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Alum credits NIU with hotel management success, gives back   Jeff Wolff started at Marriott as a bus boy about 45 years ago while still in high school and now travels throughout the world, working with more than 5,000 hotels. A vice president for Market Operations and Guest Experience at Marriott International, Inc., Wolff has never...
Longtime DeKalb residents Dorothy G. O’Brien and Genevieve A. O’Brien grew up on a farm south of DeKalb. The sisters were very grateful for their educational opportunities and life experiences and have left a legacy which reflects that. Genevieve O’Brien went on to marry Ed Vrba, and through a testamentary trust they established the O’Brien-Vrba Scholarship...
It’s a scholarship opportunity that almost sounds too good to be true, but this is the real deal for high achieving, low-income NIU students who will be juniors this coming fall and are majoring in one of six STEM fields within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. NIU is encouraging those students to apply...
Motivated by her experiences with social injustice and discrimination, recent graduate Nehal Hindi came to NIU to study law and become an advocate for herself and others. As a recipient of the Embracing Diversity Scholarship from the College of Law, she was able to spend her final year of law school getting a head start...
When returning to school to pursue a new career, Jonathan Gustafson was grateful to find scholarships to help him along his path to success. When Gustafson first enrolled at NIU, he was pursuing a music degree with a choral emphasis. He was well on his way and had completed his junior year before leaving school...
Officials with Crane Composites, the world’s leading provider of reinforced composite materials for the building and transportation markets, visited NIU on Thursday, April 5, to meet some of the students who have benefited from Crane scholarships. Crane Composites has offered 60 scholarships to students since 2010 in the College of Business and the College of...
African-American students of NIU in their junior or senior year are encouraged to apply for the Fanny Ruth Patterson Scholarship, which honors the first black student to graduate from Northern. The application and all supporting documents must be submitted no later than Wednesday, Feb. 28. The NIU Black Alumni Council offers the scholarship and awards...
When NIU alumna Rita Dragonette embarked on her professional career, she was armed with the valuable and powerful soft skills developed through a liberal arts education — strong communication, critical thinking, writing and creativity. After early stints in entry-level publishing jobs, she quickly excelled, becoming a mover and a shaker in the public relations world...
The Operating Staff (Civil Service) Dependent Scholarship Fund was established to award financial assistance to children of operating staff employees or retirees while they attend Northern Illinois University. Further information is available on the OSC website. To apply, students should apply at the NIU AcademicWorks website by Tuesday, Jan. 31.
Transfer students from community colleges will get the financial assistance that they need to complete their degrees, thanks to a generous $500,000 donation from the CME Group Foundation. Over the next two years, the funds will support 13 Northern Illinois University students who are accepted into a field of study that leads to a financial...
The Scholarship and Financial Aid Office, together with the NIU Foundation, is excited to announce that NIU students have a new way to view and apply for scholarships. The new system, called AcademicWorks, is a web-based scholarship management solution that holds nearly all NIU scholarship opportunities. AcademicWorks provides a unique and highly streamlined experience for...
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