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As high school science teachers return to their classrooms to begin a new school year, scholars from NIU are urging them to talk more to girls. Otherwise, the College of Education researchers warn, the United States will struggle to meet its scientific and technological ambitions for the future. Science teachers spend 39 percent more class...
The Northern Illinois University football team added another appearance to its 2011 broadcast schedule as Fox College Sports will televise the Huskies’ Sept. 10 contest at Kansas, the network announced Thursday. Kick off remains 6 p.m. at Kivisto Field at Memorial Stadium. The Huskies, who are led by first-year head coach Dave Doeren, will have...
The 2010 season was a magical one in many ways as the Huskies won their first 11 matches, posted 27 wins for the first time since 1998, sold out Victor E. Court for the first time, featured two All-Americans, and made an appearance in the Mid-American Conference championship for the first time since 2001. However,...
Two additional contractors have been selected for the northwest Illinois project designed to bring a reliable high-speed broadband network to a nine-county region. Illinois Fiber Resources Group (iFiber), an Illinois not-for-profit organization, has selected Aldridge Electric, which partnered with Kelso-Burnett to provide a joint proposal to build the network throughout Boone, LaSalle, Ogle, Stephenson and...
In Washington, D.C. … Now that Congress and the president have agreed to a plan to reduce spending and the federal deficit, we are awaiting the details of which federal programs will be reduced and by how much. Congress is on a four-week recess, returning after Labor Day. THE MOST IMMEDIATE REACTION to the recent...
NIU’s Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning (OSEEL) is launching the Huskies Service Scholars Program. The program is part of a 10-state initiative led by the Midwest Campus Compact to integrate civic engagement into the college experience and support the higher education goals of young adults through community service. To do this, the Huskies...
Members of NIU’s Operating Staff combined business with pleasure during their annual StaffFest luncheon held July 28. About 900 employees and retirees who attended the luncheon collected $840 in donations for the American Red Cross. They also collected and donated shopping bags full of toothpaste, soap, combs, shaving cream and other items. The Red Cross will...
Turns out “Watch List” season is not quite over for the 2011 Northern Illinois Huskies. After a July in which four Northern Illinois players earned eight recognitions on preseason awards watch lists, NIU junior safety and return specialist Tommy Davis added his name to that group Monday when he was one of 50 players named...
The U.S. stock market took a beating Thursday, and investors’ jitters have some justification — but perhaps only in the short term, according to Khan Mohabbat, a professor of economics at Northern Illinois University. “Investors certainly are worried a great deal about where to put their money right now,” Mohabbat says. Among the key reasons...
A pair of NIU graduate students who are studying nutrition and dietetics showed customers of Aurora’s farmers market last week that eating healthy can be easy, tasty and fun. With fruits and vegetables donated from vendors, students Jessica Harris and Megan Laurent made smoothies, peach salsa and other treats. “Having the students there was a...
When they return to the classroom this month, Rockford high school teachers will be better equipped to improve their students’ literacy skills thanks to a team of NIU faculty members and doctoral students. That team – 12 members in all – worked with 236 high school teachers in a two-week intensive seminar this summer. The...
A Northern Illinois University chemist is part of an international team of scientists whose work might someday crack open cold-case files. The scientists are developing a new fingerprinting method that could make it possible to recover previously unusable or undetected prints from old evidence and from surfaces long considered too difficult by crime scene investigators....
