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Dave Doeren
New Northern Illinois head football coach Dave Doeren and his 2011 Huskie football team hit the Huskie Stadium turf for the first of 15 spring football practices Tuesday morning in DeKalb.  During a two-plus hour workout in shorts and helmets that saw the weather range from wet to cold and windy, Doeren saw the attitude...
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Congress has approved, and President Obama has signed, the sixth short-term Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep the federal government running. This latest CR is set to expire Friday, April 8. It contains an additional $6 billion in spending cuts, mainly from funding rescissions, reductions and program terminations. No accounts impacting higher education were cut in this CR....
Holly Reichard
NIU senior gymnast Holly Reichard (Palatine, Ill./Palatine Fremd HS) has been selected to compete in the 2011 National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Championships  as an individual for the third time in her four-year career with the Huskies. Reichard will compete at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 2, at the NCAA South Central Regional at the University of...
Northern Illinois University will hold a “teach-in” on the crisis in Japan, with a panel of experts speaking on topics ranging from tracking earthquakes and tsunamis to the hazards of radioactive emissions. The event, titled “Responding to the Human Tragedy in Japan: Challenges and Complexities,” is free and open to the public. It will be...
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The NIU Women’s Resource Center will sponsor the DeKalb area’s second annual Rock Against Rape benefit concert at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 31, at The House Café, 263 E. Lincoln Highway. Admission is $5 for students and community members. All proceeds will go to the national organization PAVE, for Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment. Through art,...
Every two years, with the January swearing-in of a newly elected Illinois House of Representatives, the legislature starts fresh. All bills and legislative proposals that were not enacted by that point are rendered null and void when the new General Assembly is convened.  The last assembly, the 96th in the state’s history, introduced more than 13,000...
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Congress continues to struggle with the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. Last week, the Senate defeated both H.R. 1, the Continuing Resolution passed by the House of Representatives that would cut spending by $61 billion, and the Senate Democratic counter-proposal that would cut federal spending by about $6.5 billion. With the defeat of both bills and...
Jeanette Rossetti
Jeanette Rossetti has become the fifth nursing professor from NIU to receive a prestigious Nurse Educator Fellowship Award from the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Rossetti, who teaches courses in mental health nursing in the School of Nursing and Health Studies, is among the fourth class of a program created to ensure the retention of...
Krakow, Poland
Northern Illinois University graduate student Aaron Vermedal is among several College of Visual and Performing Arts students who are participating in a study abroad program in Poland
Sundance Wicks
Northern Illinois University assistant coach Sundance Wicks will serve as Interim Head Coach of the NIU men’s basketball program, NIU Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics Jeff Compher announced Thursday.  Wicks will lead the program during its current head coaching transition. “It is important for our staff and student-athletes to have a point of...
Congress returned from its recess last week. The top agenda item remained the FY 2011 budget. To avert a government shutdown when the current Continuing Resolution (CR) expired Friday, March 4, both the House and Senate agreed to a two-week extension of the CR until Friday, March 18. Included in this CR was $4 billion in cuts;...
The Northern Illinois University College of Business has once again secured a position on Bloomberg-Businessweek’s list of best undergraduate business schools. The college moved up 10 spots from last year to No. 84. Only 139 of 579 accredited business schools in the country were invited to participate in the ranking process. This is the fifth year of...
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