DeKALB– NIU Career Services will be hosting an All-Majors Internship and Job Fair at the Convocation Center.
The event will take place 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m on Feb. 15.
Students and alumni are welcome to visit the fair to interact with employers...
By Colin Kempsell, Senior News Reporter
| January 23, 2023
DeKALB – Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency John J. Kim announced Jan. 17 that the City of Sycamore will receive $4,111,200 million in funds to repair its lead service lines.
The money comes from a State Revolving Fund from...
By Evan Mellon, Assistant News Editor
| January 22, 2023
The Student Government Association confirmed Emmanuel Corpuz, a junior mechatronics engineering major, to the Senate. Corpuz will represent University Housing.
“As a current Neptune resident, I am not blind to these issues we face on campus,” Corpuz...
By Colin Kempsell, Senior News Reporter
| January 20, 2023
DeKALB – NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology received $1.5 million in federal funds to convert its cleanroom lab into a fabrication lab for microchip research, design and prototyping.
The college’s microchip fabrication lab,...
DeKALB – NIU’s Reproductive Rights Association (RRA) is sponsoring a charity drive selling shirts for the Chicago Abortion Fund (CAF) from now until Feb. 7.
The shirts display the RRA’s logo on the front and on the back they say “bodily autonomy...
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On an ordinary day, the College Grind, a cafe in the Holmes Student Center,...
A new online course at NIU, Braven Leadership and Career Accelerator, aims to help students improve their career searching and networking skills. The course, UNIV 301, is run in part by both NIU career service specialists and Braven professional coaches.
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The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation has released its 2022 adult use cannabis sales records.
Dispensary sales totaled to $1,552,324,820.37. This figure is a 12% increase from 2021 and a 131% increase since 2020, the first...
This week, the average cost of gas in Illinois has risen to $3.48 per gallon, this is up from last week's average cost by 10.2 cents.
The average price of gasoline in Illinois currently stands 17.9 cents higher per gallon than last month at this time...
By Evan Mellon, Assistant News Editor
| January 17, 2023
The SAFE-T Act promised to eliminate cash bail, which proponents said would create more equality under the law. Now, its future is uncertain as the Illinois Supreme Court will decide its legality.
In late December, at least 58 counties, including the...
After 10 years at NIU, Anne Edwards has left her position as director of the Center for Black Studies to return to her alma mater Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Edwards worked for six years in Career Services at NIU. In 2018, she was...
DeKALB – At approximately 11:15 p.m. Sunday, two NIU students in Patterson Hall West were in a physical altercation that resulted in one being transported to Kishwaukee Hospital.
The students were arguing before the incident occurred and had known...
