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Family members and friends of victims of the 2008 shooting, alongside NIU community members, stand together as a crowd during the 15-year memorial, held at 3:06 p.m. as the bells of the Holmes Student Center echoed through campus. (Sean Reed | Northern Star)

IN PICTURES: NIU looks forward, together 15 years after tragic shooting

By Sean Reed, Photo Editor | February 14, 2023

DeKALB – A vigil was held Tuesday in remembrance of the victims of the Feb. 14, 2008 shooting that took place within the walls of Cole Hall that chilling Valentine’s Day. 15 years later, the university holds its annual “Forward Together Forward”...

People and cars pass by in the rain on Normal Road Thursday. The exposure was taken from a window on the fourth floor of Founders Memorial Library. (Mingda Wu | Northern Star)

IN PICTURES: Long exposures of a rainy day

By Mingda Wu, Photographer | February 9, 2023

The statue in front of Davis Hall on a sunny Thursday in the Central Quad. (Mingda Wu | Northern Star)

IN PICTURES: The geometry of campus

By Mingda Wu, Photographer | February 7, 2023

A close view of a completed panel of samples being tested in the COVID-19 wastewater screening lab at NIU. (Sean Reed | Northern Star)

IN PICTURES: Inside NIU’s COVID wastewater screening lab

By Sean Reed, Photo Editor | January 26, 2023

DeKALB – Northern Illinois University students and faculty have not been required to regularly screen for COVID-19 since the 2021-22 academic year, in favor of testing when symptomatic. In the absence of SHIELD testing, NIU has implemented a new way...

Below the dining hall, Neptune Central stays warm near the firepit, where students study at the surrounding couches and tables in the resident hall’s first floor. (Nyla Owens | Northern Star)

IN PICTURES: Secluded study spot gems

By Nyla Owens, Photojournalist | January 25, 2023

U.S. Representative Lauren Underwood and staff of the Microelectronics Research and Development Lab tour the space on Friday afternoon at the Engineering Building Atrium on campus. (Colin Kempsell | Northern Star)

IN PICTURES: Rep. Lauren Underwood visits NIU’s semiconductor lab

By Colin Kempsell | January 20, 2023

DeKalb – U.S. Representative Lauren Underwood paid NIU a visit on Friday afternoon to tour the NIU Microelectronics Research and Development Lab as part of a community tour of projects that the representative secured funding for as part of the federal...