DeKALB- NIU’s Rebuilding Democracy Lecture Series will host Naomi Klein on April 2 as the final guest speaker for the 2024-2025 lecture series. The event will take place at 5 p.m. CST and will be held over Zoom.
Naomi Klein is an award-winning author...
DeKALB – A student group at NIU plans to launch a weather balloon into the upper stratosphere from NIU’s football field in the first week of May.
The group, Proxima Centauri Alpha, consists of 16 members despite being started this semester and...
DeKALB – The Student Government Association (SGA) passed several bills aimed at improving the transparency of the judicial branch and announced election information at Friday’s meeting.
In Illinois, the Open Meetings Act (OMA) requires...
DeKALB- Members of the clerical and administrative professionals union expressed their disappointment in employee wages at Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting as the union’s contract is set to expire at the end of June, setting the stage for negotiations.
The...
DeKALB – NIU is launching a new artificial intelligence digital marketing course for students.
The Digital Marketing Certificate Program is a non-credit, asynchronous online program created by the NIU College of Business intended to help students...
DeKALB - In compliance with an executive order signed by President Donald Trump after he took office earlier this year, NIU has removed DEI language from its website.
Among the changes is the removal of a page titled “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion...
DeKALB – NIU Forensics won the Open Debate Sweepstakes in the four year university division and placed fourth overall at the annual state tournament for competitive forensics, or speech and debate, on Feb. 28 and March 1.
“This tournament is a...
By Emily Beebe, Assistant Opinion Editor
| March 17, 2025
DeKALB – The information in this report is compiled from the NIU Police Department’s Daily Crime Log.
Any case defined as “unfounded” was not included in this list. Any case “closed by exception” is closed due to circumstances...
DeKALB – The Student Government Association (SGA) passed a bill to prevent removed senators from being reappointed in a following session and announced several events at their meeting on March 7.
BILL TO PREVENT REMOVED SENATORS FROM BEING APPOINTED...
Correction: This map was updated on 3/25 to reflect that there are three students from Alaska, three from Hawaii, and three from Puerto Rico. There is one student from Guam, however the map we use does not allow us to include Guam in the visualization.
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DeKALB - Quantum computing could change the fundamentals of telecommunications, banking and data storage.
But what is quantum computing?
Classical computers function by using switches, called transistors, which can either give a value of one or...
