the time Connie Storey began working as the assistant director of programming and communication for the NIU Honors Program, she had a good idea of the challenges that faced many hard-working Huskies, as well as the opportunities afforded to diligent students. After earning her B.S. in management in 2003 and returning to campus to...
On June 1, WNIJ 89.5 launched WNIJ.org/Hola, a new digital community with an events calendar, news and an opinion series geared toward Spanish speakers of all levels in DeKalb County. WNIJ.org/Hola features local and state news stories, recipes and opinion pieces in both Spanish and English, as well as a regularly updated playlist of Spanish-language...
Huskies, come on, you Huskies! We are counting on our community, once again, to come together to make a difference during this year’s Huskies United day of giving, which begins the afternoon of Wednesday, June 22, and run until 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, June 23. Traditionally, this is a day when NIU alumni, staff, faculty,...
Northern Public Radio – the broadcast arm of NIU – is increasing coverage of agriculture, water and environmental issues with a new Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk. The coverage will look at climate change and environmental issues through a local lens and will be aired on WNIJ 89.5, online at wnij.org and through...
NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology(CEET) congratulates the teams that were presented with awards from the Engineering and Technology Alumni Society on Senior Design Day on Friday, May 6, 2022 at the NIU Convocation Center. More than 1,300 visitors were present to see the showcase of the Senior Design program, which is a course...
Brooke Benford is majoring in biomedical engineering, but on April 15, she showed off her culinary skills. Along with fellow John Henrik Clarke Honor Society members Britiany Wilson, Imani Jones, Jacy Rogers, Nina Tackett, Kianna Graves and Daija Hammonds, the NIU junior spent the afternoon cooking on campus so that others could enjoy a delicious...
When Chad Glover helped Northern Illinois University create the 40TUDE student consulting teams, he believed that they could achieve the twin goals of giving students real-world experience while providing a service to the community. Now, as community coordinator of Opportunity DeKalb, he is seeing that vision come to fruition. Opportunity DeKalb is a nonprofit community...
Spend a day being amazed by more than 150 senior engineering students as they display the capstone projects they’ve been working on all year. On May 6, the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) invites the public to attend its annual Senior Design Demonstration Day at the NIU Convocation Center from noon to 4...
Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (Illinois District 14) visited NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) on Monday, April 25 to learn about its cleanroom laboratory, also called Microelectronics Research and Development Laboratory (MRDL). University officials say the cleanroom lab offers many benefits to the northern Illinois region in the form of education, workforce training and...
