NIU Today

NIU Libraries curator Lynne M. Thomas digs “Doctor Who,” and, it turns out, she’s not alone. Thomas has been nominated for a Hugo Award, the leading award for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy, for a 2009 book she edited with Tara O’Shea. The book is titled, “Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor...

Every student who passes through the doors of the College of Engineering & Engineering Technology (CEET) must complete a senior design capstone project. The Senior Design Sequence is the most important challenge of the senior year. This month’s graduating seniors presented their projects Friday, May 6, and competed for monetary awards given by each department within CEET and...

An amendment change to House Bill 180 that was created in an NIU classroom was unanimously approved by state lawmakers Monday, May 23. As part of a final project in Sociology 392: Organizing for Social Action, students were challenged with finding a cause and presenting recommendations for its improvement. The result was a possible amendment...

NIU’s Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management has a new marketing campaign and message for students: Students can’t help becoming attached to Victor E. Huskie and all the activities he can offer them.  The campaign’s message is about getting involved in campus life. For both current and prospective students, it’s important to remember the...

If there’s strength in numbers, Chicago’s outer-ring towns gained big-time muscle from 2000 to 2010, according to a new analysis of census data by NIU geography professor Richard Greene. During the century’s first decade, well-established edge communities such as Joliet, Aurora, Elgin, Waukegan and Kenosha added to their already burgeoning populations and strengthened their positions atop...

NIU Today, the official news and information website of Northern Illinois University, moved today to a new online home. The URL is now www.niutoday.info. Today’s move to a more reliable platform will enhance the performance of the site and facilitate future expansion of content. Launched last August by NIU’s Media Relations and Internal Communications team,...

Three Ph.D. students in the Department of Physics — all of whom are members of NIU’s team of researchers working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), based at the CERN research facility near Geneva, Switzerland — recently have won highly competitive awards. Chad Suhr was awarded a one-year $30,000 fellowship from theArgonne National Laboratory to continue...

The 2010 season was a record-setting one on the field for the Northern Illinois football program.  NIU learned today that its performance in the classroom also put the Huskies into an elite category as Northern Illinois was one of only 14 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams honored with a Public Recognition Award by the NCAA. Each...

Members of NIU’s Marketing and Branding Committee need your help to choose a new logo for the university. The 2011-12 academic year will begin this fall with a new tagline – “Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow” – and a new logo that conveys a unified and consistent institutional visual identity. First, though, results from a brief...

NIU’s College of Business was invited to be a member of the SAP University Alliances Community. SAP is dominant player in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software market. Academic institutions are invited into the SAP University Alliances Community only after meeting stringent criteria. Joining the SAP University Alliance Community will permit NIU business faculty to use SAP software and...

The NIU College of Business added to its list of accolades this week with the release of more detailed information from the Bloomberg Businessweek rankings of business schools. Earlier this year, Bloomberg released the overall results, with NIU placing at number 84 out of more than 600 eligible AACSB-certified business schools. This week a more...

The Northern Illinois track and field team is hosting the 2011 Mid-American Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships this weekend at the NIU Track and Field & Soccer Complex. The championships began this morning with the men’s hammer throw competition. Action begins at 11 a.m. Friday, May 13, with the 110-meter hurdles in the decathlon. The men’s high jump...