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Team Light Up Africa is a step closer to its goal of providing cheap, affordable electricity to the developing world. Their portable generator/energy storage device, the Zoom Box, was selected as one of 200 semifinalist in the Dell Social Innovation Challenge. The competition drew more than 1,700 submissions. NIU’s four students are hoping to launch...
NIU’s Information Technology Services (ITS) is modernizing and improving the services they provide to students and faculty. ITS has involved the Experiential Learning Center (ELC) of the College of Business to help construct a go green marketing and strategy plan. Through the use of surveys, student and faculty feedback regarding campus-wide services such as Wi-Fi,...
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The IRS deadline for filing income tax returns is quickly approaching, and the Department of Accountancy at NIU wants to help by providing free tax preparation to students, faculty, staff, and the DeKalb community. In conjunction with the Volunteer Income Tax Association (VITA), IRS-certified volunteer tax preparers from the Accountancy Department in the NIU College...
Pi Sigma Epsilon
The NIU College of Business Gamma Zeta chapter of Pi Sigma Epsilon placed first in the “Top Management Team Competition” at the 2012 Pi Sigma Epsilon National Convention, held in Indianapolis. In addition to this achievement, the Gamma Zeta chapter also received recognition for sustained excellence; three members received scholarships based upon their service to...
Reverse Job Fair
Seasoned sales professionals love to tell war stories about the pressure of trying to close a deal. Very few of them, however, have faced anything like the finals of the World Collegiate Sales Open, held Friday, Feb. 24, and Saturday, Feb. 25, at the NIU College of Business. There, the final four contestants had to...
Troy White
Northern Illinois third baseman Troy White, a native of Chicago, Ill., was named one of 30 candidates for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award. The award is annually given to an NCAA Division I senior with notable achievements in four areas of excellence – community, classroom, character and competition. “Troy is a fit candidate for the...
Don Kluemper
Researchers have tapped into what could become a new, and better, tool for human resource professionals trying to predict the success of job candidates. It’s called Facebook. Don Kluemper, a professor of management at Northern Illinois University’s College of Business, and a team of researchers, found that impressions gleaned from a five- to 10-minute perusal...
NIU engineering student Alan Hurt is traveling in Africa this summer to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and conduct research.
A simple mouse click can help a team of NIU business and engineering students win funding to start a company that they believe can provide safe and affordable electric power to millions of Africans. The team, Light Up Africa, is competing in the Dell Social Innovation Challenge, competing against other college students across the country...
Photo of adult exercising on a elliptical machine.
If your boss is giving you a hard time – lying, making fun of you in public and generally putting you down – he or she might benefit from some exercise, according to a new study by James Burton, who teaches in the Management Department in the NIU College of Business. Burton and his team of researchers found...
NIU volleyball team celebrates
A Northern Illinois volleyball-record five Huskies received Academic All-Mid-American Conference recognition, the league announced Thursday. Seniors Kristin Hoffman (Batavia, Ill./Batavia) and Allison McGlaughlin (Morton, Ill./Morton) and sophomore Lauren Wicinski (Geneva, Ill./Geneva) made the 18-person Academic All-MAC Team. Junior Mary Kurisch (La Crosse, Wis./West Salem) and sophomore Justine Schepler (Sycamore, Ill./Sycamore) received honorable mention status. “With...
Goodwill Industries announced Thursday a partnership with the Northern Illinois University College of Business and the DeKalb County CA$H (Creating Assets, Savings and Hope) Coalition which will allow low-income residents to have their taxes prepared free of charge by NIU accountancy students. The free tax service will be available from noon to 8 p.m. Thursdays...
Armed with a business plan that could provide inexpensive electrical power to families across the developing world, Team Light Up Africa took top honors in the first ever Social Venture Business Plan Competition at Northern Illinois University. Their ambitious plan to build and sell small generator/battery storage units – which can be powered by the...
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