What’s up with NIU Alumni
“Don’t Get Stuck: Avoid Accounts Payable Bottlenecks” is the topic of the Thursday, May 19, installment of the Alumni & Foundation Forum. The weekly presentations and Q-and-As are hosted by the Alumni Association and the NIU Foundation to demonstrate how they can
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After 30 years on the NIU campus as a student, member of the faculty and dean, Promod Vohra has announced that he is leaving the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology for a job in private industry. “It was one of
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Data is the topic of the Thursday, May 12, installment of the Alumni & Foundation Forum, weekly presentations and Q-and-As hosted by the Alumni Association and the NIU Foundation that demonstrate how they can support the campus. Participants can learn: how records of
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To kick off the 20th anniversary celebration of its France Study Abroad Program, NIU Law hosted an anniversary dinner for alumni, faculty, staff and current students, marking the longtime relationship and exchange program with the Université Bordeaux-Montesquieu in Agen, France. The program –
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Jim Wong, founder and CEO of the Chicago-based Brilliant, an award-winning accounting, finance and IT staffing firm, and Carmen Rossi, a Chicago restaurateur and lawyer, have been chosen to serve on the board of directors for the newly formed Illinois Business and
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The NIU Alumni Association will recognize 10 outstanding alumni, from a Hollywood filmmaker to an attorney on the 2016 Illinois Super Lawyers list, on April 22 at its annual alumni awards ceremony. “Our outstanding alumni illustrate the power of and promise in
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Jeffrey S. Aronin, a graduate of Northern Illinois University College of Business, will receive a 2016 Medallion for Entrepreneurship from Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honor Society. Aronin is one of only four nationwide recipients this year of the Beta Gamma Sigma
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After decades of film work, actress and NIU alumna Joan Allen is relishing the experience of her “kind of, sort of” first television series. Allen, theatre arts ’89, starred for one season in the HBO series “Luck” and for six episodes of
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Members of the McKearn Fellows invite the university community and NIU alumni to join them Thursday, April 14, for refreshments and networking. The event takes place from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center, 231 N. Annie Glidden
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NIU’s Master of Public Administration (MPA) program once again received top marks in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate schools. The MPA program was ranked sixth in the nation in the specialty field of city management and urban
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Applications are invited from all full-time, NIU tenured and tenure-track faculty members interested in becoming McGrath Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellows. McGrath Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows are academic entrepreneurs who are pursuing projects that demonstrate entrepreneurial thinking and action in ways that build on their
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Northern Illinois University College of Law alumnus Russell Slifer (’94) returned Feb. 24 to Swen Parson Hall for the first time in more than 20 years to address NIU Law students. Slifer is the deputy under secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
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