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Fazioli Pianoforti Model F278
In September 2012, the NIU School of Music began to host a beautiful Fazioli F278 Concert Grand. The piano previously was owned and loved by a retired doctor who had purchased it with the goal of becoming a better pianist – at age 85. Declining health necessitated moving to his son’s condo in Chicago, but...
Jarvis Purnell
Jarvis Purnell, director of Off-Campus & Non-Traditional Student Services since the spring of 2012, has been named director of Military Student Services. Purnell will oversee both departments, as he has done since last fall, when he became the acting director of Military Student Services. Over the course of the current academic year, Purnell will have an...
Thomas A. Schall
Thomas J. Schall, a 2013 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, will give a talk Friday, Oct. 11, on “Chemokines and Chemoattractant Receptors: From Flesh-Eating Bacteria to AIDS to Autoimmune Disease.” The lecture will begin at noon in Room 201 of LaTourette Hall. The public is invited to attend. Founder and...
Four quarters of football were not enough. One overtime period was not enough. The prize was too big: a Mid-American Conference championship. With the hard-fought score knotted at 37, the NIU Huskies and the Kent State Golden Flashes carried their perfect conference records into the second overtime – one more chance to claim victory. Huskie...
#WHYENGINEERING
Across the United States, engineering and manufacturing companies are struggling to find engineers to steer the country out of a recession. It is estimated that by 2018, the nation will have a shortfall of more than 250,000 engineers. At the same time, 16 of the top 20 growing occupations will require science, technology, engineering and...
Homecoming logo
Even though temperatures are climbing into the 80s the next few days, autumn weather is allegedly heading to DeKalb next week – just in time for Homecoming 2013. Several activities are planned under the theme “Generations of Pride,” starting at 11 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, with Powder Puff Football in Central Park. The Homecoming Kick-Off...
Photo of Golden Delicious apple surrounded by red apples
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has selected 11 recipients for the 2013 Distinguished Alumni, Faculty, and Staff Awards, which celebrate and recognize the accomplishments of outstanding individuals in each category. Following the college’s 50th anniversary in 2009, the awards were established as an annual event. Dean Christopher McCord will present the 2013 awards...
NIU Graduate School commencement, May 2013
NIU will host the fifth annual Graduate and Professional School (GPS) Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. The fair is free to all and is intended to help students and community members get a head start on their graduate and professional...
Thomas Kilbride
Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas L. Kilbride will present a lecture on professionalism from 4 to 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, in the Regency Room of the Holmes Student Center. Chief Justice Kilbride will discuss ethical issues and challenges for lawyers as part of the NIU College of Law’s Murer Speaker Series on Professionalism....
Huskies celebrate victory over Purdue.
The Northern Illinois University Huskies entered the Top 25 in the USA Today Weekly Coaches Poll at No. 23 this week, marking the earliest appearance in the Top 25 by an NIU team since 2003. In the Associated Press’ Week 6 rankings, the Huskies come in just outside the Top 25 in the “Others Receiving...
Tom Gebhardt returned to Northern Illinois University as part of the College of Business’ Executive in Residence Program, speaking to Ursula Sullivan’s Marketing Strategy 495 class Sept. 26. Gebhardt, a 1982 marketing alumnus, is now the president of Georgia-based Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, which provides systems and components to the North American automotive industry for creation of...
Beverly Henry
Beverly Henry, associate dean for Academic Affairs in the NIU College of Health and Human Sciences, is quoted in a series of articles running in several Shaw Suburban Media newspapers. Written to coincide with Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, which is marked every September, the three-day series focuses on childhood obesity and its effects on children....
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