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The Office of Student Engagement & Experiential Learning continues to host a brown bag lecture series to showcase research, artistry and community engagement projects completed by students who have received funding through the Student Engagement Fund and Undergraduate Special Opportunities in Research & Artistry. Physics major Waturu Hashimoto and biological sciences major Maria Weston will...

The University Bookstore, located in the lower level of the Holmes Student Center, will close for inventory from Saturday, March 12, through Sunday, March 20. The temporary closure comes during spring break. Regular store hours resume Monday, March 21. For more information, call (815) 753-1081.

NIU Chief Diversity Officer Vernese Edghill-Walden will attend the OHANA! Peer Mentor Program at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, to hear about the needs of Asian and Asian American students at NIU. The event takes place in the Capital Room of the Holmes Student Center. Members of the student-led Asian American Center Renovation Committee will...

NIU Student Association elections are coming soon. To be eligible for the ballot, candidates for the executive branch and the senate must attend at least one of two meetings: Tuesday, March 1, 6 p.m. Campus Life Building Room 100 Wednesday, March 2, 4 p.m. Holmes Student Center, Room 305 Prospective candidates will receive information on...

The NIU Department of Mathematical Sciences will host a regional mathematics competition from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, at DuSable Hall and the Altgeld Auditorium. More than 400 students from 16 high schools will participate in the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ICTM) Regional High School Mathematics Contest. Individual and team...

At the next STEM Café, “Predicting the Primaries: How Math Shapes Presidential Elections,” Department of Political Science Chair Matt Streb will explore the nitty-gritty of election polls, discussing how they work, how they are analyzed and how they can affect outcomes. The free talk and discussion will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday,...

Each year, Illinois gets hit with more than 60 tornadoes, on average, and ranks in the Top 10 for the most tornadoes of any state in the nation. The odds of one or more tornadoes hitting a portion of DeKalb County is at least one in three every year. Our area also encounters 60 mph...

Six talented young musicians – recipients of talent scholarship awarded by the NIU Community School of the Arts – will perform Saturday, Feb. 27, on campus. The annual Honors Recital begins at 1:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Music Building at NIU. The concert is free and open to the public, and the...

NIU men’s basketball senior Chuck Iroegbu has been selected as one of college basketball’s Top 16 “dark horse dunkers,” a head-to-head, bracket-style competition to determine the final participant in the Slam Dunk Championship presented by State Farm. Winners of each round are selected online through fan votes. Quarterfinal round voting ends at noon Wednesday, Feb....

The NIU School of Theatre and Dance’s upcoming Mainstage Series production is a Restoration comedy about three young women who find ways to bypass the rules of courtship and marriage. Opening Thursday, Feb. 25, “The Lucky Chance” by Aphra Behn, is the story of three friends: one woman already married and two others about to...

NIU Law alumnus Russell Slifer (’94), deputy under Secretary of Commerce for intellectual property and deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, will speak twice this week at his alma mater. Slifer will present “Protecting and Profiting From Your Ideas: Intellectual Property Protection and Value Creation” from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb....

For some, the recent holiday season invokes memories of food overflowing on dining room tables. But for many on college campuses across the country, an abundance of food is far from the reality. Several national media outlets – the Atlantic, the New York Times and Rolling Stone, among others – recently carried stories about hidden...