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Northern Illinois senior setter Kristin Hoffman was named one of 30 candidates for the women’s volleyball 2011 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, the organization announced Thursday. To be eligible for the award, Hoffman had to be an NCAA Division I senior and have worthy accomplishments in four areas of excellence: community, classroom, character and competition. An...

When the new DeKalb High School first opens its doors to students Tuesday, Sept. 6, every member of the Barb family will see what District 428 Board of Education President Tom Matya already sees. “What a wonderful asset this (District 428-NIU) partnership is for the DeKalb community,” Matya said recently as he joined his school...

Who’s up for a game of tag? Facebook tag, that is. NIU’s social media team is encouraging everyone on campus who’s captured by the cameras of NIU photographers to find their pictures on the NIU Facebook page and tag them. And, should they happen to spot any faces of their friends while they’re visiting, they...

Student, parents, faculty and staff can stay on top of campus safety online. The NIU website offers important and useful information that students will need daily, in stormy weather and during occasional emergencies, said Kathy Buettner, Vice President for the Division of University Relations. The page can be found at http://www.niu.edu/emergencyinfo/index.shtml. Within the website is...

The Rev. Arra M. Garab, a retired NIU English professor and former chaplain of the university’s police department, died Monday, Aug. 22, in Rockford. He was 81. Garab began teaching at NIU in 1966. Five years later he became a full professor. The classes he taught before his 1995 retirement included rhetoric, English composition, poetry...

Christopher Jones, associate vice provost for University Honors at Northern Illinois University,  has returned from a trip to Taiwan this month where he and nine other senior U.S. scholars and researchers discussed security relations between the United States, Taiwan and China. Jones, a professor of political science, was selected as the Midwest region representative.  He and...

NIU’s Community Dance School, sponsored by the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, begins its fall 12-week session Monday, Sept. 12. Classes meet weekly through Dec. 5. Instruction is offered for ages 4 through teen and adult. Classes include creative movement, pre-ballet, ballet, pointe, tap, jazz hip hop, Irish step, ballroom, Latin and swing. Adult...

After a highly successful year, the Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning has announced that its annual report is now available online. As an outgrowth of the Great Journeys Strategic Plan, OSEEL strives to engage students in their education through service, research and learning. The annual report provides an overview of OSEEL’s unique and...

Student in the NIU Honors Program is launching a new service project called “Birthday Boxes,” and they are looking to the community for help. Honors students are now collecting and stockpiling supplies that will be used to create “birthdays in a box” for children in need in DeKalb County and surrounding areas. These boxes will...

Looking for love? Think you’ve found that right one? How do you tell if they’re a lover — or a loser? Known as “America’s Real-Life Hitch,” David Coleman (aka “The Dating Doctor”) is coming to NIU to challenge his audience to make the most of their healthy relationships and rethink their unhealthy ones. NIU’s Division...

The Northern Illinois volleyball team was chosen Tuesday to win both the Mid-American Conference regular season and MAC Tournament titles as the league released its 2011 MAC Volleyball Preseason Poll, as voted on by the league’s head coaches. Senior setter Kristin Hoffman and sophomore outside hitter Lauren Wicinski were also selected to the MAC’s first...

Northern Illinois senior quarterback Chandler Harnish continues to see his name added to the lists of the top quarterbacks in the nation this preseason as he was one of 31 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) quarterbacks named Monday to the Manning Award Watch List. The Manning Award was created by the Allstate Sugar Bowl in...