The Department of History will host Kate Brown, University of Maryland history professor.Brown will give a lecture, "Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters" 6 p.m. March 2, Swen Parson Hall,...
The Black Student Union will hold a Flint water drop-off for victims of the water crisis in Flint, Mich. Drop-off locations will include noon to 3 p.m. Wednesday and Friday at Neptune Central, noon to 3 p.m. Thursday and Monday in the Holmes Student...
DeKalb will receive an inch of snow from the storm today, said NIU Meteorologist Gilbert Sebenste. The snow storm is caused by an intense low pressure system in southeast Texas that is moving up toward Ohio, Sebenste said. Chicago will be hit with...
Campus Activities Board, LMO and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity will hold the “Masters of the Mix: Faceoff Edition” DJ battle 8 p.m. March 3 in the Holmes Student Center, Carl Sandburg Auditorium.DJ Pharris from Power 92 is lined up to be master of ceremonies...
A group of organizations at NIU will hold a series of events in honor of National Eating Disorders Awareness week today through Thursday to promote body positivity, according to an NIU news release.Organizations participating will be the Counseling &...
Chouki El Hamel of Arizona State University will give a public lecture 6 p.m. Wednesday in Swen Parson Hall, room 188.The Graduate Colloquium Committee, Department of History, and Phi Beta Delta-Zeta Gamma Chapter of NIU will present El Hamel’s lecture...
The Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning is taking applications for full-time sophomore, junior and senior students to be peer mentors for four programs.Students can peer mentor for Research Rookies, Huskie Service Scholars, NIU Service...
Jenee Carlson, freshman business major and Research Rookies member, will hold an anonymous food needs survey.Carlson will study food needs in order to reduce hunger on campus, according to an NIU news release.From 5:30-7:30 p.m. March 3 and April 7 at...
NIU experienced a series of blackouts Friday due to 70 mph winds.All the problems were due to high winds, said NIU Spokesperson Joe King. Repairs and maintenance had to be done by ComEd, King said.Northern View Community had no power for approximately...
The following was taken directly from the NIU Police Department. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law. The NIU Police Department provides police reports online at niu.edu/publicsafety/.Tuesday1. At 8:05 p.m., theft...
Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks to lawmakers as he leaves the House chambers after delivering the State of the Budget Address to a joint session of the General Assembly on Wednesday at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. Rauner vetoed Senate Bill 2043 on Friday, which would have appropriated $397 million for MAP funding.
