The Mortar Board Senior Honor Society is accepting applications for the 2014-2015 school year.Mortar Board is an organization that recognizes seniors for their achievements in leadership, service and scholarship. Applications are due by Dec. 20 and students...
Nov. 2• At 1:24 a.m., an officer stopped a car at 200 Annie Glidden Road. The driver, Nathan J. Baert, 20, of Cortland, was arrested for DUI and unlawful consumption of alcohol by a minor.• At 1:36 p.m., an officer went to Northern View Apartments...
The football team will show its support for military veterans at Wednesday’s game against Ball State.Football players will wear patriotic jerseys during the game. Athletics will auction off the jerseys for charity, with proceeds going to Active Heroes.Active...
To celebrate International Education Week, international menus are being offered at the residence halls and Blackhawk Food Court, winners of campus international education awards will be announced and there will be events throughout the week.This year’s...
Trojan Condoms ranked NIU 73rd of 140 colleges in its Sexual Health Report Card college rankings.NIU rose from its rank in 2012 of 98. Colleges from across the nation are ranked by a team led by Bert Sperling of Sperling’s BestPlaces based on criteria,...
Potential students got an introduction to NIU at the semester’s last open house Monday at the Holmes Student Center.The event was held in the Duke Ellington Ballroom, where representatives from NIU’s departments, organizations and all of its colleges...
Anthropology professor Giovanni Bennardo has been awarded a $218,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to lead a team to investigate the effect of climate change on the cultural models of primary food produces in the world.Fifteen scholars and...
Lesley Rigg has been named the interim vice president for Research and Graduate Studies.As interim vice president she will manage the college’s graduate facilities and technology budget and promote culture in her college, among other things. She will...
The 2014-15 Forward, Together Forward Scholarship is now accepting applications.The scholarship is in honor of the five students who died in the Feb. 14, 2008, shooting.Applicants for the scholarship must have at least a 2.5 cumulative GPA, have successfully...
The Student Association wants to change the way the Recreation Center is funded.Over the past three school years, the Rec has only received 57 percent of the funding it has requested from the SA, according to a report from Paul Julion, SA director of...
Student Association senators nominated speaker candidates at their Senate meeting Sunday. Speaker elections will be held next week.The SA speaker is the regulator of SA Senate meetings and the senators. He or she is also the acting voice of the student...
DeafPride members held a Sign Sync event Thursday night in Wirtz Hall Auditorium to raise awareness for National Deaf Awareness Week.The student organization “glossed” over several pop hits to music and lyrics during the event. Glossing is a term...
