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Northern Illinois University is hosting its first-ever Celebrating Excellence event. Sixteen different functions – including honor society inductions, lectures and guest speakers, research presentations, recognition ceremonies and conferences – will take place between Sunday, April 14, and Sunday, April 28. Celebrating Excellence highlights the accomplishments and contributions of NIU students, faculty and staff to the...
Laboratory Professionals Get Results
“Laboratory Professionals Get Results” is the theme of Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, which is celebrated from Monday, April 22, through Friday, April 26, this year. The Medical Laboratory Sciences Club of Northern Illinois University is inviting the campus community to find out more about Laboratory Professionals through a “Be The Match” registration event. From 10...
Jamison Wells
For the second-straight game, the Northern Illinois baseball team (9-17) tallied at least 10 hits and runs in a game as it defeated UW-Milwaukee (11-12) in the Huskies home opener, 10-6. Freshman Bobby Kuntzendorf (Yorkville/Aurora Christian) earned his first career victory as the starting pitcher. Senior Jamison Wells batted 3-for-4 with three runs, four RBI...
Jessica Sturm
The Northern Illinois University softball team dropped a 7-3 contest to Illinois State at Marian Kneer Stadium Wednesday. “We weren’t able to get the clutch hit or clutch defensive play when we needed it,” said NIU head coach Christina Sutcliffe. “They had a couple hits that just fell in that ended up being the difference...
World Music Festival logo
The NIU School of Music will host its fourth annual World Music Festival, Musical Encounters, from Tuesday, April 9, through Sunday, April 14. As usual, this week-long event will consist of concerts and lectures featuring various world music styles and cultural dialogues in music. Essam Rafea, an artist-in-residence, renowned Middle Eastern oudist, composer and music...
NIU’s Presidential Commission on the Status of Minorities (PCSM) invites students, faculty and staff to attend its Diversity and Inclusion Summit and to nominate an outstanding student, faculty or staff member at Northern Illinois University for the McKinley “Deacon” Davis Diversity Award. The Deacon Davis Diversity Award recognizes significant contributions made to the improvement of...
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) visited Northern Illinois University Wednesday with the aim of learning how the school has made serving veterans a priority through a range of academic, health and financial services. “A college diploma is a fundamental part of the American Dream, and no one deserves to see that dream fulfilled more than...
New Hall students sample exotic fruits, veggies
It was not a normal dining experience March 20 for students eating at New Hall: A table filled with fruits and vegetables caught students’ eyes and curiosities. Among the 40 unusual choices, “we had jack fruit, persimmon, Japanese pear, ugly fruit from Jamaica and dragon fruit, to name a few,” said Jose Rotor, senior nutrition...
Society of Women Engineers
NIU’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE) helped to kick off the first Women in Engineering Day event, held March 19 at the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology. The event tries to get high schools girls interested and excited about the field of engineering. “The Women in Engineering event is a good way to get...
Ashlee Mack
NIU’s School of Music will host a recital featuring guest pianist Ashlee Mack performing new and recent music for piano solo. The concert will take place at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 5, in the Recital Hall of the Music Building, and is free and open to the public. The program will consist of music written...
Carole Silver
The Northern Illinois University College of Law will host the 20th annual Francis X. Riley Lecture on Professionalism at 3 p.m. Friday, April 5, in the Riley Courtroom of Swen Parson Hall. Friday’s lecture, titled “Re-contextualizing Professionalism,” will be given by Carole Silver, a professor at Indiana University (Bloomington) Maurer School of Law who specializes...
Photo of nuclear power plant cooling towers
David Kraft, director of the Chicago-based Nuclear Energy Information Service, will speak Monday, April 22, at NIU as a part of Earth Day celebrations. Kraft will talk on “Chernobyl, Fukushima, Iran and Now North Korea: A Planet is a Terrible Thing to (Rad-)Waste – Proliferation and A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy.” He will touch on...
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