Category: Alumni
The following faculty and staff profile is one in a series of stories that will appear in NIU Today highlighting employees who support students through the NIU Foundation. The NIU Foundation invites all faculty and staff to come together with the entire Huskie family to support student scholarships by making a gift on #GivingTuesday, Nov. 28. ...
Students from NIU College of Law excelled at the 21st Annual National Latina/o Law Student Association (NLLSA) Conference and moot court competition held Sep. 28-30, in Atlanta, GA. The event was co-hosted by Emory University School of Law, Georgia State University College of Law and Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School. The moot court competition included fourteen teams...
For its generous support in providing financial assistance toward degree completion to a diverse group of transfer students, the CME Group Foundation is this year’s recipient of the Northern Illinois University Foundation’s High Impact Philanthropy Award. Sparking the foundation’s decision was a $500,000 grant to NIU that provides scholarship support for two years to 13...
Arcomusical, a sextet of Afro-Brazilian berimbau musical bows, directed by NIU Professor and Head of Percussion Studies Gregory Beyer, is on the ballot for consideration for the 2018 Grammy Awards in the category of Best World Music Album. Arcomusical’s album, “MeiaMeia” represents three years of continuous development of their original compositions for this unique ensemble. MeiaMeia is...
If you love sharing social media and NIU is one of your passions, you’re invited to become a social media ambassador. The NIU Alumni Association is looking for social media ambassadors to share the impact of an NIU education during #GivingTuesday on Nov. 28, a day of philanthropy meant to encourage community participation in giving...
As the curtain opens at the 2017 Red and Black, guests will experience all the energy and excitement they’ve come to expect from the NIU Foundation’s signature gala. As always, the evening will feature the stories of the university’s talented, grateful students and the generous alumni and donors who stand behind them. This year, the...
In today’s competitive job market, students need to establish contacts in their field and get work experience before they graduate. Students have many opportunities to be mentored on campus, but a new externship program will expose students to the working world while they’re being mentored. Eleven students from the University Honors Program will be placed...
NIU Board of Trustees Chair Wheeler Coleman has never forgotten how instrumental the CHANCE program was in putting him on the path to success. On Oct. 12, as part of an ongoing effort to pay forward the opportunities the program provided him, Coleman and his wife, the Hon. Sharon. J. Coleman, announced a $25,000 gift specifically to support students in the CHANCE program. CHANCE identifies,...
Yara Santillan traded her sneakers for high heels, her gym for a cubicle and her whistle for a smartphone. What the new coordinator of Physical Education for the Chicago Public Schools hasn’t given up is her drive and ambition to make a positive difference for children through sport. “I look at my own personal experience,”...
A production nearly seven years in the making finally has its opening night in sight. The Stevens Building is NIU’s home to the School of Theatre and Dance and the Department of Anthropology. The renovation project that was first approved for state funding in 2010 has taken a rather circuitous route. State budget-related shutdowns of...
School of Theatre and Dance alumna Amber Sallis, has been named a “Hot New Face of Chicago Theater Class of 2017” by the Chicago Tribune. Sallis most recently appeared in a Steep Theatre production of “Earthquakes in London.” She will next appear in “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,” September 22 to October 19 with Eclectic Theatre,...
For the past two years, NIU alum Sam Watt (BS Physics, 2014) has been teaching science in Beijing, introducing the seventh- and eighth-graders at Beijing Academy (北京中学)—as well as their teachers, parents and administrators—to an exciting hands-on approach to STEM education. As a STEM educator for NIU’s Center for P-20 Engagement and member of the...
