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The Family, Consumer and Nutrition Sciences’ Child Development Lab has been awarded the Family and Community Engagement Award of Excellence through ExceleRate Illinois. This award of excellence is one of five awards ExceleRate Illinois invites early childhood programs to apply for. To be eligible for an award of excellence, the early childhood program must be licensed in...
NIU Law faculty Robert Jones (far left) and Associate Dean David B. Gaebler (second from left) helped Donna Sandacz hood her duaghter, Shaina Kalanges.
Donna Sandacz’s first year of law school at Northern Illinois University almost proved disastrous. Her daughter, Shaina Kalanges, suffered serious injuries in a bad automobile accident while an undergraduate student at University of Illinois. “I ended up having to miss two weeks of law school – which could have been catastrophic –because I was with...
NIU Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
Join the NIU Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic and the NIU Physical Therapy Clinic for their Allied Health and Communicative Disorders Open House Saturday, April 18 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will be held at the NIU Family Health, Wellness, and Literacy Center located at 3100 Sycamore Road in DeKalb, and will feature guest speakers, STEM...
Greg and Kevin Smith
As soon as Northern Illinois University received its bid to the Discover Orange Bowl, NIU students Greg and Kevin Smith began making plans to ensure that they would be in Florida for the game on New Year’s Day. That made them no different from several thousand other NIU students who attended the game. What did...
Katie Seelinger and her family at Take Back the Night 2010.
When Katie Seelinger and her husband made the decision to study at NIU, she wanted to become a doctor. As she began working toward this goal, her courses followed the expected path, touching on important aspects of biology, chemistry and anatomy. That trail was diverted the day Seelinger discovered the Women’s Studies Program. While browsing...
Huskie Family Connections (HFC) invites all parents, students, and additional family members to join in the variety of Fall Family Weekend activities and events taking place from Friday, Sept. 21, through Sunday, Sept. 23. Fall Family Weekend is not only an excellent way for NIU families to get acquainted with the campus and surrounding community, but it also...
A student shows off the Huskie he drew to adorn the cover of his Health Careers scrap book.
Friday nights were like graduation at Stevenson Towers this summer. The cafeteria tables were draped in red and black cloths. Parents arrived after work in sundresses, suits or coveralls and steel-toed boots, on time so they wouldn’t miss dinner and the ceremony. As campers showed off their week’s worth of accomplishments and received their certificates...