The Northern Illinois men’s golf team is prepared to begin its run at a Mid-American Conference championship at TPC River’s Bend. The first 36 holes of the season-ending tournament begin Friday morning in Maineville, Ohio. MAC programs compete against each other at various events throughout the season, and across the country, but this is the...
The NIU Community School of the Arts is taking registrations for summer. A visit to www.csa.niu.edu provides information about the day camps, classes, ensembles and private lessons that are available for children and adults. The semester begins the week of June 13 and runs throughout June and July. Most classes and all lessons are taught on the main...
Every spring, the NIU Alumni Association recognizes the achievements of exemplary alumni through a series of prestigious awards. Winners of the Outstanding Alumni Awards for each of NIU’s academic colleges join recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award, the F. R. Geigle Service Award and the Outstanding Young Alumni Award. Recipients are selected based on professional and personal...
The Friends of NIU Libraries is sponsoring its annual Book Appraisal Fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, May 1, in the Rare Books and Special Collections Department of Northern Illinois University’s Founders Memorial Library. Appraisals will be provided by Thomas Joyce of Thomas J. Joyce & Co. and the Chicago Rare Book Center,...
The NIU Community School of the Arts has announced the recital schedule for the spring. Soloists and ensemble performances are featured in May on the stage of the Recital Hall and Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. Most performances end with receptions. All are free and open to the public. CSJazz Band performs twice this spring. This...
Northern Illinois junior shortstop Alex Jones was named Mid-American Conference West Division Player of the Week, the league announced Monday. Jones was nearly unstoppable in NIU’s 2-1 series win over Toledo as he went 8-for-11 (.727) with three doubles, two RBI and two runs, and was perfect in the field in 13 chances. Compiling a...
The Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute will be held from Monday, May 16, through Friday, May 20, in the Heritage Room of the Holmes Student Center. Twenty-three members of NIU’s instructional faculty will participate. Each participant will revise the syllabus for an existing or new course, incorporating material related to race, class, and/or gender. The keynote speaker,...
The NIU Jazz Lab Band, directed by Rodrigo Villanueva, will perform two shows Tuesday, May 3, at the Jazz Showcase, 806 S. Plymouth Court in Chicago. Admission is $5 for students, NIU faculty and staff and musicians, and $10 for the general public. NIU School of Music faculty Art Davis (trumpet), Kelly Sill (bass), Ron...
Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 8, and the Women’s Studies Program is again this year making Mother’s Day gift-giving easy. Send a contribution for the Mothers Memorial Scholarship Fund and program staff will send each honoree a beautiful and unique card – featuring the 2011 Women’s History Month design – letting her know that a contribution was made in her honor. Mothers,...
Join NIU alumni and friends Thursday, April 28, to learn about renewable fuels and the viability of alternative energy sources. NIU alum Promod Vohra, dean of the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology, and Gregg Hassler, vice president-finance for Waste Management, Inc., will share their views on ethanol, biodiesel, and other fuels for the future....
Northern Illinois junior closer Kyle Glancy was named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) midseason Stopper of the Year watch list, the organization has announced. Joining the likes of former Huskie standout stopper Matt German (2004-07), Glancy becomes the first NIU closer to be mentioned on an NCBWA Stopper of the Year list...
Are you ready to kick off the garage sale season in an enormous way? Whether it’s antiques, collectibles, sports cards, arts, crafts, garage sale items or anything else you want to buy or sell, the place to be is NIU Convocation Center’s third annual “Colossal Clean Sweep.” The sale is open from 9 a.m. to...
