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Brad Paisley
Country music superstar Brad Paisley’s extension of his Country Nation World Tour will include a show Thursday, Feb. 5, at the NIU Convocation Center. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 21. Special guests on the tour will be Stoney Creek Records family band Parmalee and Arista Nashville recording duo The Swon Brothers....
Snow on the NIU campus
With the unseasonably frigid air this week, memories resurfaced of last winter’s biting cold, brought on by the dreaded polar vortex. But as NIU climatologist David Changnon points out, it’s not simply the cold that makes us miserable. Changnon, who has been studying the impacts of last winter for an upcoming publication, can describe the...
Blur photo of Times Square lights
“Got Broadway Rhythm, Everybody Dance!” – the upcoming Northern Illinois University School of Theatre & Dance presentation – will feature eight dance numbers from several of the all-time most popular Broadway musicals, such as “Grease,” “RENT,” “The Pajama Game,” “A Chorus Line” and more. The shows open Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Huntley Middle School...
Business & Society TLC students
First-year students are now able to enroll in one of the four Themed Learning Communities being offered in Spring 2015 by the Office of Student Engagement & Experiential Learning. Students can now enroll in the following TLCs for Spring 2015: Artists as Agents for Change Business & Society Making a Difference: Service in Society Superheroes...
Telepressure!
[vsw id=”R4c0CO4NmfI” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] Here’s a new techno-term that will likely resonate among many modern-day office employees: “workplace telepressure.” Northern Illinois University psychology researchers, who coined the term, define it as an urge to quickly respond to emails, texts and voicemails – regardless of whatever else is happening or whether one is even...
Marquis Hill
UPDATE: Marquis Hill is the winner! Congratulations! Marquis Hill, a 2009 alumnus of the NIU School of Music, is a semifinalist in the Thelonius Monk International Jazz Competition. Widely regarded as the most prestigious jazz competition in the world, this year’s competition is strictly for trumpeters. Hill will join 12 other trumpeters Saturday, Nov. 8,...
Athletics Facilities Master Plan
Sean T. Frazier, associate vice president and director of NIU Intercollegiate Athletics, unveiled today the department’s Facility Master Plan. The NIU Athletics Facility Master Plan, a comprehensive document that will help chart the future of Huskie Athletics, provides for the creation of three new athletics facilities for baseball, tennis and Olympic sports, as well as...
Photo of plastic skeleton fingers typing on a computer keyboard
Prolonged use of a tablet’s touch-screen keyboard can cause shoulder discomfort. That’s according to a group of researchers, led by Northern Illinois University Assistant Professor Jeong Ho (Jay) Kim, who compared the musculoskeletal impact and typing productivity differences between desktop, notebook and touchscreen keyboards. The study, published in the November issue of Applied Ergonomics, found...
Student-parents Destiny Engels (left) and Heather Theissing study in the North Corner Room of Campus Child Care while their sons, Randal and Jeremiah, play.
Lisa Hackney, a junior studying nutrition sciences, commutes to NIU each day from rural Freeport. Despite the 70-minute drives every morning and every afternoon, the sun in her eyes both ways, she’s rocking straight A’s this semester – and her son Sawyer, who turns 4 in December, is along for the ride. Hackney attributes some...
Tim Hodson
[vsw id=”oVtlIB-EbXg” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] The coastline, or grounding zone, where the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet atop land meets the Ross Sea, is considered an important piece of the puzzle for scientists working to predict the effect of climate change on rising seawaters, which threaten coastal cities worldwide. Yet researchers have never laid...
Huskie Marching Band color guard
Come relive the musical highlights of football halftime shows Thursday, Nov. 6, when the NIU Huskie Marching Band performs its annual year-end concert at the Convocation Center. The marching band, the drumline, the color guard and the Silverettes will present favorite pieces from this autumn’s Brigham Field extravaganzas as well as some of the familiar...
Ashley Sands
The 2014-15 cohort of Research Rookies has been named. NIU’s Research Rookies Program links undergraduate freshmen, sophomore, and first-semester transfer students with faculty mentors in their major or area of interest to conduct a small-scale research project. A total of 49 NIU undergraduate students have been named as Research Rookies for the program’s fifth year...
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