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Videos: NIU professor films tornado forming in northern Illinois

By Northern Star staff | April 10, 2015

Professor Eric Jones filmed a tornado forming and touching down Thursday in northern Illinois.Videos courtesy Jones.Part one Part two Part three

Barb City On Tap at the Convocation Center

By Kelsey Brown | March 31, 2015

Jeanette Oakeshott pours a sample of Dale's Pale Ale Saturday at Barb City On Tap Craft Beer Festival. The festival featured over 100 different kinds of craft beers to taste, as well as live music and food for purchase. All who worked at the pouring stations were volunteers for Tail's Humane Society and accepted donations for the organizations at their tables.

Students perform at African Student Alliance’s 1st Cultural Pageant

By Suresh Vakati | March 30, 2015

Students perform in a unity dance during the African Student Alliance's first Cultural Pageant on Saturday in the Altgeld Hall ballroom. Students performed during the African Student Alliance's first Cultural Pageant on Saturday in the Altgeld Hall ballroom. The pageant brought together contestants who represented nations and cultures from across Africa.

Oaken Acres hosts wildlife rehabilitation presentation

Oaken Acres hosts wildlife rehabilitation presentation

By Alex LaBee | March 4, 2015

Nancy Kasinski, handler with Oaken Acres of Sycamore, holds Hamlet, a barred owl Wednesday in Montgomery Hall's auditorium. Christy Gebritz, director of operations at Oaken Acres asserts, said if an injured animal is found in the wild to call a shelter immediately and keep the animal in a warm, dark, quiet space and not to feed it or give it water. Students can learn more about caring for wildlife with Oaken Acres by volunteering or interning with the organization.

Elementary school children visit Convocation Center for basketball

By Ryan Ocasio | March 4, 2015

Littlejohn, Tilton and Mary Morgan elementary school children cheered on the Huskies during their field trip visit for Wednesday's game against the Toledo Rockets at the Convocation Center. Kids held up handcrafted signs and posters, participated in on-court games and competitions and got a chance to meet and high five Victor E. Huskie.

Northern Television Center Hosts Open House Anchor Night

By Alex LaBee | March 4, 2015

Senior marketing major Tyler Scannell (left) and Brett Tudela, producer at Northern Television Center and senior journalism major, monitor and edit a mock broadcast for students who attended the Anchor Night Open House on Wednesday. Students were offered the chance to read from the teleprompter and learn about the television broadcast station at NIU. NTC news broadcasts on campus channel 20 Mondays through Thursdays and has a YouTube channel at YouTube.com/user/NTCNIU/videos.

Dr. Dan Gebo discusses history of human evolution

By Brandon Semel | March 4, 2015

Graduate anthropology student Steve Jankiewicz listens as anthropology professor Dan Gebo explains the history of the discovery of human origins in Africa. Participants traveled to Madison, Wisc., to hear from Donald Johanson of Arizona State University. He discovered the most complete skeletons of one of our earliest human ancestors: Lucy. Johanson's talk, The Story of Us: Becoming Human, was sponsored by National Geographic Live.

Cetlic Jam at House Cafe

By Alex LaBee | February 26, 2015

Psychology graduate student David Boveri plays an Irish flute with band members during Wednesday's Celtic Jam event at the House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway. Every last Wednesday of the month the House Cafe hosts a special Irish music jam where musicians of all skill levels are invited to play traditional Irish pub and dance music.

Students put on snowshoes during Outdoor Adventure Center event

By Brandon Semel | February 4, 2015

Kamila Krupiarz, junior mechanical engineering major, co-led the Adventure Center's Moonlight Snowshoe event in Afton Forest Preserve Tuesday night.

(Left to right) Sneha Redd, graduate computer science student; Akhil Munnetula, graduate industrial engineering student; Mansa Reddy, graduate computer science student; and Sripada Sai Subhash, graduate electrical engineering student, build a snowman during Sunday’s blizzard near West Ridge Apartments on Ridge Drive. The snowstorm was expected to drop more than a foot of snow on northern Illinois.

Feb. 1, 2015, blizzard

By Suresh Vakati | February 1, 2015

NIU's DeKalb campus was shrouded in snow during a Feb. 1, 2015, blizzard. This is the view from the 14th floor of the Holmes Student Center.