Category: Students
Northern Illinois University infielder Carly Norton was recognized for her hard work in the classroom as she was named to the 2011 Capital One Academic All-District® Softball Second Team for District 5 as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. “She’s really stepped up for us as a junior,” said NIU head coach...
NIU President John G. Peters invites the campus community to attend Academic Convocation, a formal ceremony to officially welcome and celebrate incoming students. Academic Convocation begins at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at the NIU Convocation Center. Students will learn about the many academic opportunities and campus traditions of NIU. Two faculty and student research...
Elizabeth “Liz” Tovar, who has spent her entire professional career helping student-athletes reach their academic goals, has been named assistant athletics director for Student-Athlete Academic Support Services at Northern Illinois University. Jeff Compher, NIU associate vice president and director of Athletics, and Vice Provost Earl “Gip” Seaver announced the hiring Friday, May 6. Tovar, who began her NIU...
NIU’s Communicative Disorders Student Association is hosting a book drive through Friday, May 13, to raise money for the Stuttering Foundation and to support organizations that work with Better World Books. Books can be dropped off in boxes located in Barsema Hall, Douglas Hall, Founders Memorial Library, the Psychology-Computer Science Building, the Wirtz Hall atrium and near the book buy-back table...
Football senior Chad Spann and volleyball freshman Lauren Wicinski were named Northern Illlinois University’s 2010 Male and Female Athletes of the Year, headlining a list of 24 award winners honored Monday night during NIU’s second annual Victors Awards. The Victors saw NIU student-athletes, coaches, athletic department and university staff come together to honor the Huskies’...
A classroom of NIU students who share a passion for the environment had an opportunity Wednesday to open a dialogue about climate, clean energy and green jobs with one of Washington, D.C.’s movers and shakers: U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin. The students interacted via videoconference with the Democratic senator as he discussed a wide range of environmental...
It’s safe to say NIU students Adam Turchioe of Wheaton and Phillip Jagielo of Westmont are on cloud nine. The pair of meteorology students landed internships with arguably the most respected weatherman in the business: Tom Skilling of WGN-TV, WGN Radio 720 and Chicago Tribune fame. Turchioe, a junior, and Jagielo, a senior, have worked behind...
In celebration of the sesquicentennial of Jose P. Rizal’s birth, Consul General Leo M. Herrera-Lim of the Consulate General of the Philippines Chicago will donate copies of the original manuscripts of two of Rizal’s famous novels to NIU. The novels “Noli Me Tangere” (Touch Me Not) and “El Filibusterismo” (The Reign of Greed), published by the National Historical...
Campbell Soup Company will join forces Saturday, May 14, with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) to provide assistance to DeKalb and Sycamore families struggling to put food on their tables every day. The Stamp Out Hunger food drive collected a record 77.1 million pounds of food donations last year, pushing the 18-year total to...
Northern Illinois freshman Axel Lagerlof capped off his first season with the Huskies by being named Mid-American Conference Newcomer of the Year, announced today by the conference office. This is the second-straight year that a Huskie has won the award, with Maksym Bartiuk winning the honor last year. “It’s a great honor for Axel,” said...
Northern Illinois University will host the 2011 Mid-American Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships from Thursday, May 12, through Saturday, May 14, at the NIU Soccer and Track & Field Complex. Doors open to the public at 9 a.m. Thursday, May 12; the meet begins at 10 a.m. Doors open to the public at 10...
Two College of Engineering and Engineering Technology students received monetary awards this month from the Chicago chapter of the American Society of Metals International (ASM). Both students submitted posters representing their work in material sciences and were awarded prize money for their research and service. Mike Matusky, a graduate student pursuing an M.S. in mechanical...
