Private lessons and classes are available through the NIU Community School of the Arts. Classes and the ensemble meet on Wednesdays beginning Jan. 30 in the Music Building. Quentin Dover teaches and directs the ensemble. Private guitar lessons are offered...
A successful retrieval of clean, whole samples from an Antarctic subglacial lake were collected for the first time by a group that included NIU researchers. The researchers drilled through Antarctic ice sheet to sample waters of Subglacial Lake Whillans....
Five NIU students received the 2013 Forward, Together Forward scholarships. Taylor Bogan, Caitlin Cavannaugh, Guadalupe Lopez, Sarah Pollack and Evan Wittke each received a one-time scholarship of $4,000 for the 2013-2014 academic year. The scholarship...
The NIU Ukulele Ensemble meets from 7 to 7:55 p.m. on Monday evenings. Beginning and intermediate level students are invited to bring a ukulele and participate in the ensemble. Eric Schroeder is the ensemble director. For more information about the class,...
Sometimes you’re just looking for any excuse to throw a party. Super Bowl XLVII is Sunday, and the Super Bowl is a reason to throw a party, if there ever was one. The pageantry! The spectacle! The athleticism! But what if you’re not particularly into...
The month of January is National Blood Donor Month and NIU Human Resource Services will host a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday. The blood drive will take place in the Heartland mini-coach, which will be parked outside the Human Resource Services...
It’s About Time! (Management) will be hosted from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday in the Illinois Room of the Holmes Student Center. The event is part of a workshop series called Soup and Success, geared toward creating student-centered events and encouraging...
Save-A-Vet (SAV) is determined to help rescue military working dogs (MWD) from being put down when their service to our country is done. SAV provides housing for disabled veterans in exchange for caring for the dogs. Danny Scheurer is accompanied by retired...
Below-freezing temperatures call for a hot cup of something delicious. An inch of ice on the ground is an even bigger motivator to have your coffee pots and tea kettles rarin’ to go at 7 a.m. Although cream and sugar have become a coffee drinker’s...
On Saturday, the Congress Theater, 2135 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago, was packed with bassheads ready to dance to electronica music provided by Excision, Zomboy and Vaski. A “basshead” is someone who enjoys an excessive amount of bass in music, and...
Laughter was a great way to distract NIU students from the icy weather on campus. Two comedians, Paul Varghese and J. Chris Newberg, performed 8 p.m. Sunday at the Student Holmes Center. Each comedian had a one-hour segment and tailored their jokes to...
The Student Association (SA) met on Sunday to discuss senator involvement and to elect members into board and director positions. Senators Mathew Wellington, Brandon Phillips, Patrick Birk, Anthony Sarna, and Michael Theodore were elected in by senate...
