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Courtney Oldenburg
Northern Illinois junior Courtney Oldenburg was named to the Cross Country Academic All-Mid-American Conference Team, the league office announced Tuesday. Oldenburg, who hails from West Salem, Wis., earned the honor for the second straight season after posting a 3.91 GPA in nursing. “I’m proud of Courtney,” NIU cross country coach Greg Hipp said. “She’s done...
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NIU’s Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center is seeking nominations for the 2012 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards. These awards acknowledge outstanding graduate teaching assistants for their contributions to the teaching mission of NIU. Each recipient of the award will be presented with a plaque and recognized at the Graduate Students Reception sponsored by the Graduate School at...
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Campus Recreation welcomes its members to join the Rec Rewards Program. This incentive program is free and designed to help members get motivated to become a healthier and happier. Points are awarded for healthy lifestyle choices made through Campus Recreation. As the points add up, members receive prizes for all the work they have done. It’s...
Photo of a woman on a stationary bicycle at the Rec Center.
Help keep that New Year’s resolution and purchase your faculty/staff membership to Campus Recreation. Membership includes more than 100 hours a week of open recreation at the Student Recreation Center, Chick Evans Field House and Gabel and Anderson pools. Along with open recreation, the faculty/staff membership also includes an unlimited Huskie FitPass, which allows members...
Thomas Skomski, Unknown with Priapus, Glass, Water, Steel & Felt, 1992
“New to the Collection” opens Tuesday, Jan. 10, at the NIU Art Museum. This exhibition showcases several artworks that recently were donated to the NIU Art Museum Collection. Museum administrators currently do not have a separate budget for purchasing artwork and are grateful for the many donations received in recent years. The museum will show...
Last year, 8,101 NIU undergraduate students received need-based financial aid in the form of state, federal and institutional grants. However, hundreds of thousands of eligible Illinois college students missed out on state financial aid by not completing the required Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) soon enough. For this new year, the NIU Office...
Media Services will offer training Monday, Jan. 9, in the audio-visual systems at Cole Hall. Cole 106 SCALE UP classroom: 10 a.m. to noon. Cole 100 auditorium: 1 to 3 p.m. These sessions are open to all faculty and will be conducted by Sound, Inc., the audiovisual subcontractor who built the rooms. NIU Media Services...
Armed with a business plan that could provide inexpensive electrical power to families across the developing world, Team Light Up Africa took top honors in the first ever Social Venture Business Plan Competition at Northern Illinois University. Their ambitious plan to build and sell small generator/battery storage units – which can be powered by the...
For most college students, the only thing on the line during final exams is a grade. However, for one class in the Northern Illinois University College of Business, there was also a chance to earn thousands of dollars in scholarship money. For their final exam, teams of students in Marketing Professor Mark Rosenbaum’s Principles of...
Founders Memorial Library
NIU Libraries will introduce a new service this semester called “Primo.” Primo incorporates the most advanced developments in search engine technology with the aim of furnishing an easier and more intuitive process for locating academic literature. In effect, the database combines all NIU books, full-text articles and digital resources into a single search index and...
Following law school graduation, most students still have one more major hurdle to conquer: passing the bar exam. To help students from the NIU College of Law clear that hurdle, Dr. Kenneth C. Chessick (’84) and his wife Ellen Chessick have created the Kenneth and Ellen Chessick Bridge to the Bar Scholarship Fund. “There are students...
Yolanda (right) enjoys a MELD banquet with her husband, Usvaldo, and her oldest daughter, Alejandra.
As a 16-year-old with five siblings and an abusive mother, Yolanda struggled to gain attention from her single parent. She finally succeeded – and in a big way, or so she thought – when administrators at Rockford East High School expelled her for fighting. But though it might have earned her some street cred with...
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