The Northern Illinois men’s golf team will commence on a 108-hole, four-day road trip beginning Saturday, Oct. 2, at Illinois State’s D.A. Weibring Intercollegiate. “It will be an excellent test of the depth of our roster as we compete twice this weekend,
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The Northern Illinois women’s tennis team will be back on the courts today to compete in the UIC Invitational, hosted by University of Illinois-Chicago. The invite consists of UIC, NIU and Chicago State playing a one-day tournament with two draws, one for
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The Northern Illinois women’s soccer team will continue Mid-American Conference play this weekend when the Huskies host Buffalo and Kent State in a pair of weekend contests at the NIU Soccer and Track & Field Complex. NIU will host the Bulls at 4 p.m. Friday,
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NIU’s School of Theatre and Dance will open its small venue Studio Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, with the BA Showcase. The performance of two short plays written by John Guare will highlight the talents of undergraduate theater students. “Something I’ll Tell
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James Russell Brown, professor of organ at NIU, will present the second concert in the School of Music’s organ concert series at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. He will perform on the beautiful 1983 Martin Ott
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Two years ago, NIU’s popular Haunted Physics Laboratory was supersized into Spooky Science Saturday. Now the event, which uses Halloween themes to teach young people about the wonders of science, is about to get exponentially bigger. NIU is gearing up to hold
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NIU’s annual Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute, hosted by the Office of the Provost and the Committee on Multicultural Curriculum Transformation, will take place May 16 to May 20 next spring at the Holmes Student Center. Full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty, instructors and supportive professional staff are invited to
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A retirement specialist from the State Universities Retirement System (SURS) will be on campus from Monday, Nov. 8, through Wednesday, Nov. 10, to meet with individual employees to discuss retirement estimates. Meetings will take place inthe Holmes Student Center. The deadline to schedule
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Exactly 105 years have passed since NIU began teaching the arts of foods and sewing. But pinpointing the birth of home economics as an academic discipline – and not just an unpaid profession for many women – opens the history books to
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Author, feminist and activist Carol J. Adams will visit NIU to speak on “The Sexual Politics of Meat” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium of the Holmes Student Center. Adams’ lecture will explore the animalizing of women in contemporary
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The NIU Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Ronnie Wooten, will present a tribute to legendary collegiate band conductors Harry Begian and William P. Foster during an 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, concert in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. The program will include
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NIU’s Division of International Programs will hosts its fall 2010 Brown Bag Series from 12 noon to 1 p.m. Thursdays in John E. La Tourette Hall Room 300. Attendees are invited to bring a lunch and listen to speakers covering a variety
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