NIU students, faculty and staff are invited to attend Campus Meets Community, a special block party on Sept. 5 from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Martin Luther King Commons. More than 60 local businesses and organizations will be on hand
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Help students in need, and dine all year!
NIU Campus Dining Services is providing faculty and staff with a way to support the Huskie Food Pantry, while getting a good deal on meals for themselves. For every faculty and staff member who purchases a 30 or 60 meal plan before
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Mary Schlagel earns safety certification
Mary Schlagel, with NIU’s Department of Environmental Health and Safety, was recently awarded the Associate Safety Professional certification. It is a highly respected honor which recognizes her ability to think quickly and critically in a wide range of safety issues and emergency
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Danielle Harris, ’13, selected as a fellow to the 2019 NELC Academy
Danielle Harris, ’13, has always had a penchant for overachieving, but even she is surprised by the strides she has made in the world of employment law in the last few years. Now in her third year as a law associate at
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STEM Read Summer Institute prepares educators to bring books, curiosity to life
Melanie Koss Melanie Koss donned a headpiece that gave her deer ears, reclined motionless on a couch in the Gabel Hall Learning Center, closed her eyes and played the role of a deceased doe. And that wasn’t even the strangest sight at July’s NIU
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NIU alum takes on new role as general manager of NIU Esports
When Conner Vagle arrived at NIU as a transfer student in 2018, he had already reached out to the then-president of the student-run NIU Esports Club to ask how he could get involved. With several years of experience as an esports player,
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2019 football game promotions announced
The line-up of unique giveaways available to a limited number of Huskie fans at each of the first three games add even more value to every NIU ticket purchase in 2019. Giveaways include Hammock jerseys, Huskie visors and Victor E. Football bobbleheads.
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College of Health and Human Sciences welcomes new associate dean
Michael Kushnick has been named associate dean for academic affairs for the NIU College of Health and Human Sciences (CHHS). Kushnick comes to NIU from Sioux City, Iowa, where he was the chair for the Department of Applied Health and Exercise Sciences
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Speech pathologist pushes animal communication boundaries with case study
When Christina Hunger earned her Master of Arts in speech-language pathology from NIU in 2017, she knew she wanted to help young children with speech challenges, which she now does as a Pediatric Speech Pathologist for Early Intervention in San Diego. It
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Degree completion program leads to dream job
It took nearly a decade, but she made it: Ginny Egizio is a graduate of Northern Illinois University’s Hospitality and Tourism Management program (HTM) She earned her B.S. degree in May 2018 and today, she is working her dream job in events management.
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Alumnus named director of National Tsunami Warning Center
James Gridley, ’87, says he isn’t ashamed to admit he’s a failure, and he hopes you are one, too. His colleagues in seismology and geophysics may have a difficult time agreeing with that statement, based on Gridley’s 35-plus-year esteemed career and
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NIU Alumni Association and Balfour announce partnership
NIU Alumni Association and Balfour to sell and distribute NIUAA branded leather goods. Alumni of Northern Illinois University are instilled with a sense of Huskie Pride that they will carry with them for the rest of their life. They can now carry
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