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Northern Illinois kicker Mathew Sims made a 36-yard field goal with four seconds on the clock Saturday to give the Huskies a 30-27 season-opening win over the Iowa Hawkeyes at Kinnick Stadium. The kick gave NIU its first win over the Hawkeyes in nine tries, and it came in comeback fashion as Northern Illinois trailed...
The Northern Illinois volleyball team got its season off to a good start Friday night in Victor E. Court, as they defeated the Green Bay Phoenix, 3-2, at the NIU Invitational. With a win against the former NIU assistant coach Michaela Franklin-led Phoenix, the Huskies extended their home-opener win streak to six matches and 12...
Behind goals from sophomore Bertrand Gaschot (Austin, Texas/Westwood), senior James Stevenson (Falkirk, Scotland/St. Mungo’s) and junior Isaac Kannah (Plymouth, Minn./Prairie Seeds Academy), the Northern Illinois men’s soccer team opened the 2013 regular season with a 3-0 victory over Cincinnati on Friday at the Wolstein Classic. “The result was good,” said NIU head coach Eric Luzzi....
The Northern Illinois University athletics department is pleased to announce the launch of the redesigned www.NIUHuskies.com, the online home of the NIU Huskies. The “new” site appeals to the changing world of online content with a larger social media presence and improved navigation so fans can easily access NIUHuskies.com at home on the computer or...
Northern Illinois senior Sarah Angelos (Waukegan, Ill./Waukegan) and junior MacKenzie Roddy (San Bernardino, Calif./Cajon) were both picked to the Mid-American Conference’s Preseason All-Conference team, the league announced today. The selection of Angelos and Roddy to the team marks the third consecutive year NIU has been represented on the team and the second time that the...
Jodi Sticken and Gaylen Kapperman, both of the NIU College of Education’s Vision Program, were awarded a $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to train teachers and orientation and mobility instructors to work with children who are blind. Kapperman said the grant – which will be dispersed over the next five years – enables...
Students, faculty and staff filled the atrium and lined the balconies of NIU’s Barsema Hall Wednesday to cheer Chicago Blackhawks national anthem singer Jim Cornelison, who got the semester off to a rousing start with his signature rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Cornelison, who has become world famous for singing the anthem (accompanied by 20,000...
The Northern Illinois volleyball team is once again predicted to finish near the top of the conference in 2013, as the Huskies were picked second in the Mid-American Conference’s West Division by the league’s coaches. NIU received four first place votes in the poll and was one of four schools that received votes to win...
The NIU College of Law welcomed the Class of 2016 to their new home for the next three years. The new class gathered Aug. 12 in Swen Parson Hall to begin a week of orientation. The class of 103 students came to NIU with strong diverse backgrounds and from areas throughout the country. Students were officially...
Today is an important one in the history of the United States, because it is the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, which was the culmination of decades of struggle for human dignity and civil rights in this country.
Friday, Aug. 30, is national College Colors Day, and Northern Illinois University students, employees, alumni and annuitants are encouraged to show their Huskie pride this and every Friday by wearing cardinal (red) and black attire. “There is a lot of Huskie pride among our students, faculty, staff and alumni, and I hope that it will...
