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This is the week the NIU community thanks the not-so unsung heroes at the NIU Heating Plant. Recently, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunities, the State of Illinois Water Survey/University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources commended the plant and its staff for superior water quality in its heating...
Lori Clark
The House of Representatives was on recess last week. The Senate was in session, and one of the main issues senators dealt with was a proposal by the Republicans to repeal the federal health insurance law, commonly referred to as “Obamacare.” This proposal was defeated in the Democrat-controlled Senate, although the Senate did agree to...
College of Engineering & Engineering Technology students
The College of Engineering & Engineering Technology (CEET) is celebrating National Engineers Week with a variety of events for all ages. The annual College Bowl, where the best and the brightest engineering and engineering technology students test their knowledge while they compete for valuable prizes, is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 23. NIU students, faculty, staff...
Susan Russell
NIU’s Susan Russell, a cultural anthropologist and former director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, has a new title: member of the indigenous Manobo tribe of the Philippines. For the past eight years, Russell has directed a U.S. Department of State-funded initiative to bring peace to a conflict-torn region of the Philippines. Each year,...
Abhijit Gupta
Abhijit Gupta, candidates for dean of the NIU Graduate School and associate vice president for graduate studies, will hold a series of open forums Thursday, Feb. 24, and Friday, Feb. 25. His original interviews were postponed last week by the university-closing blizzard.  Gupta is professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the NIU College...
Susan Caplan
NIU alumna Susan Caplan returns to DeKalb this week as the featured speaker of the third annual Career Resources Networking Night, sponsored by the NIU Alumni Association and Career Services. The event, scheduled from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, will include career-related breakout sessions in addition to Caplan’s presentation on how to market yourself...
Ken Zehnder
The February blizzard of 2011 postponed the first full week of the 97th General Assembly before the first snow flake fell. Legislative bills are being introduced and a host of issues — old and new — are on the horizon but will wait until the second week in February for the process to begin. House members are...
H-Bowl tropphy
More than 100,000 people are in Dallas this week to watch the Super Bowl, most of them holding tickets for seats inside the stadium. They’re joined by thousands more who are planning to watch the game on big-screen TVs erected just outside the stadium, not to mention the throngs of media in town to cover...
Students walk across the snowy NIU campus
Northern Illinois University’s main campus in DeKalb, and all regional NIU Educational Centers (Hoffman Estates, Rockford, Naperville) will re-open and resume operations Friday, February 4.
Xavie rSilas
The Huskies forced the extra session after trailing by eight with two minutes left in regulation but came up short in the extra five minutes.
The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday moved to temporarily block a state appeals court ruling that tossed out a $31 billion capital construction program. The latest court ruling allows NIU's plans for renovation of the Stevens Building, planning funds for a computer technology learning emporium and infrastructure work around campus to move forward
Beginning this month, every new book published by Northern Illinois University (NIU) Press will be sold as an e-book as well as a traditional printed book. NIU Press e-books are available through Amazon’s Kindle Store and Barnes & Noble’s NOOKbook Store. The Press hopes to partner with Google Editions in the coming months. “Although we...
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