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Roberto Carmona
NIU alum Roberto Carmona will be the keynote speaker Saturday, April 2, at the CHANCE and LRC Latino Leadership & Academic Achievement Reception. Scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center, the reception is organized to honor and instill pride in incoming Latino students who have been admitted to NIU through...
NIU President John G. Peters looks over construction plans with officials from Illinois Valley Community College.
NIU’s collaboration with community colleges is the topic of a lunchtime conversation from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, in the Capitol Room South of the Holmes Student Center. Speakers from NIU colleges, centers and offices will share information about the many NIU initiatives now under way with community colleges across the region. Representatives...
Cora Caulfield
Cora Caulfield set another school record in the discus as the Northern Illinois women’s track and field team competed at the Viking Olympics at Augustana College. In addition to Caulfield’s record, the Huskies won nine other events while facing cold and windy conditions throughout the meet. Caulfield won the discus with a school-record throw of 162-11,...
Photo of the NIU Convocation Center
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...
Michael Disa
NIU alum Mike Disa, director and co-writer of soon-to-be-released animated film “Hoodwinked Too: Hood vs. Evil,” will return to campus next week to speak about his life and work in the Hollywood movie business. Disa, who graduated from NIU School of Art in 1987 with a bachelor’s of fine arts degree in art and computer...
Huskies softball
The NIU softball team returns from its preseason tournaments when the Huskies travel to South Bend, Ind. to take on Notre Dame at 5 p.m. today. “Notre Dame is a great team, a top 30 team,” NIU head coach Lindsay Chouinard said of her team’s performance last weekend. “It’s going to be a challenge, but it’s...
Fernando Torres-Gil
Fernando Torres-Gil, President Obama’s appointed vice chair on the National Council on Disability, will speak on “Aging with a Disability: Nexus of Demographics and Public Policy” from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, April 7, in the Altgeld Hall auditorium. Torres-Gil, who also is director of the Center for Policy Research on Aging in the School of...
Andrew Frame
The Northern Illinois men’s golf team continues its Sunshine State swing this weekend at Florida Atlantic’s third annual Spring Break Championships.  “The course is in outstanding condition,” said NIU head coach Tom Porten during the team’s practice round Thursday. “This is a terrific, very well-run event. We have over 200 volunteers that are involved in the event. We...
NIU President John G. Peters
NIU President John G. Peters today addressed the NIU Board of Trustees regarding the state of budget negotiations in Springfield, and talk of altering pension and insurance programs for current employees and annuitants. His remarks were summarized in an e-mail to the campus community, which is included below. Dear Colleague, NIU recently concluded testimony before...
Mark Montgomery
Mark Montgomery, who has spent the last 10 seasons at his alma mater, Michigan State University, including the last four as associate head coach, was introduced as Northern Illinois University’s 27th head men’s basketball coach Thursday. Jeff Compher, NIU associate vice president and director of athletics, made the announcement. Montgomery, a Michigan native who also...
The Northern Illinois University Chemistry Club invites the public to Chem Blast 2011 at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, in Faraday Hall 143. Every spring semester, the NIU Chem Club hosts an evening of crowd-pleasing chemical demonstrations. Demonstrations in the past have involved small explosions and blowing things up. “And, this year’s Chem Blast won’t be...
Dave Doeren
New Northern Illinois head football coach Dave Doeren and his 2011 Huskie football team hit the Huskie Stadium turf for the first of 15 spring football practices Tuesday morning in DeKalb.  During a two-plus hour workout in shorts and helmets that saw the weather range from wet to cold and windy, Doeren saw the attitude...