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NIU alum Jeff Yordon, CEO of Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (SGNT) and benefactor of NIU’s Jeffrey and Kimberly Yordon Center, rang the closing bell Monday, June 6, at NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square. Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which Yordon founded in 2006, is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing, sourcing and marketing pharmaceutical products, with...

AT&T executive Ralph de la Vega credits Northern Illinois University with helping prepare him for a career that has included guiding two of the largest mergers in telecommunications history. De la Vega, the CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, was the guest of honor Friday, May 6, at the college’s annual Alumni Luncheon at Harry Caray’s...

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 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...

Professional dancers have numerous and diverse styles of dance at their disposal, but often do not get to showcase more than one at a time. The NIU School of Theatre and Dance will present such a variety of dance in the final mainstage show of the season, Spring Dance Concert 2011, from Thursday, April 28, through Sunday,...

The NIU Rockford Club, in partnership with NIU Huskie Coaches Caravan, will host its annual golf outing Thursday, May 19, at the Rockford Country Club. A shotgun start is scheduled for 1 p.m. Dinner begins at 6:15 p.m. Coaches from all NIU sports, along with new Huskies head football coach Dave Doeren, will address the group at 7 p.m. Golfers will...

When NIU’s James Brunson, assistant vice president for Diversity & Equity in Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, received a letter from Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, he thought to himself, “How does he even know about me?” But it should come as no surprise as Brunson, after more than 25 years of tireless research,...

NIU alumnus Ralph de La Vega (M.B.A. 1989) recently negotiated one of the largest telecom mergers in industry history. As the CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, de la vega engineered a merger of his company and T-Mobile — with a $39 billion price tag. The deal, which will create one of the largest wireless telecommunications companies...

Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, will be honored Friday, May 6, as the NIU College of Business Distinguished Alumnus at the College of Business Annual Alumni Luncheon. The luncheon will take place at Harry Caray’s Italian Steak House, 70 Yorktown Center in Lombard, Ill. Corporate tables and individual reservations are...

Join the NIU Alumni Association for an exploration of Turkey with two trips this summer. Located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, this dynamic and historic country combines the history and culture of an ancient land with the development and progress of the modern world. The trips will take place from May 20 to May 29 and from June...

NIU Trustee Cherilyn G. Murer (’78), president and CEO of Murer Consultants, Inc., will present the 18th Annual Francis X. Riley Lecture on Professionalism at 3 p.m. Friday, April 1. Murer will present her lecture in the Francis X. Riley Courtroom at the NIU College of Law, Swen Parson Hall.  Her lecture, titled “Recalibrating the Compass...

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...