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Logo of Huskie Family Connections
Student Affairs & Enrollment Management and Huskie Family Connections will host the third regional meeting of the year at home on NIU’s DeKalb campus. Families of NIU students are invited from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, April 21, to Room 100 of the Campus Life Building. Participants can meet Student Affairs administrators and share dialogue...
Photo of a student at a previous NIU Showcase of Student Writing
The First Year Composition Program will host its annual Showcase of Student Writing (SSW) from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom. The showcase provides a forum for hundreds of students in various English classes to share their research with a public audience. Students present their projects through a combination...
2013 Latino Film Festival logo
NIU’s third annual Latino Film Festival returns Tuesday, April 9, and continues through Thursday, April 18. This year’s festival will focus on drugs and politics in Latin America. First on the docket is the award-winning documentary “Pecados de Mi Padre,” which will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in the Cavan Auditorium of Graham Hall....
Logo of JiET-A (Joint Institute of Engineering & Technology-Aerospace
The Joint Institute of Engineering and Technology-Aerospace (JiET-A) has announced that it has received more than 100 applicants in growing the region’s aerospace talent pipeline. Driven by the Rockford Area Aerospace Network (RAAN), JiET-A formed in 2010 to gain more high-paying jobs and increase business opportunities for aerospace suppliers in the area. The program offers...
Dor Amir
The Northern Illinois men’s tennis team bounced back from a Saturday defeat at Ball State Sunday as the Huskies (13-7) defeated the Mastadons (7-12), 4-3. NIU claimed the first point of the match with doubles victories at Nos. 2 and 3 to gain a 1-0 lead. Frederic Cadieux and Jovan Zeljkovic muscled their way to...
Landon Tenhagen
Trailing 3-1 in the eighth inning, the Northern Illinois baseball team (11-18, 6-3 MAC) rallied back with a two-run homerun in the eighth and a pair of RBI walks in the ninth to defeat Central Michigan (12-18, 3-6 MAC) and claim the Huskies first series in Mt. Pleasant since 2009, 5-3. Landon Tenhagen (Burlington, Wis./Madison...
Amanda Sheppard
A walk-off home run proved to be the difference as the Northern Illinois University softball team dropped a 5-4 extra inning contest to Miami at MU Softball Stadium Sunday afternoon. “We battled from behind twice and showed a ton of fight,” said NIU head coach Christina Sutcliffe. “We just need to figure out how to...
Megan Gregory
The Northern Illinois track and field team took third place Saturday at the Chicagoland Championships in Romeoville, Ill. The Huskies totaled 83 points in the meet to take bronze. DePaul won with 156 points, while North Central took second with a final tally of 102.50. “This weekend’s competition was a solid effort from our ladies,”...
Coach Rod Carey talks to the troops.
The Northern Illinois football team scrimmaged for nearly 90 minutes in full pads Saturday at Huskie Stadium in the most intense day of full contact work so far this spring. The Huskie offense, especially the first team unit working behind quarterback Jordan Lynch (Chicago, Ill./Mt. Carmel HS), appeared to be in mid-season form early in...
Axel Lagerlof
Northern Illinois continued its Mid-American Conference season Saturday at Ball State, in hopes of improving to 2-1 in the MAC. The Huskies (12-7, 1-2 MAC) would fall to the Cardinals however, 7-0. NIU will look to rebound tomorrow at IPFW in preparations for their next MAC match at Toledo. “Ball State was better than us...
Eli Anderson
Northern Illinois’ Eli Anderson (Glenview/New Trier) pitched his third-consecutive complete game Saturday at Central Michigan (12-17, 3-5 MAC), striking out six and walking three in the Huskies (10-18, 5-3 MAC) 7-2 triumph. Anderson is now 4-3 this season after his 120 pitch, 78 strike performance (.650 strike ratio). It is the most complete games by...
Huskie Hero awards
Speak Up. Get Help. JUST ACT. These six words have saturated the campus community through a successful social marketing campaign and educational workshops focusing on decisions and intervention skills during problematic situations. As the Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management’s Bystander Intervention Education initiative comes to a close, consider nominating a Huskie Hero. Huskie...
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