Category: Alumni
Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, will be honored Friday, May 6, as the NIU College of Business Distinguished Alumnus at the College of Business Annual Alumni Luncheon. The luncheon will take place at Harry Caray’s Italian Steak House, 70 Yorktown Center in Lombard, Ill. Corporate tables and individual reservations are...
Join the NIU Alumni Association for an exploration of Turkey with two trips this summer. Located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, this dynamic and historic country combines the history and culture of an ancient land with the development and progress of the modern world. The trips will take place from May 20 to May 29 and from June...
NIU Trustee Cherilyn G. Murer (’78), president and CEO of Murer Consultants, Inc., will present the 18th Annual Francis X. Riley Lecture on Professionalism at 3 p.m. Friday, April 1. Murer will present her lecture in the Francis X. Riley Courtroom at the NIU College of Law, Swen Parson Hall. Her lecture, titled “Recalibrating the Compass...
NIU alum Roberto Carmona will be the keynote speaker Saturday, April 2, at the CHANCE and LRC Latino Leadership & Academic Achievement Reception. Scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center, the reception is organized to honor and instill pride in incoming Latino students who have been admitted to NIU through...
NIU alum Mike Disa, director and co-writer of soon-to-be-released animated film “Hoodwinked Too: Hood vs. Evil,” will return to campus next week to speak about his life and work in the Hollywood movie business. Disa, who graduated from NIU School of Art in 1987 with a bachelor’s of fine arts degree in art and computer...
Mark Montgomery, who has spent the last 10 seasons at his alma mater, Michigan State University, including the last four as associate head coach, was introduced as Northern Illinois University’s 27th head men’s basketball coach Thursday. Jeff Compher, NIU associate vice president and director of athletics, made the announcement. Montgomery, a Michigan native who also...
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...
Leaders of the NIU Executive Club announced today that their Executive Club Scholarship has jumped from $5,000 to $7,500 per year. Since establishing the scholarship in 1999, the NIU Executive Club has awarded nearly $100,000 in scholarship dollars to 17 exceptional NIU students. These significant scholarship awards have had a direct impact on the lives of the award...
The NIU College of Education, in partnership with the NIU Alumni Association, will host "Transformational Leaders: Inspiring Change," a moderated panel discussion featuring notable College of Education alumnae who hold significant leadership positions in their fields.
The Northern Star indcuted six alumni into its Hall of Fame during a Saturday, Feb. 26, banquet. The Northern Star Hall of Fame honors former students, advisers and friends of the Northern Star who significantly affected the Northern Star, journalism or related fields, or who have otherwise received acclaim based in part on experience gained...
Northern Illinois assistant volleyball coach Coley Pawlikowski was named one of the American Volleyball Coaches Association’s (AVCA) Thirty Under 30 recipients, the organization announced Wednesday. The honor, which was established in 2009 to recognize rising volleyball coaches under the age of 30 at every level of volleyball, has been bestowed upon Pawlikowski in two of...
Members of NIU’s College of Education family are enduring a difficult week as they mourn the passing of promising elementary education student Alexis “Lexi” Weber and longtime and valued staff member Paula McDowell. Paula Jo McDowell McDowell died Saturday, Feb. 19. She was employed at NIU for nearly 26 years, spending the last six years as an administrative...
