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Kid Cudi
Kid Cudi, a Brooklyn-based rapper from Cleveland, will perform Friday, March 29, at the NIU Convocation Center. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; the show begins at 7:30 p.m. Special guest to be determined. Tickets for Kid Cudi go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 1. Tickets for the floor are general admission and are...
A Bright Room Called Day
The upcoming mainstage theatre production of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance explores how far politics can become intimately intertwined with individual values and personal judgment. Playwright Tony Kushner’s “A Bright Room Called Day,” based on Bertolt Brecht’s 1938 play, “The Private Life of the Master Race,” will run from Thursday, Jan. 31, through...
DeKalb Sycamore Chevrolet Cadillac GMC and Northern Illinois Athletics are giving three lucky fans chances to win new cars at upcoming NIU basketball games. One fan will have a chance to compete in a halftime contest and win a car at each of the Huskie men’s basketball games Saturday, Feb. 2, and Saturday, March 2,...
Logo of the NIU Foundation
The newly revamped NIU Foundation Venture Grants program moves into full swing Friday, Jan. 25, when five NIU faculty members will begin recruiting teams to help them move their inventions from concept to commercial reality. The event is planned from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Thurgood Marshall Gallery of Swen Parson Hall. Participating faculty,...
U.S. News & World Report this week ranked the NIU College of Education’s online graduate program fourth in the nation, testimony to the college’s commitment to providing innovative solutions to students’ ever-evolving needs. This year marks the first time the magazine has ranked online college and graduate degree programs, a nod to the ever-increasing demand...
“Arranging Nature,” installations composed of insects pinned directly to a wall in repeating patterns which reference both textiles and wallpaper, will open Friday, Jan. 18, at NIU’s Jack Olson Gallery. The exhibition was created by artist Jennifer Angus, a professor in the Design Studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “A tension is created by the...
Leila Porter, an NIU professor of anthropology, is up to some serious monkey business. She spent last summer in a Bolivian rain forest, tracking and catching some very peculiar primates known as saddle-back tamarins, before releasing them back into the wild. The squirrel-sized monkeys, from the family Callitrichidae, are closely related to the more well-known...
Composite image of Akeem Daniels and book cover of "NIU Football"
As NIU Huskie football fans continue to bask in the glow of the team’s historic New Year’s Day appearance in the 2013 Orange Bowl, the Northern Illinois University Press is adding to excitement. “NIU Football,” a new book by Dan Verdun, is expected to publish in March.  The press is offering a 30 percent discount to...
The Chessicks cheer on the Huskies in the Orange Bowl.
The Northern Illinois University College of Law Alumni Council recently honored two of its most generous donors and passionate advocates. Kenneth (’84) and Ellen Chessick were honored in December at an NIU Law reception held at Chicago’s Sheraton Hotel. Hosted by Dean Jennifer Rosato and the NIU Law Board of Visitors, the event took place...
Go Huskies!
There was no official proclamation. No formal ceremony. To anyone paying attention, however, it was obvious that Florida A1A in Ft. Lauderdale had been transformed into “Huskie Way” for New Year’s Day 2013. Members of the Huskie Nation were out in force on the sidewalks, on the sand and in the waves, and they didn’t...
Altgeld Hall in winter
2012 was a busy year on campus. NIU Today spent most of December counting down the top 25 stories of 2012, topped by the Huskie football team’s historic bid to the Discover Orange Bowl. The list also included the October announcement from NIU President John Peters that he plans to step aside in June. We...
Top 20 Christmas titles most often anthologized (With number of occurrences) 1. “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement C. Moore (31) 2. “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens (28) 3. “The Fir-Tree” by Hans Christian Andersen (24) 4. Excerpts from “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame (18) “Is There a Santa Claus?”...
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