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Ryan Neir
Northern Illinois punter Ryan Neir is one of 69 candidates for the 2012 Ray Guy Award, presented to the nation’s top collegiate punter, the Augusta Sports Council announced Friday. Neir, a senior from Roscoe, Ill., is averaging 38.3 yards per punt for the 7-1 Huskies, who take on Western Michigan at 11 a.m. Saturday in...
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Pre-registration for next spring’s NIU Educators’ Job Fair opens Thursday, Nov. 1. NIU students and alumni are encouraged to pre-register early. Instructions on how to pre-register will be posted Nov. 1 on the Career Services’ website. The fair takes place Monday, Feb. 25, at the NIU Convocation Center. Qualified candidates have a chance to get...
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NIU has reached a new high-water mark in graduating its student-athletes, according to Thursday’s release of the Graduation Success Rate report from the National Collegiate Athletic Association. At 83 percent, Northern Illinois’ latest overall Graduation Success Rate (GSR) – which includes student-athletes who entered NIU between 2002-2003 and 2005-06 – is the highest in school...
NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology is getting a cutting-edge robotics and mechatronics lab with the help of corporate sponsor OMRON Global. OMRON Global is an international company that focuses on a wide variety of manufacturing automation products, producing motors, sensors, safety equipment and more. The company has proven quite successful, and leaders have...
As morning dawned Saturday, Oct. 20, on the NIU Convocation Center, thousands of spectators eagerly waited to see what the third annual STEMfest would have in store. Visitors from all over Illinois and Indiana traveled to DeKalb to witness a unique experience of science, technology, engineering and mathematics under one roof. STEMfest continues to grow...
Student Association President Delonte LeFlore will deliver the first-ever State of the Students Address at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30, in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium of the Holmes Student Center. All are invited. LeFlore will outline accomplishments and goals of the Student Association. As the SA’s 44th chief executive officer, LeFlore oversees more than 20...
Nabal Jefferson
Northern Illinois noseguard Nabal Jefferson (Chicago, Ill./Marist HS) has been named one of 15 winners of the 2012 National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete Award, presented by Fidelity Investments, and is a candidate for the 2012 William V. Campbell Trophy, endowed by HealthSouth, the NFF announced Wednesday. Jefferson is the second Huskie player to win the award...
Two NIU broadcast students spent this past summer preparing for their future careers by interning with professionals at ABC 7 Chicago (WLS-TV). One student, senior Jorge Rodas, spent 11 weeks shadowing reporter Evelyn Holmes and even got a chance to record an anchor reel as though he were doing a live broadcast. Although it never...
NIU Women's Resource Center
Join the Women’s Resource Center for engaging dialogue on hot-button topics that affect today’s college students. On Oct. 30, Victim Advocacy Services will be speaking about the impact of domestic violence in the media, in recognition of October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The Women’s Resource Center is seeking the thoughts, perspectives and opinions of...
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The NIU Department of Geography is hosting the annual meeting of the West Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers. This year’s meeting will be held jointly with the East Lakes Division. The meeting begins with an evening reception on Thursday, Oct. 25, and concludes with afternoon field trips on Saturday, Oct. 27. “Based...
S. Leo Chiang
Take a break from pre-election madness this week and journey back in time to November 2008, when the first Vietnamese-American, Anh “Joseph” Cao, was elected as a U.S. Representative to the 111th Congress – a Republican in a heavily Democratic district in New Orleans and the first Republican to represent the district since 1890. Mr....
Chicago Tribune political reporter Rick Pearson will visit campus to deliver a talk on the 2012 election. Sponsored by the Friends of NIU Libraries,the event will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in the staff lounge on the lower level of Founders Memorial Library. The event is open to the public. Pearson’s talk...
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