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Melissa Adams-Campbell, an assistant professor of English at Northern Illinois University, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Schriber Scholar Award. The award, established by professor emeritus Mary Suzanne Schriber, advances studies in women’s literature and language taking gender into account. The award, which also provides funding for graduate students in addition to a...

Northern Illinois University will hold the 109th Homecoming celebration Saturday, Oct. 24. A weekend of festivities welcoming alumni back to campus will be highlighted by the Huskie football team‘s game versus Mid-American Conference West Division foe Eastern Michigan at Huskie Stadium. Kickoff times for all of NIU’s games in 2015 are TBA. Homecoming Weekend will...

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED Seven years ago, the NIU Convocation Center started the Convo’s Colossal Clean Sweep to bring the community together during tough economic times. It proved a tremendous success and, after a year off, the Clean Sweep is back: The Convocation Center will host its flea market and garage sale from 9...

Northern Illinois University invites the campus community to a farewell reception for Vice President Raymond Alden III from 3 to 5 p.m. on Monday, March 30, at the Holmes Student Center Sky Room. Alden, who has served the past two years as vice president for international affairs, assumes the provost position at Touro University Nevada’s...

NIU students, faculty, staff and local residents can renew driver’s licenses and state IDs, purchase annual vehicle license plate stickers, register as organ and tissue donors or conduct other transactions on campus at a mobile office of the Illinois Secretary of State. In addition, NIU collegiate license plates will be available for purchase. Sales help...

NIU’s Center for Affirmative Action and Diversity Resources along with the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, and the Student Association invite students, faculty, and staff to attend the AADR Spring 2015 Conference, “The NIU Experience: A Journey of Discovery into Affirmative Action, Diversity & Equal Opportunity.” The conference will be held from...

NIU’s Peer Mentor Summit will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, March 27, in the Barsema Alumni Visitor Center. Registration is available online. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Students, faculty and staff are especially encouraged to attend if they are involved in mentoring or plan to be involved in mentoring in...

“Amerimanga! Convention and Expression,” which opens Tuesday, March 24, at the Northern Illinois University Art Museum, showcases the creation of American comics that have been aesthetically influenced by Japanese manga. A public reception for the exhibition is planned from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, at the Museum in Altgeld Hall. Co-curator and author...

The Northern Illinois University Art Museum will present “Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi,” a national traveling exhibition organized by the University Art Museum at California State University Long Beach. Traditions Transfigured opens Tuesday, March 24, at the museum in Altgeld Hall and runs through Friday, May 22. Artist Bidou Yamaguchi will be...

NIU’s spring Retail Leadership Expo, sponsored by Kohl’s, will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 26, at the Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center. Pre-registration is available online. The Retail Leadership Expo is a professional networking event which includes retail career overviews presented by top retail executives followed by a networking “mocktail” reception...

What do you love about NIU? During I Heart NIU Week  – Monday, March 23, through Friday, March 27 – you can join thousands of students, faculty/staff and alumni as they share with the world just what makes NIU so special. “This year, I Heart NIU Week is full of ways for people to engage in...

“At the time, it must have been the best situation comedy ever written,” director David Frank says about the Northern Illinois University School of Theatre and Dance upcoming Studio Series play, “The Comedy of Errors,” by William Shakespeare. Opening Thursday, March 19, “The Comedy of Errors” is a timeless story of two sets of identical...