Category: Community
This just in… When Andy Carrigan, ’16, is dedicated to something, there is no stopping him!Since earning his B.S. in media studies in 2016, Carrigan has been working his way up at WREX, the NBC affiliate in Rockford, Illinois, first as a photographer, then as an award-winning producer, assignment editor and now as the TV...
The Huskie Food Pantry, which last fall observed the five-year anniversary of its current campus location, is entering 2022 with fresh ideas. This month, the pantry received $5,000 in gift cards from Meijer grocery, chosen by employees at the Sycamore branch for the franchise’s “Meijer Team Give” program. While also supported by donations, drives and...
When NIU STEM Café coordinator Judith Dymond met filmmaker Michael Lahey, a seed of an idea took root, one that’s culminating in this month’s STEM Café on the art and science of candy making. Lahey, who earned his Master of Arts in English from NIU, is the maker of the documentary Shelf Life: The Story...
Huskies will have the opportunity to showcase their efforts in undergraduate research and other engagement projects during the Conference on Undergraduate Research and Engagement (CURE), which takes place April 25-29, 2022. The five-day event, formerly known as Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day (URAD) and the Community Engagement Showcase (CES), will take place online and in-person...
Gracie Strohm helped in the crafting department, filling penguin water bottles, gluing paper wreaths and sealing winter sensory bags. The senior and fellow Huskies from the School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders welcomed community members and their children to the Autism Caregiver Group Holiday event at NIU’s Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic on Dec. 1. “It is...
Regional high school students learn the fundamentals of AI at a four-week summer camp hosted by Argonne and Northern Illinois University. The term artificial intelligence, or AI, is used to describe everything from facial recognition technology used in airports to smart vacuum cleaners used in homes. But what is AI and how does it work?...
Things just got a little greener at NIU’s Child Development and Family Center (CDFC) thanks to a generous grant from the DeKalb County Community Foundation. For Kristin Schulz, executive director of the CDFC, the $11,550 grant means there will be less waste going to area landfills. “We are so grateful to the DeKalb County Community...
The FLEX group tours the Rec Center. The topic of the day was, appropriately enough, confidence and self-efficacy. In other words, Associate Professor Jenn Jacobs told her students in KNPE 310: Psychological Aspects of Sport and Exercise, the power of the mind. Or, she clarified, the perception of one’s ability to perform a specific task successfully. “My favorite...
Seventh-graders from Clinton Rosette Middle School stood in a circle, each clutching a several-feet-long string tied to the same marker. Their task: cooperate to insert that marker into the mouth of a 20-ounce plastic bottle. First, they remained still as they pulled tightly or loosened their individual grips to position the marker over the target and then...
Join the NIU College of Law for the next Race and the Law Conversation on “Cannabis and Restorative Justice” on Tuesday, November 16 at 6:00 p.m. with alumna Toi W. Hutchinson (’14), Senior Advisor to Governor Pritzker on Cannabis Control. NIU Law Professor Wendy Vaughn will moderate. Tuesday, November 16, 2021 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. CST Register...
If you’ve enjoyed the beauty this fall of NIU’s East Lagoon and Montgomery Woods, the latter of which is home to a pair of great horned owls, you can thank our community of environmentally minded students, faculty, staff and alumni. A portion of the western shoreline of NIU’s iconic East Lagoon, the creek that feeds...
Four faculty members and two students received the Richard A. Flournory Award in recognition of their efforts to promote inclusivity at NIU. Dawn Brown, Joseph Flynn, Harvey Green, Janice Hamlet, Lichuan Liu and Brittany Price were honored during the Richard A. Flournory Homecoming Inclusion Reception in October. Sponsored by the Office of Academic Diversity, Equity...
