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Video provides a unique opportunity for creating shared experiences for students to reflect upon and discuss in the classroom. So says Lee Shumow, a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the NIU College of Education’s Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations. Shumow will present “Through the Lens of Experience: Using Video to Help Young Professionals Develop,”...

Northern Illinois baseball took on Illinois in game one of its doubleheader at Southern Illinois’ Abe Martin Field. In a 7-0 deficit, the Huskies rallied back in the eighth and ninth inning but fell to the Illini, 7-2. Northern Illinois left eight runners on base against Illinois, totaling all of them from the fourth inning...

Teresa Tanner, chief  human resource officer for Fifth Third Bank, will be the keynote speaker at the 2012 Leadership Summit, scheduled for Thursday, March 22, in the Altgeld Hall Auditorium. The event, which will be hosted by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc, in partnership with Fifth Third Bank, is part of Women’s History Month activities...

Most NIU employees will receive a 2.5 percent salary increment in the March 30 payroll, thanks to a March 1 vote of the Board of Trustees. The modest base increment is retroactive to Jan. 1, 2012. Employees at the higher end of the salary curve will receive less than 2.5 percent. This month’s boost in...

NIU’s Student Financial Aid Office anticipates the production of award notifications within the next week. Illinois colleges and universities have received an announcement from the Illinois Student Assistance Commission regarding an early suspension of Monetary Award Program (MAP) awards. Last year’s suspension date occurred toward the end of March;  an even earlier date is anticipated...

The Illinois Associated Press Broadcasters Association recently announced winners in the 2011 Journalism Excellence Contest. WNIJ (89.5-FM) reporter Susan Stephens was named “Best Newswriter” and took first place in the “Hard News Feature” category in the downstate radio division of the Illinois Associated Press Broadcasters Association 2011 Journalism Excellence contest. Judges evaluated a variety of...

For the second consecutive week and third time this season, Northern Illinois sophomore Megan Melendez has been named the Mid-American Conference Specialist of the Week, as the league office announced the weekly awards Tuesday. Melendez was honored after her performances on balance beam and uneven parallel bars Saturday at the EMU Eagle Invitational, a quadrangular...

In Springfield … Friday, March 9, was the deadline to get substantive bills reported out of committees in the chamber of origin, so it was a very busy week. On March 6, House Bill 5745, sponsored by Rep. Brandon Phelps, passed out of the House Agriculture & Conservation Committee. This bill would allow for concealed-carry in...

Version 2.0 of NIU Mobile hit Android and Apple app stores this week and adds some highly anticipated new features to the university’s free smartphone application. “One of the top requests we had is to bring the Advanced Geospatial Lab’s Huskie Bus Tracker to the app,” said Jennice O’Brien, director of Web Communications. “Now, with...

De Mujer a Mujer: Latina Assistance Program, part of the Latino Resource Center, will host the “Latinas Rompiendo Barreras, Becoming Tomorrow’s Leaders” conference from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 30. The conference, which takes place in the Regency Room of the Holmes Student Center, is aimed at providing young Latina students with the...

NIU doctoral student Kristin Stanford has received the 2012 Wildlife Diversity Conservation Award at this year’s Wildlife Diversity Conference, sponsored by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Wildlife. While a graduate student at NIU, Stanford worked with garter snakes and was asked by her mentor, Richard King, a long-time NIU watersnake researcher, to...

The NIU women’s basketball team is pointed in the right direction despite a season-ending, hard-fought 72-62 loss to Toledo in the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament on Thursday afternoon at Quicken Loans Arena. NIU (14-17, 6-10 MAC) entered the game as the No. 7 seed and had already won two games in the tournament...