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Registration is open for the second annual Undergraduate Research & Artistry Day. This year’s event will take place Wednesday, April 20, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. Any undergraduate student currently enrolled at NIU who has participated in a faculty-mentored creative or research project is encouraged to showcase his or her work. ...
A team of NIU scientists, with a major role played by NIU Ph.D. students, has discovered a new, convenient and inexpensive way to make high performance hydrogen sensors using palladium nanowires. The technology could help enable a scale-up for potential industrial applications, such as safety monitors in future hydrogen-powered vehicles. Highly flammable hydrogen gas cannot...
Now that the holidays are over and a new year of work has begun, thoughts usually turn to taking the time to improve personal health and wellness. Recreation Services offers NIU faculty and staff affordable memberships at a convenient, on-campus location. Members enjoy access to the Student Recreation Center (SRC), Chick Evans Field House (FH),...
They haven’t put NIU’s new 28-foot-long, 2,200-pound robotic submarine in the water yet, but geologists Ross Powell and Reed Scherer have already made a big splash. The submarine, which will be used to explore melting near the base of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, was a big hit as it was unveiled in mid-December at the American...
Longtime piano teacher Sara Vogeler combines a love for children’s books and the joy of teaching music to a new music class for preschool age children. Offered by the NIU Community School of the Arts, Musical Tales begins Tuesday, Jan. 18. The class is for children ages 3 to 5 and their parents. “I’ve always loved...
NIU student group Mortar Board, in collaboration with the Honors Program and the Women’s Resource Center, are joining forces to collect gowns for the second annual Project Prom. The gown and accessories collection is happening now and will continue through 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17. From 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19, and Sunday, Feb. 20,...
Supporting Opportunities for Latinos (SóL) invites Latino males to the Latino Resource Center at 5 p.m. every Thursday. SóL was founded in 2006 in an effort to increase the retention and graduation rates of Latino males at NIU. SóL is a network of students, staff and faculty dedicated to assisting Latino males in navigating their academic...
NIU professor and historian Nancy M. Wingfield, selected for a Fulbright Fellowship by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, is spending this fall semester in Ukraine researching humankind’s oldest profession: prostitution. Wingfield is currently hosted by Chernivtsi National University in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, where she is completing research on a book-length manuscript on prostitution in...
Northern Illinois won its ninth-straight game and the outright Mid-American Conference West Division title with a dominating 71-3 victory over Eastern Michigan at Rynearson Stadium on Friday afternoon. “The big thing is I am proud the team – they have gone to Ball State and Eastern Michigan in some tough atmospheres and they just like playing...
Northern Illinois volleyball’s historic season continues as freshman outside hitter Lauren Wicinski was welcomed into uncharted territory for the Mid-American Conference at the league’s annual awards banquet on Thursday night at Crowne Plaza Hotel. The conference’s leader in points, kills and aces was named MAC Player of the Year, as voted on by the league’s...
The Friends of NIU Libraries and the NIU School of Music invite the public to attend a free New Music Ensemble concert and pre-concert lecture beginning at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 29, in the Music Building’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran of the University of Chicago, David M. Gordon of Wheaton College...
The parties were gathered Tuesday morning in the Lincoln Room at the Holmes Student Center: Japan, Micronesia, the United Nations, the World Wildlife Fund and the U.S. Department of State. Their task: to resolve a mounting depletion of Pacific fish population by getting everyone at the table to agree to the same plan of action...
