In a year unlike any other, new students will find continued support and resources through a revamped First-Year Success Series designed to reach them both on and off campus. Kicking off with a Sept. 2 Virtual Resource Fair, the series will feature
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The NIU College of Business has launched an online speaker series, Wednesday Night Wisdom, to keep students, alumni and friends learning and connected in this unprecedented time. When the rapid spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) sent NIU students home in the middle of
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NIU Communications Professor Janice Hamlet can add musical theater to her list of experiences. Hamlet, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Communication and senior faculty mentor in the Office of the Provost, spent part of her summer bringing to life
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As NIU welcomes its newest Huskies to their first semester, the Office of Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity and Education (AAEOE) is seeking the assistance of the campus community to help make sure all new first-year and transfer students complete Student Sexual Misconduct
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Jamaal Hines Jamaal Hines grew up hooked on police procedurals on TV, imagining that he someday would solve crimes like the detectives on “CSI” and “NCIS” on behalf of innocent victims. Enrolling at Old Dominion University in his native Virginia, he earned a
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Shared governance at NIU enters the fall with a new structure that leaders expect to be more responsive, more nimble and better able to ensure that all voices get heard in campus decision-making. The changes were approved by both the Faculty Senate
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Leaders from Northern Illinois University and its College of Business and Chung-Ang University (CAU) in South Korea are pleased to announce a newly formed collaboration designed to provide a variety of academic program offerings in the near future at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Much like NIU,
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Northern Illinois University STEM Read and the NIU Libraries are partnering to offer a series of fun, fast-paced webinars to explore bleeding-edge science and mind-bending views of the future. The next webinar, on Aug. 19, brings together neuroscientist Bobby Kasthuri, who is
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A new report assessing U.S. comprehensive research universities ranks NIU third nationally for “innovation impact productivity”—or the bang for the buck per research dollar spent. The ranking can be found in the report, “The Innovation Impact of U.S. Universities,” released earlier this
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If you’re coming to campus at NIU this fall, be sure you’re #CampusClear. As part of NIU’s Protecting the Pack plan for Fall 2020, students and employees on campus are asked to self-monitor by submitting daily wellness checks for COVID-19 through a
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When Lisa Katzenberger transferred to NIU in 1993, she already knew she was going to be a writer. Her major was easy—journalism, with a minor in English—because she wanted to learn writing in all its forms. It was all she had ever
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Graduate students Brian Gumino and Jonathan Barnes have been working with Associate Professor Nicholas Pohlman from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Paul Wever of Chip Energy to find a more efficient way of cooking with fire using a gasifier cookstove. Their
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