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Students, staff and community members are invited to Money Smart Week programs throughout DeKalb, LaSalle and Lee counties during the week of April 22 to 29. All programming is free and covers many facets of personal finance, from establishing a budget to estate planning, couponing and more. Money Smart Week includes financial literacy programs for...

Anne Hanley, associate professor of history and interim director of the Center for Non-Governmental Organization Leadership and Development (NGOLD), has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Award to continue her research on how the first census and the adoption of the metric system affected Brazil’s economy. “This project opens an investigation into...

On Monday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m., New York Times best-selling author Jeff VanderMeer will speak at the DeKalb Public Library. The talk, hosted by Northern Illinois University’s STEM Read and the Friends of the NIU Libraries, is free and open to the public. Jeff VanderMeer is the writer and editor of numerous books of speculative...

It’s time once again for the best 5K of the season. The College of Law wants you to dust off your running shoes, stretch those legs and get ready to hit the road! The 2017 edition of Race NIjUdicata, now being hosted by the NIU Student Bar Association, is coming up on Saturday, April 22,...

On Friday, April 21, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the NIU College of Law will co-sponsor “Immigration in the First 100 Days,” a symposium held at Aspen Hall (room Rubloff 150), 375 East Chicago Avenue on the campus of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago. The symposium will be examining the Trump...

The Office of the President invites nominations of faculty, staff and students for appointment to the presidential commissions for terms to begin in fall 2017. Self-nominations are welcome. The presidential commissions are as follows:  Presidential Commission on Interfaith Initiatives; Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities; Presidential Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity; Presidential Commission on the Status...

My role and performance as president is reviewed annually by the Board of Trustees to aid in goal-setting for the coming year, and this June will mark my fourth anniversary. The board and I agree that it is an appropriate time – and considered a best practice in the higher education community – to conduct...

For two NIU students, discovering medical laboratory science (MLS) was the right degree path for them was like conducting lab research. “I was doing research and stumbled across the MLS program by accident, and I’ve been on that track ever since,” said Nicole Dispensa, a senior from Stillman Valley, Ill. For Reilly Steidle, a senior...

NIU’s production of The Good Person of Szechwan provides a glimpse into a world where the structure of society has fallen and everyone is doing what they can to survive in the slums. Director Kendra Holton sets the scene in “stylized China, but really anywhere. All places where man is exploited by man. Maybe here....

Special guest Dr. Edward Lordan will present “The Evolution of Editorial Cartooning: Changes in Media and Messages” from 5-6 p.m., in Altgeld Hall 315, on Wednesday, April 19. Lordan is here as part of the Hand in Hand exhibition suite’s educational programming series supporting the student-curated exhibition, “A Tale of Donkeys and Elephants; Satire with...

Walker Ashley, associate professor of geography presents “Skylapse: Using Time-lapse Technology to Illustrate the Dynamic Atmosphere” from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, April 19, in Altgeld Hall, Room 125. Ashley is the American Meteorological Society’s Weather, Climate, and Society Editor’s Award recipient (2016); the NIU Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award recipient (2016) and the NIU David Raymond...

The NIU Communiversity Gardens will be hosting a vegetable plant sale along with the Committee for Preservation of Wildlife (CPW), on Wednesday, April 19. The vegetable plant sale will take place from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. on the north side of the Montgomery Auditorium. The vegetables that the Communiversity Gardens will be selling include...