Category: Students
All are welcome to participate in Outdoor Adventures’ third annual Camp on Campus. The event is scheduled from 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, through 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, at the West Lagoon near Eco Woods and Stevenson South Residence Hall. Camp on Campus is to build community in the outdoors in an educational, recreational and celebratory manner....
The Office of Student Engagement & Experiential Learning is seeking faculty proposals to host an Undergraduate Research Assistant during the spring 2014 semester. NIU’s URA Program awards faculty with funding to hire an undergraduate to work 150 hours (10 hours per week for 15 weeks) at the pay rate of $10 per hour. This program allows...
First, knock off a Big Ten opponent in their house. Check. Second, take a mandatory weekend off after only one game. Check. Third, travel nearly 1,800 miles to play at the university that your new president called “home” as recently as three months ago. Well, that final “check” is coming soon for the NIU Huskie...
Are you getting involved on campus? Are you attending class regularly? Are you enjoying your NIU experience? The answers to these and other questions can be found through MAP-Works. All new freshmen and transfer students are encouraged to participate in the first MAP-Works survey of the 2013-2014 academic year. Students participating in MAP-Works complete a...
The Office of Student Academic Success has rebranded a popular series of academic workshops and made other changes to better fit the needs of NIU students. Formerly known as the Soup & Success Series, Edible Education provides students with a free lunch while learning about various topics critical to academic success at NIU. The original...
Molly Holmes is assuming the role of the director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center and Women’s Resource Center (WRC). Over the next nine months, Holmes will lead the staffs of both centers in a strategic planning process that will include opportunities for key stakeholders to contribute to shaping this new department. The...
Northern Illinois University is gearing up for a historic visit from Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand, who will be honored for her many good works in science and education and on humanitarian fronts. Her Royal Highness will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree during a special ceremony at...
Northern Illinois University advanced 12 places to No. 177 among “Best National Universities” and moved into the top 100 among national public universities, according to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges list released Sept. 10. NIU ranks 98th among public institutions within the national universities category, which consists of 281 American universities which offer...
The Northern Illinois University women’s golf team finished 13th Monday at the Redbird Invitational, hosted by Illinois State at Weibring Golf Club. “Yesterday it was good to see them play 36 holes. They handled it pretty good, better than I expected,” NIU head coach Kim Kester said. “Today, you could tell it took a toll...
When senior biological sciences major Sarah Stuebing wanted to conduct an independent research project following her sophomore year at Northern Illinois University, she found a program that would allow her to work at the only primate rehabilitation program in Argentina. But Argentina is a long way from her hometown of DeKalb, and the cost of...
Richard White, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian of the American West and MacArthur “genius grant” recipient, will visit NIU to deliver the 10th annual installment of the W. Bruce Lincoln Endowed Lecture Series. White, who serves as the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University, will begin his talk at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept....
Northern Illinois senior Sarah Angelos (Waukegan, Ill./Waukegan) has been named the Mid-American Conference West Division’s Offensive Player of the Week, the league office announced Monday. The honor is the second weekly award in Angelos’ career and the first for the Huskies in 2013. “Sarah and the team had a positive week,” said NIU head coach...
