NIU Today

Senior guard Xavier Silas scored 31 points, including a career-high-tying six three-pointers, as the Northern Illinois men’s basketball team survived for a 71-69 victory on Tuesday night at Eastern Michigan. The Huskies led by 13 at the intermission and hung on for two-point victory. Junior forward Tim Toler added 11 points and a team-high seven...

Northern Illinois University and DOER Marine today unveiled a new 28-foot long, cigar-shaped robotic submarine to be used in exploration beneath the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Bristling with high-tech instrumentation, the submarine is among the exhibits at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco this week during the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting. The...

Northern Illinois won its ninth-straight game and the outright Mid-American Conference West Division title with a dominating 71-3 victory over Eastern Michigan at Rynearson Stadium on Friday afternoon. “The big thing is I am proud the team – they have gone to Ball State and Eastern Michigan in some tough atmospheres and they just like playing...

Northern Illinois turned a 21-14 halftime advantage over Buffalo into a 45-14 Homecoming victory Saturday at Huskie Stadium as NIU won its fourth straight game with a dominating second-half performance. With the win, the Huskies improved to 5-2 overall, 3-0 in the Mid-American Conference. Buffalo dropped to 2-4, 0-2. “From a defensive standpoint, we played...

Northern Illinois quarterback Chandler Harnish completed 16-of-20 passes for 281 yards and three touchdowns in three quarters and the Huskies used a 20-point outburst at the end of the first half en route to a 50-14 victory over Akron in the 2010 Mid-American Conference opener for both teams. NIU, which played on the road four...

Tailback Chad Spann ran for 223 yards and two touchdowns, including a game-clinching 61-yard run with 6:22 left, as Northern Illinois claimed its second win over a Big Ten Conference team in the last two seasons with a 34-23 win over Minnesota Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium.  NIU won for just the third time ever...

Sophomore Tommy Davis intercepted a Hail Mary pass from North Dakota quarterback Jake Landry on the final play of the game, securing a 23-17 victory Sautrday for Northern Illinois in the Huskies’ home opener. Northern Illinois improved to 1-1 on the year, while North Dakota fell to 0-2. Junior quarterback Chandler Harnish rushed for 178...

NIU President John Peters today announced the creation of the Vision 2020 Initiative to guide the university through what he expects to be an era of tremendous change and uncertainty for American higher education. “I think it is fair to say that the number of changes confronting us, and the magnitude and speed of those...

Northern Illinois University, which just this month opened a new one-stop services office for veterans, has been named among the top military friendly schools in the country. For the second consecutive year, G.I. Jobs magazine editors placed NIU on its list of colleges that provide extensive services and support to veterans and students currently in...

Not only does NIU English instructor John Bradley have a new collection of poetry, but he also has another award to go along with it. The Cleveland State University Poetry Center has given its 2009 open competition award to Bradley for his latest book, “You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know.” “It’s an honor to...

Northern Illinois fans can now get the latest and most up-to-date information on the Huskie football team directly from Head Coach Jerry Kill as NIU and ISP Sports will debut the “Inside Huskie Football” Radio Show on Tuesday, August 31 from 7-8 p.m.  The one-hour show will originate weekly from Fatty’s Pub & Grille (1312...

Trained by experts at NIU, community organizers from a conflict-torn region of the southern Philippines are now teaching their neighbors to look at the bigger picture, resolve differences peacefully and be more active in mainstream society. The activists participated in a three-week summer workshop led by NIU faculty who have expertise in conflict resolution and...