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As 2012 draws to a close, NIU Today is offering a look back at 25 of the top stories from the year. No. 15 For two years running, students in the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology have been the top American team at the Society of Automotive Engineers’ (SAE) Supermileage competition in Marshall, Mich....

As 2012 draws to a close, NIU Today is offering a look back at 25 of the top stories from the year. No. 16 Printmakers in the NIU School of Art celebrated a U.S. News & World Report ranking in 2012, one that places their program in the nation’s top 20. NIU, tied with Syracuse University at...

As 2012 draws to a close, NIU Today is offering a look back at 25 of the top stories from the year. No. 17 For someone who isn’t fond of cold weather, sure seems excited about the prospect of working in one of the coldest, driest and most remote environments on the planet. Senior geology major...

As 2012 draws to a close, NIU Today is offering a look back at 25 of the top stories from the year. No. 18 NIU reached a new high-water mark in graduating its student-athletes in 2012, according to the Graduation Success Rate report from the National Collegiate Athletic Association. At 83 percent, Northern Illinois’ latest overall Graduation Success Rate (GSR)...

As 2012 draws to a close, NIU Today is offering a look back at 25 of the top stories from the year. No. 19 Part of the Vision 2020 Initiative is a new emphasis on growing and improving the University Honors Program. Those efforts are already starting to pay off: In May of 2012 a record...

As 2012 draws to a close, NIU Today is offering a look back at 25 of the top stories from the year. No. 20 When NIU was founded in 1895 it was the “Castle on the Hill” drawing students from across the region to DeKalb to learn how to become teachers. Today, the NIU College of...

As 2012 draws to a close, NIU Today is offering a look back at 25 of the top stories from the year. No. 21 In February, the NIU College of Business played host to the second annual World Collegiate Sales Open. The contest was coordinated by the faculty of NIU’s Professional Sales Program, which has been...

As 2012 draws to a close, NIU Today is offering a look back at 25 of the top stories from the year. No. 22 NIU professor Tao Xu, in February received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant of $400,000 to support his research and teaching efforts. Xu, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has...

As 2012 draws to a close, NIU Today is offering a look back at 25 of the top stories from the year. No. 23 Computing power at NIU took a quantum leap forward with the unveiling of a new computer cluster that can handle 30 trillion calculations per second. It will create opportunities for students...

As 2012 draws to a close, NIU Today is offering a look back at 25 of the top stories from the year. No. 24 Northern Illinois University earned its share of national rankings, including the NIU College of Law, which was ranked among the top 20 schools in the nation for students interested in pursuing...

As 2012 draws to a close, NIU Today is offering a look back at 25 of the top stories from the year. No. 25 It was a year filled with breakthrough research at NIU. Highlights included work by NIU Department of Biological Sciences professor and noted vitamin K expert Rangaswamy “Nathan” Meganathan, as well as...