DeKALB- In a newly approved initiative, DeKalb police officers will begin to patrol on Huskie buses.
This year, the Federal Transit Administration gave the city a $50,000 grant to cover the cost of additional bus-patrol shifts for DeKalb police officers.
The...
DeKALB - NIU has been awarded $475,000 to plant 450 trees across campus over the next four years.
The award is from the Morton Arboretum’s Chicago Region Trees Initiative.
The award was provided to close to 40 nonprofits, government entities...
DeKALB – NIU has seen a drop in spring enrollment compared to previous years.
In Spring 2025 there was a total enrollment of 14,158 students. This represents a 0.4% decline from Spring 2024 and a 10% decline compared to Spring 2019.
The...
DeKALB- Vicki Gerentes, NIU’s director of Fraternity and Sorority Life, spoke to the Northern Star about herself and her position.
WHAT KIND OF THINGS DO YOU DO IN YOUR FREETIME?
“I am a family person, I’m the oldest of three,...
This piece was updated as of 2/17 to make a correction.
Correction: The Northern Star previously wrote there was discussion to remove Chairperson Gonzalez. The discussion was to remove Chairperson Rosales.
DeKALB – At Friday’s Student Government...
DeKALB - Two weeks after a burst pipe required students to relocate from their dorms, NIU has completed work to ensure conditions are safe for students to return.
On Jan. 21, a pipe burst in Stevenson B Residence Hall caused unsafe conditions for the...
By Abel Naranjo, Sports Reporter
| February 6, 2025
DeKALB – NIU kicked off its Black Heritage Month events with a lecture from Sundiata Djata, an NIU history professor. Djata presented this year’s Dr. LaVerne Gyant Lecture Series on Tuesday evening.
Djata has a doctorate from the University of...
DeKALB – The NIU department of Industrial and Systems Engineering was awarded a grant to work on technology that would allow brain-to brain-communication.
A $600,000 grant from the National Sciences Foundation was approved October 1 to start research...
DeKALB – The sound of Huskie buses driving down DeKalb’s streets are familiar to students and residents alike.
But, the way the bus system operates has changed in the last six years.
NIU students and DeKalb residents made over one million...
DeKALB - Next fall, the Rockford Promise program at NIU will open to include Rock Valley College transfers.
Previously, students were only able to use the scholarship at NIU if they had a 3.0 GPA, were new graduates of Rockford public high schools...
DeKALB - Students were asked to relocate from Stevenson Towers Residence Hall to the Holmes Student Center Hotel for the weekend to speed up the drying process in the affected areas of the building because of flooding that happened last week.
On the...
