Category: Students
As spring 2023 course registration approaches, faculty and staff throughout the university are encouraged to help students prepare for the upcoming semester. “Class registration is an early indicator of whether we are meeting the goals of our Strategic Enrollment Management Plan.” said Nichole Knutson, Associate Vice Provost for Student Success. “All NIU faculty and staff...
George Middlemist has mentored many people seeking jobs over the years, and he has always offered the same advice: taking a new job shouldn’t be about wanting to leave someplace, but about wanting to be somewhere. After 26 years of serving in just about every finance role at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Middlemist has...
A group of future audiologists got an important hearing lesson in October when they traveled to Aurora Sportsmen’s Club rifle/pistol range in Waterman, Illinois. “Noise exposure from firearm use is a major contributor to hearing loss in gun owners,” said Charles Pudrith, assistant professor of audiology in the School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders....
The NIU New Music Festival celebrates its tenth year with three consecutive evenings of music November 2, 3, and 4, 2022. The evening programs begin at 7 p.m. and tickets are available through the online School of Music Box Office. Here’s a look back at the history of the NIU New Music Ensemble and New...
Northern Illinois University and TheDream.US, the nation’s largest college and career success program for immigrant students, today announced a new partnership to provide scholarships for Illinois immigrant youth to achieve their higher education dreams. The new partnership announcement arrives as the TheDream.US opens its scholarship round for the 2023-2024 academic year. The application round will...
On the first floor of the Founders Memorial Library hangs what may be the world’s largest disco ball. It also may be the most detailed representation ever of Huskie hometowns around the world. Or a high- resolution view of the surface of Mars, Jupiter or any of the other planets. In fact, it can be...
As the university observed Hispanic Heritage Month the NIU College of Business increased its efforts to ensure that Latino students feel welcomed and at home. Officially launched this fall, the Hispanic Business Student Association (HBSA) was created to support Latino students and ensure that they graduate better prepared to face a future in the business...
NIU alumna Paulette Hasier, chief of the Maps and Geography Division at the Library of Congress, will give a talk on the importance of geographical information at Founders Memorial Library at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the first-floor Founders Gallery. The talk will kick off the Women in STEM Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the...
Tim Michaelis, assistant professor of entrepreneurship in NIU’s College of Business, founded and recently co-hosted the new Health in Entrepreneurship Conference in Chicago. Aimed at accelerating research into issues surrounding health and entrepreneurship, the event was held over Oct 7-8 at MATTER Chicago, an incubator for health-care startups, and at DePaul University. NIU, DePaul and...
‘A model of confidence’ Vilaya “Ling” Sirivong set her sights on NIU at the age of 16. She knew then she wanted to be the first in her family not only to go to college, but to study abroad. Thousands of miles away in her homeland of Laos, she applied for the university’s Southeast Asia...
This past spring, Dr. Levi Harrison, an orthopedic surgeon known as “the esports doctor,” announced that he would award a one-thousand-dollar scholarship to one NIU student for the 2022-23 school year. However, the best-laid plans can go awry, and after the scholarship committee had narrowed down the field, Dr. Harrison found himself faced with two...
Kayce Fuentes makes it four. A second-year M.S.Ed. student in the NIU Department of Counseling and Higher Education, Fuentes is the 2022 recipient of the NASPA Region IV-E Graduate Student Rising Star (Illinois) Award and the fourth consecutive Huskie chosen for the annual honor. Her selection acknowledges her demonstrated excellence in the classroom as well...
