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Student Involvement & Leadership Development will celebrate all Leadership Academy members with an end-of-the semester celebration. The Leadership Academy is a three-tiered, self-paced leadership program through which students are able to gain leadership skills, meet others and build their resumes. Applications for membership are available online. Leadership Academy members invited from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m....

Are you a proactive problem solver who wants to help shape the teaching and learning experience at NIU in an open and inclusive forum? NIU’s Student Advisory Council on Learning Outcomes needs you! The group provides students a voice in every level of the assessment process and to deepen the conversation about assessment practices at...

Famously dubbed the “God particle,” the Higgs boson took thousands of scientists nearly five decades to discover, at a cost that one journalist estimated at $13.25 billion. Over the past 18 months, there has been plenty of hype about “the Higgs,” beginning with the boson’s discovery in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN...

Have you ever wanted to know what it was like to work in a particular career? What it means to be “on the job, all day, every day?” Here is your chance. University Honors, in partnership with the NIU Alumni Association, is offering NIU Honors students an exclusive opportunity to shadow an NIU alumnus for...

What a great week to be a Huskie! On Monday, NIU saluted its armed forces veterans with a solemn Veterans Day ceremony at the flagpole near the East Lagoon. These heroes are among our important communities living among us on campus and in the surrounding area, and our veteran community enjoys an excellent academic and...

The holiday season is just around the corner: Don’t wait for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It’s time to shop Fair Trade Wednesday and Thursday. NIU’s Sociology Student Organization is hosting its annual Fair Trade Gift Sale in partnership with Just Goods from Rockford. A portion of the proceeds supports the Department of Sociology’s Alternative...

Motorola Solutions, Inc.  announced that Northern Illinois University graduate Gino A. Bonanotte, acting chief financial officer and corporate vice president, has been named chief financial officer and executive vice president. Bonanotte, whose appointment is effective immediately and who will continue to report to Greg Brown, chairman and CEO of Motorola Solutions, was named to the...

Director Ron Carter and the legendary NIU Jazz Ensemble will perform its fall concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. Rodney Whitaker, an internationally renowned bassist and Mack Avenue recording artist, is the guest artist. The performance is the last fall concert for Carter, an...

NIU’s Fall 2013 Dance Concert is all about love. Opening Thursday, Nov. 21, the School of Theatre and Dance will present its first dance production of their 2013-2014 theatre season and feature performance pieces that present the many sides of being in love. In order to more fully explore this complicated theme, faculty members Judy...

President Doug Baker unveiled a bold plan for Northern Illinois University’s future Wednesday, saying that he will work to dramatically expand internship opportunities, try to match every student with an alumni mentor and endeavor to ensure that every graduate is employed within six months of graduation. Baker’s comments came during ceremonies marking his inauguration as...

New art work and research by current full- and part-time faculty of the NIU School of Art is coming to the NIU Art Museum. The School of Art Faculty Biennial takes place from Tuesday, Nov. 19, through Saturday, Feb. 15. An opening reception for the exhibition is scheduled from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov....

Volunteers are needed to judge student papers or projects for the 52nd annual Northern Illinois Regional History Fair, scheduled Saturday, March 1, 2014, on campus. Each year, students in middle school and high school write research papers, design websites, create exhibits and documentaries and performing original skits that deal with topics of Illinois history. In...