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Just in time for Welcome Days and the beginning of the 2014-15 academic year, the new version of the NIU mobile app (3.0) is now available on both Android and iOS platforms. New features include: A fresh look (reskinned for iOS7) with flat icons; a directory module updated to allow department searches; a new what2do@NIU...
An upcoming high profile experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is already proving to be a boon for Northern Illinois University students in physics and engineering. On Saturday, July 26, Fermilab moved a 50-foot-wide superconducting electromagnet across its campus to a newly constructed experimental building. Made of steel, aluminum and superconducting wire, the magnet is...
Tammy Kordik is making art contagious with her students.
What’s in the water? Passersby have noticed that wooden arches have popped up in the Illinois and Michigan Canal near Ninth Street in Lockport. John Siblik, a Lemont native and alumnus of Northern Illinois University, banded branches together to make these 101 sculptures, which extend a half mile in the water as part of Lockport’s...
Summer researchers
NIU’s campus is buzzing with undergraduate research participants this summer. Students from both NIU and colleges and universities across the country have gathered to participate in eight weeks of formal programming. The students are focused into three programs: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), McKearn Summer Fellows and the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP). Each program...
About 10 years ago, Nay Yan Oo was working toward a degree in computer science at the Government Computer College in Pathein, Myanmar. But he kept running into a major snafu – access to a computer. “I got a degree in computer science but didn’t get many chances to use the computer lab,” says the...
University Village barbecue
Sometimes, it really does take a village – or, in the case of DeKalb, a University Village. NIU, University Village, the City of DeKalb Police Department, DeKalb County Community Gardens, DeKalb County KEYS/Ben Gordon Center, Kishwaukee Community Hospital, the Kishwaukee Family YMCA, Live Healthy DeKalb County, New Hope Baptist Church and Voluntary Action Center have come together to create...
Photo of an employee under stress
An employee in the office receives a flexible time schedule, much to the irritation of her coworkers, who must stick to the 9-to-5 regimen. Because she often arrives an hour or two after everyone else, peers are forced to re-arrange daily meeting schedules. They feel it’s unfair and inequitable. What this woman’s coworkers don’t know...
Daniel Wilson
Are you smarter than your smart phone? Can you outdrive a self-driving car? The technology we rely on is becoming more and more sophisticated. Could humanity survive if that technology turned evil? Daniel H. Wilson, who explores the possibility of a machine uprising in his novel “Robopocalypse,” will visit NIU and the Sycamore Public Library this...
Dog Days of Summer
Northern Illinois University alumni are invited to take advantage of great deals on summer events, from major league games to cruises. See the White Sox or Cardinals at a special price, enjoy discounts at Six Flags Great America, explore nature at The Morton Arboretum or take a cruise on the Chicago River. Visit the NIU...
#happyniu
Finals week doesn’t have to be all work and no play: Just ask any of the unsuspecting, yet enthusiastic dancers featured in the NIU Alumni Association’s #HappyNIU music video. For them, finals week 2014 was an opportunity to show just how happy they are to be part of the Huskie family. Participants took a break...
The NIU team that creates http://illinoisreportcard.com/ is celebrating national recognition for the online, interactive Illinois report card as one of the best in the nation. Education Commission of the States announced Thursday that the Illinois Report Card was the “only one in the nation to make the top picks for both parents and researchers, who...
Northern Illinois University President Doug Baker and Rock Valley College President Mike Mastroianni signed an innovative reverse transfer agreement during a Wednesday morning ceremony at the student center at the RVC main campus. The agreement allows eligible NIU students who transferred from RVC without associate degrees to earn the two-year degree using credit from NIU...
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