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The Division of Research and Innovation Partnerships (RIPS) has built an impressive new front porch. RIPS recently launched a dynamic Research and Innovation website to celebrate the “local focus and global reach” of NIU efforts, highlight faculty and student innovators and provide an extensive resource to potential partners from outside the university. Content from the...
NIU has been selected as an education partner for the Amazon Career Choice program, providing Amazon’s hourly employees with financial support to pursue NIU undergraduate degrees and certificates. Amazon employees who have completed 90 days with the company are now eligible for the Amazon Career Choice program at NIU. Career Choice is Amazon’s pre-paid tuition...
The NIU School of Music is collaborating with the NIU Division of Academic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Asian American Certificate Program; Latino Resource Center; and Asian American Resource Center to put together the 2023 World Music Festival, Many Voices, One Community Celebrations of Music and Cultures in Our Time that will take place from April...
It has been almost four decades since the last meaningful immigration reform was passed, five decades since the stonewall riots, and six decades since the civil rights movement. Year after year, the necessity to continue these fights has grown immensely. Today more than ever, it is crucial to honor and build upon these movements. This...
An upcoming OFP Kick-Off event encourages faculty and staff to experience first-hand what it’s like to be an incoming Huskie. NIU’s Orientation and First Year Programs is hosting the event—described as a mock orientation day—from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 24, at the Holmes Student Center. Faculty and staff are invited to come...
The annual Diversity and Inclusion luncheon for the Presidential Commission on Race and Ethnicity (PCORE) will take place on Friday, April 7 at noon in Ellington’s located in the Holmes Student Center. Students, staff, faculty and members of the community are invited to attend all or parts of the summit. Those interested in attending are...
For well over a decade, NIU STEAM has offered science, technology, engineering, arts and math camps for elementary through high school students on the campus of Northern Illinois University. This experience made NIU STEAM, in the Division of Outreach, Engagement and Regional Development, an ideal partner for Associate Professor Bryan Dallas, who recently won a...
On March 29, 2022 students in Jessica Labatte’s ARTD 464 Advanced Photography Post Production class set a Guinness World’s Record for the largest paper snowflake when they made one that is 44 feet and six inches. It was more than double the previous world record holder. The record has been certified by the Guinness Book...
Committed to rapid decarbonization of campus, NIU earned one of nine pro bono consulting awards given to higher education institutions throughout the country. Second Nature, a non-governmental organization focused on accelerating climate action in and through higher education, announced the pro bono consulting awards this month. NIU will work with Second Nature partner Coho, a...
The network is continuing this important work from its new home in the NIU Division of Outreach, Engagement and Regional Development. In 2022 the Illinois MTSS Network(IL MTSS-N) became part of the NIU Division of Outreach Engagement and Regional Development, joining the Illinois P-20 Network,  Illinois Interactive Report Cards Office, NIU STEAM and other programs...
Representation Matters! Creating Pipelines and Pathways in Promoting Faculty Diversity and Social Justice in Higher Education was the conference theme for the eighth annual statewide conference that brought over 100 graduate students of color representing 18 different universities to NIU in late February. NIU and other college and university faculty presented information about the professoriate...
The show must go on—even when finances are scarce! Growing up in McHenry, Illinois, Katryna Weingart, ’21, was a determined student and always interested in writing, theater and music—basically, anything related to performance arts and humanities. During high school, a caring teacher made all the difference to Weingart and helped her set sights on becoming one...
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