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The NIU Esports Arena recently purchased two accessible controllers to make it easier for NIU students with disabilities to play video games. The new controllers are one more way for NIU Esports, in the Division of Outreach, Engagement and Regional Development, to bring to life the program’s vision of an inclusive space for students and...
“Being able to explore different avenues has really allowed me to find out who I want to be.” Alexandra Alcantar is a first-generation college student at Northern Illinois University, majoring in Political Science with minors in Latino and Latin American Studies and Computer Science. Alcantar currently is representing NIU as the university’s 2023-2024 Newman Civic Fellow....
Food Truck Wednesdays offered a fun opportunity for the NIU community to gather this fall, bringing back the lively campus vibe so central to the college experience – and allowing one NIU alum to give back. The MLK Commons has long been a central gathering spot for the NIU community, but the closing of Normal...
NIU has its first detailed sustainability playbook, with aims on making the university an innovator and model of sustainable behaviors in the years and decades to come. After a four-month period of public review, NIU President Lisa C. Freeman and other members of senior leadership signed off last month on the sweeping Sustainability and Climate...
NIU Doctor of Audiology students took part in the eighth annual Clinical Rounds Poster Presentations event on Nov. 21 held at the Wellness and Literacy Center. Each year during their final on-campus fall semester, members of the cohort of audiology students choose a clinical case, read relevant research and present their findings to peers and...
It’s never too early to learn about philanthropy. That was the case when NIU’s Child and Development and Family Center (CDFC) held a birthday cake kit drive this fall to benefit the Huskie Food Pantry. “At the CDFC we have three center-wide pyramid model expectations: we take care of ourselves, we take care of others...
The College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) hosted a Manufacturing Innovation Symposium in November to introduce companies from across the region to how CEET and the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC) can partner with them to help their businesses thrive in a highly competitive marketplace. “We have a tremendous range of expertise in the...
In 2022, Dr. Levi Harrison partnered with Northern Illinois University Esports to create the Fierce Gamer Scholarship. Dr. Harrison is an orthopedic surgeon known as “the gamers and esports doctor” who is dedicated to promoting mental, physical and emotional health among video gamers. The annual $1,000 Fierce Gamer Scholarships are awarded to NIU undergraduate students...
Blindness and visual disabilities do not discriminate. Anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or creed, can face a lifetime of limited vision or no sight at all. For some, it begins at birth. For others, it can come with age, disease or accident. No one is immune. Members of that population have for...
Three College of Health and Human Sciences (CHHS) students earned the opportunity to attend the Health in Entrepreneurship Research Forum held in Chicago on Oct. 13-14. Event organizers included Tim Michaelis, assistant professor of entrepreneurship at NIU College of Business, who along with Becca Husar, associate director for Innovation and Partnership Development, provided CHHS with...
Thanksgiving can be a special time of coming together and making memories. This year, two NIU students took this to a new level, organizing a Thanksgiving meal for more than 100 people at Ellington’s Restaurant in the Holmes Student Center – a gathering that included their families and multiple generations of Huskies. Gabby Bostwick and...
Two NIU health care disciplines joined forces Oct. 27 during an interprofessional education mass casualty and emergency care simulation event at Anderson Hall. The learning opportunity started as part of a College of EducationInstructional Innovation Grant written by Tyler Wood and  Nicholas Grahovec, both assistant professors in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education. “Events like...
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