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NIU President Doug Baker
Last weekend, Northern Illinois University and the City of DeKalb hosted the Illinois High School Association state football championships. Our university and community welcomed more than 30,000 visitors Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving for a football marathon: four championship high school football games each day. I am pleased to report that the event was a...
Greg Long
Northern Illinois University’s first-ever Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – Perspectives on Disability – came to a successful close Nov. 17. Led by Presidential Teaching Professor Greg Long of the School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders, the 10-week experience  was a streamlined version of the for-credit AHRS 200, a general education course titled, “Disability in...
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The Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning’s 17 Themed Learning Communities (TLCs) have been getting out of the classroom and hitting the road to connect their educational lessons to real life experiences. A TLC consists of two to three general education courses taken in conjunction to examine a common theme across the disciplines. Faculty...
NIU Commencement: December 2012
NIU will hold commencement ceremonies Saturday, Dec. 14, and Sunday, Dec. 15, inside the NIU Convocation Center, 1525 W. Lincoln Hwy. Participants in the ceremonies should assemble in Victor E. Court at least one hour before each ceremony begins. Late arrivals are not guaranteed participation in their ceremony. Saturday, Dec. 14 – 4 p.m. Graduate...
Northern Now cover
What do a free app, a sports practice center, and the oldest intact primate skeleton have in common? They all have an NIU connection and are highlighted in the winter issue of Northern Now. The Northern Now mobile app is designed to make your life easier. Enjoy all the content from the print edition of...
Thomas Bouril
NIU has finally broken through. Thomas Bouril, senior University Honors student and history major, is the first Huskie ever selected to interview for a chance to receive a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. As a finalist, Bouril was invited to spend a weekend in Chicago to compete for the chance to earn a Master of Letters in History...
NIU offers students the ability to learn how to create their own mobile apps in a series of courses offered through the Department of Computer Science. Courses such as CSCI 321, CSCI 322 and CSCI 323 teach students how to write apps for the iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and other mobile device platforms. NIU’s College...
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Northern Illinois University is now offering a new academic program that will put some undergraduates on the fast track to earn a law degree. The six-year Accelerated Law Degree program will enable designated political science majors to shave a year’s worth of time and expense off the typical seven years needed to earn both bachelor’s...
Harry and Jaymie Simmon join Anthony Roberts.
The 2014 cohort of NIU Research Rookies was introduced Monday in ceremonies at Altgeld Hall, outlining their participation in research projects that will tackle issues ranging from curing cancer to canceling out the noise of snoring. Now entering its fourth year, Research Rookies provides a select group of freshmen, sophomores and first-year transfer students the...
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Sgt. Rebecca Hooks of the Illinois State Police Crime Scene Services Command will speak from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, in the Wirtz 101 auditorium. Hooks is the guest of the Medical Laboratory Sciences program. Topics of discussion include crime scene investigation, forensic pathology and bloodstain pattern analysis. Part of the College of...
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NIU President Doug Baker has chosen to continue the annual holiday luncheon tradition. President Baker and First Lady Dana Stover invite the campus to a complimentary lunch from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. For more information, call (815) 753-1999 or email ellena@niu.edu.
The American Association of Teachers of German is recognizing Katharina Barbe, an associate professor of German and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Northern Illinois University, for her many contributions. In late November, Barbe was presented with the AATG/Goethe-Institut Certificate of Merit during the AATG annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. The...
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