Saying the university must bridge the financial gap for students when Pell and Monetary Award Program (MAP) grants fall short, President Lisa Freeman announced a generous new financial aid program that aims to make NIU more affordable for Illinois families with household
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Kay Caster What do teachers want? To boost student learning. To improve school effectiveness. To advance their careers. Professional development that is meaningful, relevant and sustainable facilitates that – and the NIU College of Education makes it as easy as possible to obtain. Meet
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For Daewoo Park, innovation can be rooted in the past – if only because his unfailing belief in the importance of breaking new ground spans decades. Park brings that same commitment to reimagining to his new role as the recently-appointed associate dean
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Two alumnae use 35 years of friendship and experience to help Northern students For Huskies, the sense of NIU community is very real and often lasts far beyond a person’s time on campus. Just ask best friends Kelli Mitchell and Julie Ann
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Northern Public Radio is remembering their friend and colleague, Carl Nelson. He died unexpectedly last week at the age of 35. Carl’s fingerprints are all over WNIJ, on-air and behind the scenes. He was a frequent and familiar voice for listeners, especially
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DaQuan Russell-Watts was born with a natural curiosity and love of learning. When his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, he turned to learning to cope and discovered his passion for anthropology. “As a child, I found it fascinating to learn about
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Patricia (Banks) Aldred As NIU prepares to celebrate Homecoming 2019 from Oct. 19 through Oct. 27, one group of former Huskies already has notched its return to campus. Members of the Class of 1959 reunited Sept. 6 at the College of Education, touring Graham,
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Faculty and staff of the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) at Northern Illinois University are mourning the loss of the first dean of CEET, Romualdas Kasuba, Ph.D., P.E., Dr. (Honorary), dean emeritus, who passed away on Thursday, Oct. 10. Dean
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Milivoje M. Kostic, professor emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and editor-in-chief of the Thermodynamics Section of Entropy journal, has been recently named as a topical collection editor of Foundations and Ubiquity of Classical Thermodynamics, after serving as a guest editor for three
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For 50 years, Northern Illinois University’s (NIU’s) Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) has provided applied research, technical assistance, and public sector capacity-building services to our region, state and beyond. Registration is still open for a one-day conference Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, at
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Lynda Stone It happened in a heavily traveled minority neighborhood south of the center of San Francisco. Mary Lou Vanilla, a beloved art teacher at a nearby school, lived at a dangerous and unguarded intersection along Army Street. The number of deaths
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The NIU Autism Caregiver Group will be kicking off the school year with a cookout designed to help families meet and connect with other families of children with autism. The picnic is 3 to 5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 20, at the Welsh
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