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The Employee Assistance Program, in conjunction with the DeKalb County Health Department, are offering the flu shot clinic to NIU employees and retirees from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, and Tuesday, Oct. 20, in the Regency Room and Duke Ellington Ballroom (respectively) of the Holmes Student Center. Remember to dress with clothes...
NIU’s Presidential Commission on the Status of Women will host a fall conference on “Creating a Safer Campus: Supporting Survivors and Removing Barriers – Part 1.” Scheduled from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, the conference is open to all faculty and staff looking to obtain resources and gain insight on how to support...
Rich Homie Quan
Rappers Rich Homie Quan and Hoodie Allen are coming Friday, Oct. 23, to the NIU Convocation Center for the “Huskies Light the Night” Homecoming concert. Presented by the Campus Activities Board, the Student Association and the Convocation Center, the show begins at 8 p.m. with opening act DJ Jamal Smallz. Doors open at 7 p.m....
Are you bilingual?
Want to free up your schedule to take more electives? Speed your time to graduation? Receive career-enhancing formal certification or earn a language minor with just a few more classes If you’re bilingual, you might be eligible to earn free academic credit through NIU’s Celebrate Bilingualism Program. Undergraduate students who can pass a standard test...
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Family members of Heinz Osterle, an NIU professor emeritus of German foreign languages and literatures who died May 4, invites the university community to a celebration of his “life well-lived.” The event takes place from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11, at the Egyptian Theater, 135 N. Second St. in downtown DeKalb. Born in...
President Doug Baker emailed NIU faculty and staff updating the health care benefits situation. To Our Staff and Faculty: In my last memo regarding the health care benefits situation in the State of Illinois, I mentioned that we were looking for alternatives for our faculty, staff and their families in the event that reimbursement of...
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On Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, NIU police received information about an inflammatory posting on social media that was suspected to be against NIU students. The social media post contained a screen shot of threatening language that was circulated through Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. NIU Police conducted an investigation that revealed the social media posting was...
NIU’s 23rd annual NIU Study Abroad Fair is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. The Study Abroad Fair provides information on how to study abroad and highlights many programs offered through the Study Abroad Office. Students can talk with study abroad...
More than 200 members of the NIU university community have taken part in Program Prioritization training in recent weeks. Members of the Academic and Administrative task forces spent two days with trainer Larry Goldstein in early September, solidifying processes and establishing their own ground rules for the work ahead. Among those determinations were establishment of a...
Clyde Kimball
For five decades, physicist Clyde Kimball – a man of big ideas, immutable passion and abundant kindness – was a fixture on the Northern Illinois University campus. An NIU distinguished research professor, he is credited with cementing the university’s collaborative ties with Argonne National Laboratory, attracting tens of millions of dollars in funding for research...
Political scientist Dwight King, an expert in Indonesia, collected numerous artifacts from the country over the course of his career, including Indonesian puppets.
In 1978, the Department of Political Science hired Dwight King, an Indonesian specialist from Connecticut College. Clark Neher had been teaching political science and Thai studies at NIU for nearly a decade, and the two Southeast Asian scholars soon became fast friends as colleagues, neighbors and as companions on early morning runs four times a...
Heide Fehrenbach
On social media and in our newsfeeds and mailboxes, fundraising campaigns featuring needy or suffering children confront us on a daily basis. They seek to grab our attention, stimulate empathy, prick our moral conscience and open our wallets for a good cause. Modern humanitarianism and photographic technologies emerged in the 19th century and came of...
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