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One Japanese class at NIU and John Pindel discovered a passion and a new place to call home. A 2016 alumnus, Pindel of Winfield, Illinois, used some free credits to take Japanese 101 and 102 his senior year with Instructor Misato Sekita. Double-majoring in computer science and philosophy, Pindel was a fan of manga, or...
Destiny McDonald, ’10, M.S.Ed. ’12, and other Huskies helped changed the life of an elderly man in Joplin, Missouri, in one week after he had been struggling to rebuild his home for two years because of a tornado that had devastated the town. During a Huskie Alternative Break, McDonald and 10 students worked with the...
A new tourist attraction in Woodstock, Illinois, is a tribute both to the town and the talents of some Northern Illinois University alumni. A 1971 graduate, Michael Stanard designed a mural, while 1993 graduate Bobby Jo Scribner created a sculpture for the Woodstock on Film and on the Stage mural and sculpture garden near Classic...
Michael Roper (’86), will be the featured boss on an episode of CBS’s hit series Undercover Boss! The episode will air on Friday, April 28, at 8 p.m. EST.  Recipient of a degree in business administration, Michael Roper is president and CEO of Taco Bueno, a high-quality Tex-Mex chain with more than 175 restaurants, founded...
Healing to Action, co-founded by NIU Law alum Karla Altmayer (J.D. ’12), is a public service organization whose mission is to end gender-based violence by cultivating worker leadership to improve community response, to unite labor and anti-violence movements, and to increase access to justice for low-wage workers who have been victimized. Building on her NIU...
NIU students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends are encouraged to don the red and black Wednesday, Nov. 9, and join in the celebration of NIU Day in Chicago. Special ticket deals are still available for the Huskie Chi-Town Showdown, as NIU takes on Mid-American Conference rival Toledo in the first football game ever to be played...
Northern Illinois University alumnus and medicinal chemist Michael L. Vazquez will discuss his latest work with Janus Kinase 1, a tyrosine kinase protein, during a noon presentation as part of the Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Studies seminar series on Friday, Oct. 21, in LaTourette Hall, room 201. Vazquez, a 1980 chemistry graduate and a...
NIU College of Law alumna Karoline Carstens stands out from her peers thanks to a lifelong desire to help others, a commitment to know each of her clients on a personal level and a drive to be involved with every step of her cases. Carstens’ compassion and accomplishments, both as a lawyer and volunteer in her...
Vincent F. Cornelius
NIU Law alumnus Vincent Cornelius (’89), the incoming president of the Illinois State Bar Association, will deliver the commencement address during the Northern Illinois University College of Law Commencement Exercises, beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 28, at the Carl Sandburg Auditorium of the Holmes Student Center. During the ceremony, NIU Law will confer 88...
Barton (“Bart”) Sharp poses with Kristina and Michael (“Mike”) McGrath
Barton (“Bart”) Sharp, associate professor of management in the NIU College of Business, will serve as the first Mike and Kristina McGrath Professor in Entrepreneurship. Alumnus Michael (“Mike”) (B.S. Management 1970) and his wife, Kristina McGrath, created this professorship to increase and enhance entrepreneurship initiatives at the college. Sharp joined the NIU faculty in 2008...
Jim Wong and Carmen Rossi
Jim Wong, founder and CEO of the Chicago-based Brilliant, an award-winning accounting, finance and IT staffing firm, and Carmen Rossi, a Chicago restaurateur and lawyer, have been chosen to serve on the board of directors for the newly formed Illinois Business and Economic Development Corp. (ILBEDC) The NIU alumni are among the nine Illinois business...
Joan Allen, NIU alumna and star of ABC’s “The Family.”(Photo used with permission)
After decades of film work, actress and NIU alumna Joan Allen is relishing the experience of her “kind of, sort of” first television series. Allen, theatre arts ’89, starred for one season in the HBO series “Luck” and for six episodes of the AMC series “The Killing.” But “The Family,” airing at 8 p.m. CST...
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