Cancer, AIDS and other serious diseases were considered fatal until very recently. Although not all of these illnesses have cures, people with these and other chronic illnesses are living longer and fuller lives. What scientific and medical advances are helping people to live
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Take yourself out to the ballgame, Wednesday, July 3, when NIU Police and other members of area law enforcement will take on local firefighters in a charity softball game to raise money for Special Olympics. The event is sponsored by Johnsonville Brats,
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WNIJ has added a full-time reporter to cover education issues in the northern Illinois area. Peter Medlin joined the station as a part-time reporter in 2018 and has already produced a number of feature reports on topics like teacher shortages, vocational training
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Molly Holmes works behind-the-scenes so the needs of the LGBTQIA+ community are front and center. As director of the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center, Holmes leads the charge on advocacy and equity for all genders and sexual identities in order to make
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NIU is home to a diverse, vibrant and engaged LGBTQIA+ community and they are poised to share their stories with fellow Huskies. For more than two decades the LGBTQIA+ Speakers Bureau has been an important resource for students, faculty, staff and members
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The Child Development and Family Center (CDFC) began accepting applications for its all-day Preschool for All Expansion program June 17. The program is free for families who qualify. NIU received Illinois State Board of Higher Education funding for the Preschool for All
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NIU’s Duke Ellington Ballroom (located in the Holmes Student Center) will once again be the setting for a three-day celebration of ballroom dancing when the “Let’s Dance” Big Band Weekend returns Friday to Sunday, July 19-21. All levels of jazz and social
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NIU STEAM recently designed lesson plans to accompany the educational video game “Breaking Boundaries in Science,” produced by the Madison, Wisconsin-based educational video game developer Filament Games. The game, a free virtual reality celebration of some of history’s most influential women scientists,
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More than 13,000 pounds of items have been diverted from landfills and will end up in the homes of savvy shoppers thanks to a partnership between NIU and Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois. The Goodwill Move-Out campaign encourages Huskies to donate items
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On Saturday, May 4, NIU Esports hosted the first Illinois high school Overwatch state finals championship, organized by the Illinois High School Esports Association (IHSEA). NIU Esports Club members volunteered as student ambassadors, and the new NIU Naperville Esports Café shone as
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Due to changing demographics, data analytics, and enhanced training and nutrition regimens, sports have changed significantly in recent years. How have women’s sports grown in recent decades as more girls and women embrace the opportunity to play? How have sports changed at
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Joyce Laben As a former middle school principal and assistant principal in the McHenry County towns of Woodstock and Cary, Joyce Laben knows well the value of listening to the “stakeholders” at those institutions. It’s something she stresses in the EPS 512:
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