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Judy Santacaterina
NIU will host more than 200 students Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2, for the annual Illinois Intercollegiate Forensics Association State Tournament. NIU has hosted the tournament every other year for the past 25 years and has come to be known as the “cradle of coaches” in the forensics community. So it’s no surprise...
The NIU Forensics team is enjoying a successful season thus far, including a first-place finish overall during a recent competition at the College of DuPage. Six team members took first place in individual categories. They included: Senior Jimmy Zucker of DeKalb (persuasion and first place overall for individual events) Senior Lauren Scott of C­­hicago (poetry)...
Kevin Folta
As a Chicago native working for the Plant Innovation Center (PIC) at the University of Florida, NIU alumnus Kevin Folta has a hard time finding a pizza in Gainesville that is on par with those he grew up eating. After failing to find a pizza he liked, Folta took it upon himself to create a...
Joyce Ester
Bitten “by the Student Affairs bug,” Joyce Ester says that her time at NIU as a graduate assistant in housing “led me to where I am today.” And where she is today is no small feat. After a nationwide search, Ester was selected in November to be president of Kennedy-King College, one of the City...
Outstanding Women Award winners
The 2012 Outstanding Women Student Awards have been presented to 43 women from across all disciplines at Northern Illinois University and representing undergraduates, graduate students and law students graduating in the 2012 calendar year. The NIU Presidential Commission on the Status of Women distributed the awards during its April 22 reception at NIU’s main DeKalb...
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The University Honors Program and the University Honors Committee welcome nominations for the University Honors Great Professor Award, a campus-wide award recognizing excellence in honors education. The deadline for completed nomination packages is March 19, 2012. The award will be presented Sunday, April 22, by President John Peters at Honors Day. The Great Professor Award...
High school students from across Illinois attended NIU's HELP Camp.
Erika Weeden will launch an organization near Mother McAuley High School to help clean up her community on the South Side of Chicago. Olivia Guerra will teach more of her teenage peers at Rock Falls High School about the Search Institute’s “40 developmental assets” that help to foster healthy, caring and responsible adults. Emily Rohman...
It’s difficult to determine who gets more out of NIU’s annual summer speech camp — the high school students who enroll or the counselors who coach them. About 50 students from Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin participated in last week’s camp, where they developed speech-giving, debating or theatrical skills. For the 16 counselors, the camp was an...
The NIU Foundation Venture Grants program supports faculty and staff in their pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and outreach to the larger community. Funds are awarded each fiscal year through a competitive application process and recipients are chosen by the NIU Foundation Grants Committee. This year, three Venture Grants were awarded, totaling $35,000. Huskie...
Judy Santacaterina
When more than 20 institutions from across the state came to campus March 4 and 5 for the Illinois Intercollegiate Forensic Association Tournament, the competition served as an NIU homecoming for nine of those school’s forensic coaches. Judy Santacaterina, director of individual events at NIU, was excited to have her former students make a return to campus...
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