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Huskies, come on, you Huskies! We are counting on our community, once again, to come together to make a difference during this year’s Huskies United day of giving, which begins the afternoon of Wednesday, June 22, and run until 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, June 23. Traditionally, this is a day when NIU alumni, staff, faculty,...
Northern Public Radio – the broadcast arm of NIU – is increasing coverage of agriculture, water and environmental issues with a new Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk. The coverage will look at climate change and environmental issues through a local lens and will be aired on WNIJ 89.5, online at wnij.org and through...
NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology(CEET) congratulates the teams that were presented with awards from the Engineering and Technology Alumni Society on Senior Design Day on Friday, May 6, 2022 at the NIU Convocation Center. More than 1,300 visitors were present to see the showcase of the Senior Design program, which is a course...
Brooke Benford is majoring in biomedical engineering, but on April 15, she showed off her culinary skills. Along with fellow John Henrik Clarke Honor Society members Britiany Wilson, Imani Jones, Jacy Rogers, Nina Tackett, Kianna Graves and Daija Hammonds, the NIU junior spent the afternoon cooking on campus so that others could enjoy a delicious...
When Chad Glover helped Northern Illinois University create the 40TUDE student consulting teams, he believed that they could achieve the twin goals of giving students real-world experience while providing a service to the community. Now, as community coordinator of Opportunity DeKalb, he is seeing that vision come to fruition. Opportunity DeKalb is a nonprofit community...
Spend a day being amazed by more than 150 senior engineering students as they display the capstone projects they’ve been working on all year. On May 6, the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) invites the public to attend its annual Senior Design Demonstration Day at the NIU Convocation Center from noon to 4...
Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (Illinois District 14) visited NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) on Monday, April 25 to learn about its cleanroom laboratory, also called Microelectronics Research and Development Laboratory (MRDL). University officials say the cleanroom lab offers many benefits to the northern Illinois region in the form of education, workforce training and...
While NIU Cares has transformed from an annual day of service to an ongoing campaign, one main catalyst to get involved this year will be a Community-wide Cleanup next Friday, April 22, 2022. Huskies can register by Monday, April 18 to take part in this special event taking place across the campus of Northern Illinois...
The NIU Autism Caregiver Group welcomed caregivers and children to the Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic on March 24 where Jessica Wexell and Autumn Gabriel, of DeKalb-based RAMP Center for Independent Living (CIL), were the guest speakers. “I really appreciated the engaging conversation between the caregivers and the RAMP representatives,” said Allison Gladfelter, associate professor of Speech-Language Pathology...
The Northern Illinois University Chemistry Club invites the public to its annual Chemistry Demo Night at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 8, in Faraday Hall, room 143. The theme of the free event is “Mike and Sully’s Chemistry Clash,” featuring experiments and characters based on Monster’s Inc. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. “The interactive show is sure to surprise and delight!” says...
An interactive audio exhibit that builds on the work of last year’s “Faces of Belonging” collaboration, “Voices of Belonging” will run from March 31-April 14 in NIU’s Founders Memorial Library. Voices of Belonging is a collaboration among NIU’s Northern Public Radio (WNIU/WNIJ), the Divisions of Outreach, Engagement and Regional Development and Academic Diversity, Equity and...
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences proudly welcomes journalist and author Ray Suarez as the next guest in their Rebuilding Democracy Lecture Series at 7 p.m. CDT April 5. The event, conducted on Zoom, will feature a discussion between Suarez and Dean Robert Brinkmann on the role of media, freedom of the press, distortion...
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