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Planning continues for NIU’s Health Technology Center (HTC), a state-of-the-art teaching and learning facility that will increase opportunities for transdisciplinary collaboration and position NIU as a leader in health education and research. A team of NIU faculty, staff and administrators met in early 2021 to develop a vision for the Health Technology Center. Representatives from...
The campus community has the opportunity to participate in a series of open forums where they can meet and ask questions of the finalists for the position of Chief of Police and Public Safety at Northern Illinois University. The schedule for the forums is as follows: Candidate 1: 1 pm, Monday, Nov. 29, Altgeld Hall,...
Gaming For All – a new sub-group of the NIU Esports Club – is getting a boost from Gen.G, one of the world’s leading esports organizations. NIU Gaming For All received a grant from the Gen.G Foundation, whose mission is to develop talented young gamers and promote diversity and inclusion within gaming. With this new...
NIU Leaders In Ethics And Academic Discipline (LEAD) students Alison Kramer and Sydney Klunk represented the College of Business at the Eller Ethics Competition. LEAD is a student organization that focuses on ethics in business settings. The Eller Ethics case competition, which hosted more than 20 universities from across the country, took place at the University of Arizona on the weekend of October...
Liz McSpadden, ’10, M.B.A. ’16, says she lives by three principles—grace, grit and gratitude. Now in her mid-thirties and going through her third round of treatments for stage IV breast cancer, it is easy to see why she has needed grit. But her grace and gratitude are the traits that are most impressive, as she...
NIU President Dr. Lisa C. Freeman delivered an encouraging State of the University Address via video to face-to-face and online audiences Tuesday, reflecting on the journey through COVID-19 and the challenges and opportunities that await. Freeman, who also took live questions after the conclusion of her pre-recorded remarks, stressed the importance of NIU’s mission, vision...
In March of 2020, the NIU undergraduate mock trial team was ecstatic when it was announced they had taken second place out of 24 teams at the Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS) tournament at the Kane County Judicial Center in Geneva, Illinois. This earned them a bid to the American Mock Trial Association’s (AMTA) National...
Join the NIU College of Law for the next Race and the Law Conversation on “Cannabis and Restorative Justice” on Tuesday, November 16 at 6:00 p.m. with alumna Toi W. Hutchinson (’14), Senior Advisor to Governor Pritzker on Cannabis Control.  NIU Law Professor Wendy Vaughn will moderate. Tuesday, November 16, 2021 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. CST Register...
We often think of art and science as very different processes. But for NIU art education faculty member Kelly Gross and artist, STEAM teacher and NIU alumnus Jolien Genus, art and science share the same processes of investigation, research and relationship-building. At the next STEM Café, these two artists and educators will present “Artistic Process...
It’s a fact. Huskies are stronger together. When we band together, there is nothing we cannot accomplish, and this year’s “Thousands Strong” day of giving event proved that once again! Northern Illinois University alumni, students, faculty and staff, and friends of the University came together on Nov. 10-11 to celebrate the incredible positive impact NIU...
‘A different level of success’ Adriane Hutchinson knows how powerful it can be to simply help someone. The right support means everything. Hutchinson learned that growing up in a family that didn’t believe anyone should have to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, as the saying goes. Because not everyone has the shoes to begin...
Jerian Dixon-Evans, a Health Sciences doctoral student in NIU College of Health and Human Sciences (CHHS), was recently awarded a $138,000 R36 Dissertation Grant from the National Institute on Aging for her project, “The Impact of Race on Quality of Life of the Aged after Heart Transplant or Destination Therapy Mechanical Support.” Dixon-Evans’ research is...
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