NIU Today

In the heart of Crystal Lake, Illinois, lies a story of entrepreneurial spirit and culinary passion. Jake Clemment, the owner of Country Donuts, stands as a testament to the transformative journey from a community college student to a successful business owner. His story, deeply rooted in his hometown of Cary, Illinois, unfolds with the nuances...

Baby, it’s cold outside. But thankfully, it is nice and warm inside buildings throughout NIU’s campus. This doesn’t happen automatically. There is a team working behind the scenes to make sure classrooms, residence hall rooms, offices and study spaces are not only climate controlled, but also in proper working order and suitable for use. Tom...

“I love it. This is a very welcoming, open place.” Tony Kasa is a sophomore at NIU, with a double major in Mathematical Sciences and Journalism. Kasa discovered the Mathematics Assistance Center (MAC) during his freshman year and says, it has been a great asset in his learning process, ever since. “The people here are...

When you meet NIU Management Professor Mahesh Subramony, you can tell he is a people person. Personable and engaging, he attempts to connect with each of his dozens of undergraduate and MBA students on a “human level” each semester. Having won multiple undergraduate and graduate teaching awards, he is clearly a favorite instructor among students....

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...

Zachary Wahl-Alexander and Jenn Jacobs. Project FLEX has secured a five-year, $2.55 million grant from the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) to continue and expand its work providing positive interventions with youth who are in secure custody of the state. The NIU Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education initiative, launched in 2018 by faculty...

History Professor Damián Fernández has written a book that sheds light on how local aristocracies along the Atlantic river valleys of western Iberia lived through the ebb and flow of empire and kingdoms in late antiquity. Fernández will deliver a talk on the book – entitled “Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E., Empire...

Northern Illinois University received $158,531 in U.S. Department of Labor funding to promote workplace safety, health training and education. With this grant, employers and employees without high amounts of funding can receive free mental health and suicide prevention training. This will be targeted towards small businesses, as well as at-risk and hard-to-reach workers in the...

The holidays were a little brighter for residents at two local long-term care facilities thanks to a group of  Huskies from the NIU student organization, Music and Memory. Both Lincolnshire Memory Care in Sycamore and Aperion Care in DeKalb were filled with smiles, laughter and the sound of music in December when residents performed a...

Wastewater testing stations installed across campus to detect outbreaks of COVID-19, are now helping NIU keep tabs on two other respiratory diseases, Influenza A and the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). “Carriers of those diseases (and many others) “shed” the virus through the gastrointestinal tract,” says Barrie Bode, Director of Wastewater Surveillance Testing, who oversees the...

NIU Associate Professor Nicole LaDue recently served as a panelist for a national effort to improve STEM teaching through more equitable and effective approaches to instruction. On December 5th, LaDue provided input on a draft report for the Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM). The report, entitled...

When Casey Walters, ’19, M.S. ’20, was growing up in St. Charles, Illinois, she had no idea what technology developers did. But her time at NIU helped her to find her passion for information systems and coding. “I never had a great answer for the, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’...