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Ebony Ellis
Ebony Ellis scored 15 points and grabbed 15 rebounds, and Marke Freeman scored 28 points as the Northern Illinois women’s basketball team defeated Miami (Ohio), 71-64, Sunday at the Convocation Center. The Huskies picked up their second straight win to improve to 8-11 and 2-4 in Mid-American Conference play. Miami (Ohio) lost for the second...
Xavier Silas
Matt Stainbrook tipped in an offensive rebound with less than a second to play as the Northern Illinois men’s basketball team fell, 82-80, to Western Michigan on Saturday afternoon at University Arena. The Huskies made the initial defensive stop on the play and nearly forced overtime but were unable to keep the 6-foot-9 Stainbrook from...
NIU Cares Day volunteers
Gather your teams and find your work gloves: Online registration for the annual NIU Cares Day begins Tuesday, Feb. 1. This year, the army of volunteers from the NIU community will fan out Saturday, April 16, to paint, rake, clean sweep and repair agencies’ buildings and yards. If the turnout is anything like last year’s,...
Holly Clure
NIU’s gymnastics team completes a two-week homestand at 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23, when it plays host to Mid-American Conference foe Bowling Green in the NIU Convocation Center’s Victor E. Court. The meet can be watched live online at www.NIUHuskies.com through the Huskie All Access program. Cost is $6.95 for a one-month subscription or $49.95 for an annual pass. ...
Huskies track and field
Following a record-breaking start to the 2011 season the Northern Illinois track and field team will look keep to its momentum going as the Huskies travel Saturday, Jan. 22, to Normal, Ill. to compete in the Redbird Invitational, hosted by Illinois State in Horton Field House. Northern Illinois will begin competition at 11 a.m. with...
Beginning this month, every new book published by Northern Illinois University (NIU) Press will be sold as an e-book as well as a traditional printed book. NIU Press e-books are available through Amazon’s Kindle Store and Barnes & Noble’s NOOKbook Store. The Press hopes to partner with Google Editions in the coming months. “Although we...
NIU’s Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences has announced the schedule of its Spring 2011 Colloquia. The series begins at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, with James Adamson, of V3 Companies Ltd., who will present “Water Supply Development and Relief in Haiti.” Adamson will speak in Davis Hall 308. Colloquia are co-sponsored by the Graduate...
ELS Language Centers (ELS), which opened its DeKalb location last September, will celebrate that milestone with a grand opening event at noon Friday, Feb. 11, in the Sky Room of the Holmes Student Center. Mark Harris, president and CEO of ELS Educational Services, and Alexandra (Sasha) Zilovic, vice president of North American Operations & Business...
The Northern Illinois men’s basketball team battled back from an eight-point deficit in the final minutes Thursday night but came up just short, falling 66-64 at Central Michigan. Senior guard Xavier Silas led the Huskies with 24 points, junior forward Tim Toler added 14 points and freshman forward Nate Rucker chipped in 12 points and a...
Join alumni and friends in the spectacular Land of the Rising Sun during NIU’s 2011 spring break. NIU’s Alumni Association invites travelers on a trip scheduled from Thursday, March 10, through Saturday, March 19. This adventure includes touring in Tokyo, Kyoto, Uji, Nara, Hiroshima and Miyajima Island. Discover the treasures of Japan, from the cutting-edge...
BELIEF (Building Ethical Leaders using an Integrated Ethical Framework), NIU’s College of Business ethics program, has provided an ethics framework to thousands of students over the past four years. The impact the program has had on students was evident in Business Week’s 2010 survey of senior level students across the country.  Students in business schools were...
The tip-off time of Sunday’s women’s basketball game between Northern Illinois and Miami (Ohio) has been moved up to noon, NIU Associate Vice President/Director of Athletics Jeff Compher announced Thursday. The game time change will allow fans to catch both the Huskies’ Mid-American Conference showdown with the RedHawks and the National Football League’s NFC Championship...