Congress came back in session last week after several weeks of spring recess. The two main agenda items they have been dealing with are the issue of raising the debt ceiling and the FY2012 budget. I previously reported that the U.S. government will reach the limits of its authority to borrow any additional funds this month. However,...
AT&T executive Ralph de la Vega credits Northern Illinois University with helping prepare him for a career that has included guiding two of the largest mergers in telecommunications history. De la Vega, the CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, was the guest of honor Friday, May 6, at the college’s annual Alumni Luncheon at Harry Caray’s...
Wendel McRaven, a 20-year veteran of collegiate cross country and track and field coaching, has been named Northern Illinois University’s new head women’s cross country coach. McRaven has spent the last six years as the men’s cross country and distance coach at the University of Illinois. “We are very excited to have coach McRaven join...
The 2010 season was a record-setting one on the field for the Northern Illinois football program. NIU learned today that its performance in the classroom also put the Huskies into an elite category as Northern Illinois was one of only 14 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams honored with a Public Recognition Award by the NCAA. Each...
Members of NIU’s Marketing and Branding Committee need your help to choose a new logo for the university. The 2011-12 academic year will begin this fall with a new tagline – “Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow” – and a new logo that conveys a unified and consistent institutional visual identity. First, though, results from a brief...
For most people, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro would be the highlight of their summer, or maybe even their life. For NIU engineering student Alan Hurt, it is just a start. Just hours after completing his last final exam of the semester, Hurt boarded a plane bound for Africa, carrying only a single rucksack containing a few...
The NIU parking garage will be closed for cleaning and maintenance from Monday, May 23, through Friday, May 27. The visitor pay lot will not be available as free parking for blue and student permit holders. However, 67 blue parking spaces will open in Lot D and 25 blue parking spaces will open in Lot 36. During...
The Bryan Carter Trio will perform a CD release concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 3, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. The trio features Carter on drums, Reginald Thomas on piano and Phillip J. Kuehn on bass. Carter was the first high school student allowed to take music classes...
After much discussion, it appears that lawmakers will this week take up in earnest the issue of changes to the pension system for state employees. Currently, it appears that the language in HB149 is the strategy that lawmakers are looking to as they consider the issue. A quick summary of the three-tiered system under consideration...
With the help of seven runs in the fifth and sixth innings and an eight-run eighth Sunday afternoon, Northern Illinois took down Ball State 18-8 at Ralph McKinzie Field during Senior Day. The three-game series rubber match win clinched the Huskies’ first appearance in the Mid-American Conference Tournament since 2008, and gave them their sixth...
Northern Illinois split its doubleheader against Ball State Saturday afternoon at Ralph McKinzie Field, getting a walk-off 10-9 win before falling 13-7 in Game Two of a three-game Mid-American Conference series. With an overcast sky, intermittent misting and a steady 14 MPH wind out to right-center, the favorable hitting conditions led to a combined 39...
The Northern Illinois track and field team scored 47 points, its highest-ever total in a Mid-American Conference Outdoor Championship meet, as it claimed eighth place on Saturday at the NIU Track & Field and Soccer Complex. “I think all of the ladies gave everything that they had on the track,” said NIU head coach Connie...
