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The NIU Foundation invites all faculty and staff from units within the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, the Division of Outreach, Engagement and Information Technologies and Intercollegiate Athletics to apply for the FY2012 Venture Grants Awards. This program focuses support toward the university’s strategic planning initiatives. Grantees will be selected based on their potential...

Erika Weeden will launch an organization near Mother McAuley High School to help clean up her community on the South Side of Chicago. Olivia Guerra will teach more of her teenage peers at Rock Falls High School about the Search Institute’s “40 developmental assets” that help to foster healthy, caring and responsible adults. Emily Rohman...

When pressed, Darrell “Doc” Newell would admit that things like mechanical engineering or industrial technology were important. But to his mind, electrical engineering was always first among equals. Therefore, it was appropriate that family, friends and former colleagues gathered Saturday, June 11 to see the Electrical Engineering Suite in the NIU College of Engineering and...

The NIU Foundation invites all faculty and staff from units within the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, the Division of Outreach, Engagement and Information Technologies and Intercollegiate Athletics to apply for the FY2012 Venture Grants. This program focuses support toward the university’s strategic planning initiatives. Grantees will be selected based on their potential to...

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...

The NIU Foundation Venture Grants program supports faculty and staff in their pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and outreach to the larger community. Funds are awarded each fiscal year through a competitive application process and recipients are chosen by the NIU Foundation Grants Committee. This year, three Venture Grants were awarded, totaling $35,000. Huskie...

The NIU Alumni Association and the NIU Foundation invite Huskie fans to travel on the VIP Bowl Charter to Boise for the 2010 uDrove Humanitarian Bowl. The VIP Bowl Charter includes: Round-trip air transportation. Ground transportation. Double-occupancy hotel room in the NIU team hotel. Game ticket. Pre-game reception ticket. VIP gift bag. The trip departs...

NIU Forensics will sponsor a fundraiser from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1, to benefit the Antinette “Toni” Keller Scholarship Fund. The event will be held at Potbelly Sandwich Shop, 1013 W. Lincoln Hwy., which will donate  25 percent of all sales during those hours to the scholarship fund. Huskies United, a group dedicated to bringing...

The Antinette “Toni” Keller Scholarship Fund has been established in memory of Antinette “Toni” Keller, a member of our Huskie family. This scholarship will be awarded to an incoming freshman who will major in studio art at Northern Illinois University. Recipients of this scholarship award will be provided the funds for their freshman year. A single award...

NIU alum Jeffery Yordon will present “Building Bridges and Breaking Barriers” at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, in Altgeld Hall. The event is being sponsored by Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Yordon will discuss current job market trends and how to distinguish yourself. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.  Yordon received a bachelor’s degree from NIU....

The fall 2010 issue of Northern Now celebrates the successful completion of True North, NIU’s first-ever comprehensive fundraising campaign. In true NIU style, alumni and friends came forward to exceed the campaign’s $150 million goal with more than $160 million in gifts to the university. Read also about NIU alumnus Anies Baswedan, president of Paramadina...

The NIU Foundation is calling for proposals for its annual Venture Grants, to be awarded in December.  The NIU Foundation Venture Grant program will focus support toward the university’s strategic planning initiatives. Grantees will be selected based on their potential to advance two of the plan’s major imperatives. The strategic imperatives previously chosen for the FY2010...