Alissa Droog Alissa Droog is eager to run workshops that teach NIU Huskies how to read peer-reviewed articles and how to practice academic integrity in citations. She’s counting the days until she can welcome College of Education majors to Founders Memorial Library to teach them
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A familiar face has agreed to lead NIU’s Center for Black Studies. After two years in an interim role, Anne Edwards has been named director of the center on a permanent basis. As interim director, Edwards increased the number of Black alumni
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Looking for individuals and families to share their experiences and struggles related to the pandemic NIU’S Center for Latino and Latin American Studies has partnered with the University of Texas at Austin on an oral history project that preserves the experiences and
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Following the death of George Floyd and the unrest in the country, Vivian Meade woke up one morning in late May and thought, “I need to do something.” A recent graduate of NIU, the 26-year-old quickly became an organizer for the Black
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Northern Illinois University’s director of Admissions took part in a panel of national experts this week for a webinar hosted by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Quinton Clay joined enrollment representatives from three other regions for “College Enrollment and Access in the
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LaVerne Gyant LaVerne Gyant shared her view on Black Lives Matter with an international audience. A professor in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education and former director of the NIU Center for Black Studies, she was invited to serve as the keynote speaker for an
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Future B.S.Ed. in Elementary Education majors who want to start their studies at the College of DuPage can transfer seamlessly into the NIU College of Education. Thanks to a newly signed, non-cohort-based 2+2 agreement between COD and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction that launches this fall, participating
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The Northern Illinois University College of Business and DeKalb County Economic Development Corporation (DCEDC) are currently accepting proposals for IGNITE!, a joint program for organizations to connect with and employ NIU Business students on a part-time basis. NIU Business Senior Director Amy Buhrow and NIU
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Catherine Raymond, professor of art history and director of the NIU Center for Burma Studies is presenting a free, open to the public, online lecture through the DeKalb Public Library on “The Future of Cathedral Notre Dame of Paris After the Great Fire.”
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So much has changed in recent months. From shelter-in-place orders to students going to school online, more and more people are working from home and the larger community is practicing social distancing. But for frontline and essential workers like Aldi Store Manager
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The NIU Supermileage team is on a roll again. The team of engineering students at NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) won third place in the international SAE Supermileage competition in June. SAE Supermileage is a competition for teams of engineering undergraduate and
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The Center for Burma Studies at Northern Illinois University has launched an online exhibition, “Looking At Women in Contemporary Burma.” It focuses on the evolving portrayal of Burmese women as depicted today by Myanmar artists reflects a politico-cultural milieu in transition between tradition and modernity. After some
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