By Claudie Miller, Lifestyle Writer
| February 8, 2022
DeKALB- The Special Collections and Archives (SCA) is a new unit that coordinates the services and programs of the Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) and the Regional History Center and University Archives (RHCUA).
For the last two years,...
DeKALB— A student was found unresponsive Monday morning on campus and pronounced dead after an apparent medical crisis, according to NIU spokesperson Joe King.
The university declined to provide the name of the student, but emails obtained by the...
DeKALB— Total enrollment has decreased by 4% from the Spring 2021 semester, according to 10-day enrollment data. The enrollment numbers reflected a familiar trend that NIU and other schools across the country have seen since the pandemic hit.
There...
DeKALB— In the last week, the average price of gas has increased 10.9 cents per gallon, averaging a total of $3.61/g on February 7th, according to GasBuddy's survey of 4,378 stations in Illinois.
The cheapest gas prices in the state reported...
By Bailey Eschbach, Lifestyle writer
| February 7, 2022
DeKALB — The weather in DeKalb for the second week of Feb. looks as though it may be a warmer week than we have seen so far this year. Even with warmer weather there is still a chance for more snow later in the week, according to the National Weather...
DeKALB – NIU President Lisa Freeman announced her goals for the 2021-2022 academic year in a Board of Trustees meeting last November. The goals presented to the Board of Trustees include annual and multi-year objectives in six different themes.
For...
The Illinois Department of Public Health reported over 60,000 new cases of COVID-19. This includes confirmed cases and probable cases of the virus in Illinois. There has been an increase in deaths since Jan. 28, 2022. The 60,389 cases reported this week...
DeKALB— NIU’s SHIELD COVID-19 testing sites will reopen on Friday after all testing locations throughout the state were closed Thursday due to weather and concern over tests being backlogged due to lab closures.
The Holmes Student Center testing...
DeKALB- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is pushing to make vaccines available to children from 6 months to 4 years old. According to a press release posted on the IDPH website, data submitted earlier this week from Pfizer-BioNTech asked...
DeKALB— On Thursday, April 7 the 13th Annual Showcase of Student Writing will take place from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Duke Ellington Ballroom at the Holmes Student Center.
The free event is sponsored by the English department’s first-year...
