NIU Today

The National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and Cengage Learning have named NIU’s Denise L. Rode among 10 recipients of this year’s “Outstanding First-Year Student Advocates.” Rode, director of Orienation & First-Year Experience at NIU, was chosen from a group of 128 educators whose efforts on their own campuses made the review and...

Thomas Bough is preparing to produce some low notes on a high stage. Bough, director of athletic bands in the NIU School of Music, will perform at 6:30 p.m. (CDT) Saturday, Jan. 29, with the internationally renowned U.S. Army Band. WATCH A LIVE WEBCAST! The Grand Concert takes place in historic Fort Meyer, Va., across...

Remodeling work on Cole Hall will constrict foot traffic on sidewalks around the building in the months ahead. Starting Friday, Jan. 14, construction fencing will surround much of the brick patio on the east side of the building. As a result, some segments of sidewalk around Cole will be reduced to as little as 8 feet wide....

An announcement this week from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching confirmed what most at Northern Illinois University already knew: NIU excels in providing students opportunities for engaged learning. “NIU always has prided itself on working to ensure that the knowledge we share and produce is relevant and enhances the world around us,”...

On the heels of a record-breaking 2010 Northern Illinois football season on the field, a record-tying five Northern Illinois football student-athletes have been named to the Mid-American Conference’s Academic All-MAC football squad as selected by the league’s faculty representatives. Northern Illinois and Western Michigan led all MAC schools with five selections each to the 29-man...

NIU offensive lineman and 2010 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team® member Adam Kiel is in New Orleans this week to take part in the week’s festivities leading up to tonight’s 2011 Allstate® Sugar Bowl. Kiel is the second NIU player all-time, and the second in the last three seasons, to be named to the prestigious team,...

Darrell E. “Doc” Newell, who joined the NIU Industry and Technology Department in the fall of 1967 and retired from the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology in the spring of 1990, died Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, in DeKalb. He was 84. Before his retirement, Newell served as chair of electrical engineering and as interim associate dean...

The start of the new year will bring with it a new time reporting requirement for many university employees. After Jan. 1, all non-hourly employees (in positions categorized as exempt civil service, supportive professional and academic administrators) will be required to use a new online reporting system to log hours worked each day. The tool...

Michael C. Morris, a passionate teacher in NIU’s Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, died Sunday, Dec. 12, after a long battle with colorectal cancer. He was 49. Morris, who joined the NIU faculty in 1996 as an assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, earned his bachelor’s degree from Rockford College before receiving his master’s...

Current Weather Status Last Updated: 12/15/10 NIU campus locations and offices are open for normally scheduled activities. During these winter months, all students, faculty and staff are urged to use caution and personal judgment in their travels to and from campus and to dress appropriately for protection against low temperatures and wind chills. This message will...

Northern Illinois University and DOER Marine today unveiled a new 28-foot long, cigar-shaped robotic submarine to be used in exploration beneath the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Bristling with high-tech instrumentation, the submarine is among the exhibits at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco this week during the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting. The...

Dave Doeren, a 16-year collegiate coaching veteran who has helped take teams to eight bowl games and two national championship contests, was introduced to the Northern Illinois University football team this morning as the 21st head football coach in NIU history. NIU Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics Jeff Compher, who led the week-long head...