Arctic air is set to leave DeKalb this weekend for everyone staying behind during Spring Break, according to an NIU weather forecast.The arrival of Pacific air will bring with it a high of 30 degrees starting Saturday and a high of 40 degrees Monday through...
The deadline to apply for the Broadband Innovation Grant offered by the Division of Information Technology is April 15.Students, faculty and staff are invited to apply. The grant may be up to $30,000 per year for three years. The grant is offered to a...
NIU’s student health insurance cost will increase from $744 per semester to $1,052 in Fiscal Year 2016 — pending Board of Trustees approval — because of the addition of benefits in accordance with the Affordable Care Act.Here’s a look at those...
NIU UNICEF Campus Initiative will hold a screening of “The Concert for Bangladesh” at 7 p.m. March 19 in Cole Hall, Room 100.The movie features performances from George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston and Leon Russell....
NIU’s Certified Public Accountant Review will no longer be offered after September due to outside competition and a decline in enrollment.The program is designed to help people with a degree in accountancy prepare for the Uniform Certified Public Accountant...
Candidates for the Student Association executive elections were posted Wednesday, kicking off campaigning up to the election days on March 24 and 25.CandidatesPresident: Benjamin Donovan and Nathan LupsteinVice president: Reginald Bates Jr. and Robert...
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/.Feb. 261. At 10:45 p.m. Feb....
Athletic Director Sean Frazier said he is looking at how students will be able to use new and upgraded athletic facilities as part of the Facilities Master Plan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
