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Sergio Garcia
A team of six NIU students had the unique opportunity to act as consultants by providing social media and marketing strategies and recommendations to the university in a semester-long project that started in January through the College of Business’ Experiential Learning Center (ELC). The project was designed to find innovative ways of enticing potential students,...
Troy White
Northern Illinois third baseman Troy White was named one of three Mid-American Conference Male Scholar Athlete of the Week award winners for the week of May 9-15, the league announced Friday. The business administration major with a 3.217 cumulative GPA paced the Huskie offense with nine RBI as NIU took two of three games against...
Photo of a "New Home" sign
NIU Today, the official news and information website of Northern Illinois University, moved today to a new online home. The URL is now www.niutoday.info. Today’s move to a more reliable platform will enhance the performance of the site and facilitate future expansion of content. Launched last August by NIU’s Media Relations and Internal Communications team,...
AT&T executive Ralph de la Vega credits Northern Illinois University with helping prepare him for a career that has included guiding two of the largest mergers in telecommunications history. De la Vega, the CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, was the guest of honor Friday, May 6, at the college’s annual Alumni Luncheon at Harry Caray’s...
NIU engineering student Alan Hurt is traveling in Africa this summer to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and conduct research.
For most people, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro would be the highlight of their summer, or maybe even their life. For NIU engineering student Alan Hurt, it is just a start. Just hours after completing his last final exam of the semester, Hurt boarded a plane bound for Africa, carrying only a single rucksack containing a few...
SAP University Alliances logo
NIU’s College of Business was invited to be a member of the SAP University Alliances Community. SAP is dominant player in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software market. Academic institutions are invited into the SAP University Alliances Community only after meeting stringent criteria. Joining the SAP University Alliance Community will permit NIU business faculty to use SAP software and...
Bloomberg Businessweek - The Best Undergraduate B-Schools
The NIU College of Business added to its list of accolades this week with the release of more detailed information from the Bloomberg Businessweek rankings of business schools. Earlier this year, Bloomberg released the overall results, with NIU placing at number 84 out of more than 600 eligible AACSB-certified business schools. This week a more...
Lynn Neeley
Lynn Neeley, a professor in the Department of Management in the NIU College of Business, has won funding from the Coleman Foundation. As part of the approved funding, Neeley was designated to serve as project coordinator for a new Coleman Foundation Faculty Fellowship program at NIU. As project coordinator, Neeley identified two Faculty Fellows to collaborate with on...
Mike Krause
Northern Illinois defensive lineman Mike Krause, who finished his Huskie career in 2010 with a 3.427 grade point average, 60 career tackles and nine-and-a-half quarterback sacks, has earned membership in the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame’s Hampshire Honor Society for 2011. Krause is one of eight Mid-American Conference student-athletes named to the...
Book cover of "This I Believe II"
If you were asked to write a 500-word essay about a strongly held belief, what would you say?  New NIU students will have the opportunity to answer that question next fall when the book “This I Believe II,” edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman, is part of the curriculum in some first-year course sections. The...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has announced four appointments to the governing board of Northern Illinois University. Newcomers Anthony A. Iosco and Robert T. Marshall Jr. begin new terms, while veteran trustees Marc J. Strauss and Cherilyn G. Murer were reappointed to the board. The appointments to six-year terms are effective immediately and will require Illinois...
Logo of the NIU Alumni Association
Every spring, the NIU Alumni Association recognizes the achievements of exemplary alumni through a series of prestigious awards. Winners of the Outstanding Alumni Awards for each of NIU’s academic colleges join recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award, the F. R. Geigle Service Award and the Outstanding Young Alumni Award. Recipients are selected based on professional and personal...
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