For School of Music professor David Maki, it’s all about NIU students. “My favorite memories at NIU continue to be centered on watching students succeed on multiple levels,” shares Maki. “Everything from watching a struggling student finally master a concept, to hearing
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Making life less challenging… that’s what the seniors of the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) have been working on all year. From devices that alert drivers to approaching emergency vehicles to ensuring allergy patients always have their life-saving epinephrine injection
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Identifying equity as a top priority, NIU aims to close graduation gaps for students of color, first-generation college-goers and low-income students. University leaders, including NIU President Lisa Freeman, recently joined representatives from 25 community colleges and universities throughout northern Illinois as part
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Join your colleagues in congratulating the newly named Board of Trustees Professor; Presidential Teaching Professor; Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professors; Presidential Engagement Professor; and the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and Instruction Award recipients at an event held in their honor on
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Students in Leland, Illinois have had the chance to design electric cars, play with circuits, use soldering irons and more, thanks to a generous donation from Jan Half, a former Leland teacher and NIU alumna. Half’s gift has enabled a new partnership
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Brendan McCormick knows what it means to get his dissertation in shape. As a doctoral candidate graduating in May, McCormick is one of many Huskies who took part in last year’s Dissertation Boot Camp, an innovative program offered each summer by the
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The final lecture of this year’s Elizabeth Allen Visiting Alumni Speakers in Art History Lecture Series features Freida High Wsikhongo Tesfagiorgis’ talk: A Sankofa Moment in 2019: The Impact of The Black Arts Movement On Diversity in Art History and Museums in the
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On April 5th-6th, NIU Accountancy welcomed faculty representatives from nine Mid-American Conference (MAC) schools who arrived on campus to attend NIU’s 2019 MAC Accounting Research Symposium. The event took place on the NIU Naperville campus and included a welcome reception that was hosted by
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Northern Illinois University Associate Vice-President and Director of Athletics Sean T. Frazier was honored by NIU’s Presidential Commission on the Status of Minorities (PCSM) Thursday, April 18, as one of the recipients of the 2019 Deacon Davis Diversity Award at the PCSM’s
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A special memory of her 28 years at NIU? For Monique Bernoudy, that’s not an easy question. “Wow, I have a scroll of memories,” she says. “Recently, it was seeing a student that I previously advised and who excelled as an Academic
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The NIU College of Education’s first Educator in Residence spent April 11 doing just that: educating. Denise Bunning, who earned an M.S.Ed. in Special Education in 1989 from NIU, returned to her alma mater with a clear message for future teachers: Children will come
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More than 500 NIU students, faculty, staff and alumni sprang into action April 13 during NIU Cares Day, the annual event that allows Huskies to lend a helping hand to community members who need one. “NIU Cares Day volunteers spent the day
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