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Michael Day
Michael Day, professor of English and director of First-Year Composition at NIU, recently hosted the Centennial Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), which drew 6,800 English teachers from across the country and overseas. The convention was held the week of Nov. 17 at the Chicago Hilton and Palmer House. As general...
NIU Human Resource Services will host its annual blood drive Tuesday, Dec. 6. It will be held on the Heartland Blood Centers’ Mobile Coach, which will be located in the HR parking lot at 1515 W. Lincoln Hwy. in DeKalb. The blood drive will run from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. The donation process takes about...
NIU President John G. Peters today unveiled a new Vision 2020 Initiative website that allows faculty, staff, students and the public to follow progress made toward  university goals in a wide range of areas, including student success, student recruitment, academic enrichment and faculty research. “This website holds us accountable, because as time goes by, one...
Dennis Barsema
The DeKalb County Chapter of Women in Management, Inc. will host a holiday luncheon Tuesday, Dec. 6, featuring a presentation by Dennis Barsema, social entrepreneur and instructor in the NIU College of Business. Social entrepreneurship recognizes social problems and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create and manage a venture to achieve positive social change. Barsema...
Rosita Lopez
The National Latino Education Institute (NLEI) has recognized Rosita Lopez as its Hispanic Hero. Lopez is an associate professor in the Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology & Foundations in the NIU College of Education and chair of the board of directors of Casa Central, one of the largest Hispanic non-profit organizations in the United States....
NIU’s Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic is a shining example of a “crazy idea that worked.” So said LeRoy Pernell, former dean of the NIU College of  Law, to a crowd of nearly 100 faculty, staff, alumni and supporters who gathered Wednesday, Nov. 16, to mark the clinic’s first decade of service to the Rockford community....
NIU College of Law students stand outside the doors of the Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic in downtown Rockford.
The NIU College of Law’s Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic has been changing lives for a decade, both for the clients it serves and the students who work there. The clinic marked its 10th anniversary by hosting an event Wednesday, Nov. 16, that included Mike Madigan, speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. Madigan was a protégé of...
As the last of STEMfest’s 4,000 participants trickled out of the Convocation Center Oct. 22, they were still buzzing with the day’s excitement. “The lasers are cool! The static electricity is cool!” one young girl chattered to her parents. She looked out over the festival floor’s hundreds of hands-on exhibits and threw out her arms...
Photo of two men under the glare of a magnifying glass
NIU’s Civic Leadership Academy will offer two workshops in December. “The Freedom of Information Act and What It Means for Your Organization” is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 6. “The Open Meetings Act and Roles of Public Officials” takes place Tuesday, Dec. 13. Both are half-day workshops held from 9 a.m. to noon. Each workshop will...
From left: Ed Dalton, Patrick Dalton and Kelsey (Dalton) Thompson
Albinism. Some have heard the word before, but few people fully understand the difficulties a person with albinism faces. Individuals with albinism lack pigmentation, usually in the hair, skin and eyes. The lack of pigmentation in the eyes causes visual impairments and can also cause nystagmus (involuntary movements of the eyes). While these impairments can...
Sample Illinois driver's license
NIU students, faculty, staff and local residents can renew driver’s licenses and state IDs, purchase annual vehicle license plate stickers, register as organ and tissue donors or conduct other transactions on campus at a mobile office of the Illinois Secretary of State. In addition, NIU collegiate license plates will be available for purchase. Twenty-five dollars...
Photo of a hand holding a mobile phone displaying the FBI's Child ID App
The FBI has a new tool to help locate missing children. The Child ID App is the FBI’s first mobile application for smart phones. It makes a parent’s iPhone a convenient place to electronically store photos and vital information on their children so that it is literally right at your fingertips if ever needed. A...
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