Category: Students
Pre-registration for next spring’s NIU Educators’ Job Fair opens Thursday, Nov. 1. NIU students and alumni are encouraged to pre-register early. Instructions on how to pre-register will be posted Nov. 1 on the Career Services’ website. The fair takes place Monday, Feb. 25, at the NIU Convocation Center. Qualified candidates have a chance to get...
The Northern Illinois women’s soccer team made a spectacular come from behind effort in the final 21 minutes of its match with Toledo match, trailing, 1-0. Junior Kayra Thompson (Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley Northwest) tied the match in the 69th minute and freshman Nicole Gobbo (Bartlett) scored the game-winner to lift the Huskies over the...
NIU has reached a new high-water mark in graduating its student-athletes, according to Thursday’s release of the Graduation Success Rate report from the National Collegiate Athletic Association. At 83 percent, Northern Illinois’ latest overall Graduation Success Rate (GSR) – which includes student-athletes who entered NIU between 2002-2003 and 2005-06 – is the highest in school...
Northern Illinois University is upgrading its emergency notification system (ENS) and moving to a new platform, the university announced Wednesday. The new Everbridge system will be fully operational by the end of the fall semester and will allow for better implementation of NIU safety bulletins by allowing management of both alerts and advisories in one...
NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology is getting a cutting-edge robotics and mechatronics lab with the help of corporate sponsor OMRON Global. OMRON Global is an international company that focuses on a wide variety of manufacturing automation products, producing motors, sensors, safety equipment and more. The company has proven quite successful, and leaders have...
Student Association President Delonte LeFlore will deliver the first-ever State of the Students Address at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30, in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium of the Holmes Student Center. All are invited. LeFlore will outline accomplishments and goals of the Student Association. As the SA’s 44th chief executive officer, LeFlore oversees more than 20...
Northern Illinois noseguard Nabal Jefferson (Chicago, Ill./Marist HS) has been named one of 15 winners of the 2012 National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete Award, presented by Fidelity Investments, and is a candidate for the 2012 William V. Campbell Trophy, endowed by HealthSouth, the NFF announced Wednesday. Jefferson is the second Huskie player to win the award...
Two NIU broadcast students spent this past summer preparing for their future careers by interning with professionals at ABC 7 Chicago (WLS-TV). One student, senior Jorge Rodas, spent 11 weeks shadowing reporter Evelyn Holmes and even got a chance to record an anchor reel as though he were doing a live broadcast. Although it never...
Join the Women’s Resource Center for engaging dialogue on hot-button topics that affect today’s college students. On Oct. 30, Victim Advocacy Services will be speaking about the impact of domestic violence in the media, in recognition of October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The Women’s Resource Center is seeking the thoughts, perspectives and opinions of...
Each year, NIU students create flyers, buttons and speeches to petition support as they run for an elected office or position on campus. They pursue efforts to get involved, gain leadership experience and enhance their educational journey at Northern Illinois University. Join the Women’s Resource Center from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, in...
Course Transformation Project, in conjunction with Outreach, Engagement and Information Technologies Division, is inviting faculty members, departmental chairs and deans to upcoming talk by Diane M. Doberneck from Michigan State University (MSU) titled “Engaged Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure.” The talk will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 5, in the Sky...
Northern Illinois University’s Common Reading Experience, Orientation & First-Year Experience and the Student Association are collaborating to sponsor “This I Believe about POLITICS,” an event centered around expressing beliefs related to government, laws, rights, leadership and other issues connected to the upcoming election. The event will take place in the Sky Room of the Holmes...
