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One is the chair of his academic department, a respected professional in his field and an active consultant to the industry. The other is the tremendously successful director of Intercollegiate Athletics at a Division I, Football Bowl Subdivision university that has scored several conference championships in recent years.Both are co-teaching a course this fall in...
Dr. Mark Groza, Associate Professor of Marketing at Northern Illinois University and the Enterprise Holdings Professor of Sales, was named last month as NIU’s NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative according to Associate Vice-President and Director of Athletics Sean T. Frazier.  As the Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR), Groza, who was a four-year letterwinner at linebacker for the...
Fans and friends of Northern Illinois University Athletics are invited to join Huskie coaches and staff on Thursday, July 20 at Eduardo’s Restaurant in DeKalb (214 E. Lincoln Highway) as NIU will kick off a “tour” celebrating the first Jacoby Trophy win in school history.  The free event will begin at 6:30 p.m. and includes...
NIU Director of Percussion Studies Dr. Gregory Beyer and Projecto Arcomusical (made up of NIU percussion alumni and graduate students) participated and were recognized at the SAVVY Arts Venture Challenge and Chamber Music Competition held at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, on June 3-5. The SAVVY Arts Venture Challenge is the world’s...
The Figure Skating Team took to the ice on Saturday, March 4, and Sunday, March 5, at the Skate-on-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Figure Skating Competition sanctioned by the U.S. Figure Skating Association and hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, placing eighth out of 18 teams. All seven girls on the roster competed this spring. Christi Helm, a...
May’s 2017 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Golf Championships are right around the corner, and the entire NIU community is invited to celebrate the university’s first opportunity to host a collegiate sports national championship. In less than a month, some of the nation’s best college golfers and golf teams will convene at one of...
Northern Illinois University’s Athletics Hall of Fame is seeking nominations for its 2017 induction class, selection committee chair Rodney Davis announced. “We want to remind the community, faculty and staff, our fans and NIU alums that this is an open process and that we encourage the public to submit qualified nominees,” said Davis, a former...
On Oct. 15 and 16, the NIU Figure Skating Team placed sixth of 13 teams at the Maize and Blue Intercollegiate Figure Skating Competition sanctioned by the U.S. Figure Skating Association and hosted by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. This competition served as the first of the season, as the team hopes to...
Next May, NIU faculty, staff, students and alumni — along with fans and visitors from across the country — will experience the excitement and pageantry of a national championship tournament up close and in person when NIU and Rich Harvest Farms host the 2017 NCAA Golf Championships. For two weeks – May 19-24 for the...
What happened to the Ancient Maya, so well known from the monuments and cities preserved in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras? Was there a collapse? David Webster, professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University, will explore the archaeological evidence of lords and kings at the ancient Maya site of Copan, Honduras, to answer this question. Drawing...
NIU alumnus Derrick Strand (accountancy ’90), an organizational strategist and self-described “machete thinker,” will deliver a Jobs PLUS talk on “working effectively in teams” at 4:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 14, in the NIU Convocation Center. The event is open to all NIU students. “High-performing teams don’t ‘just happen’,” Strand says. A lot of work goes...
For the second consecutive season, NIUs men’s basketball Head Coach Mark Montgomery will host a monthly luncheon, Mondays With Monty, at Fanatico Cucina Italiana, 1215 Blackhawk Road, in DeKalb.  Each month, Montgomery will provide an in-depth update on Huskie men’s basketball while taking questions and interacting with Huskie fans in attendance. Coach Monty will be...
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