Outreach and Engagement Associate Andrew Pemberton's parents taught him the importance of helping people in the community. Today, that sense of volunteerism hasn't left. Pemberton helped organize NIU's Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge...
Thomas Roberts, professor emeritus of educational psychology, will speak on the broad field of psychedelic drugs at a lecture hosted by Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP).The lecture is at 8 p.m. today in Room 405 of the Holmes Student Center and...
Start prepping your best backwards walk - tonight NIU begins the hunt for summer orientation leaders.NIU's Orientation and First-Year Experience will hold its first summer 2012 orientation leader informational meeting at 6 p.m. tonight in the Douglas...
If a student group is absent from campus for more than one academic year,it must now re-apply for Student Association Senate recognition.A bill to amend bylaws concerning the recognition process of disbanded or absent organizations was passed unanimously...
Steven Williams and Elizabeth Elie were crowned Homecoming king and queen during halftime at Saturday's football game against the West Michigan Broncos."It's definitely an honor," Elie said. "This is always something I wanted to do before I graduated."Elie...
There are currently 35 registered sex offenders living in DeKalb, one of which is a current NIU student who was charged with criminal sexual abuse, according to the National Sex Offender Public website. NIU policy states if the university finds that...
A DeKalb man was found dead in his apartment after the DeKalb Fire Department responded to University Village for a report of a structure fire, 630 N. Annie Glidden Road, at 2:13 a.m. Saturday, according to a DeKalb fire department press release.According...
Some compelling studies have emerged over the past decade that have linked prohibited substances--including MDMA (Ecstasy), and psilocybin ("magic mushrooms")--with significant, and sometimes profound, medical applications.Unfortunately for researchers,...
Innovation plays a large role in operating a successful business, and it isn't just the ability to invent something, but to improve upon a process or a product, said business management professor Lynn Neeley. For the entrepreneurs who started TicketFace.com,...
Friday marked one year since student Antinette ‘Toni' Keller disappeared. On Oct. 14, 2010, Keller, a freshman art major, went missing. Keller told her friends around noon Oct. 14 she was going to Prairie Park to work on an art project. She never returned....
Starting today and ending Friday, the Campus Recreation will host its mid-semester Group Fitness Free Week. Students can try out any of the Campus Recreation's group fitness classes for free. The free classes will include Yoga, Body Combat, Cycle, Zumba,...
Domestic abuse is not easily defined. It can be psychological, emotional or physical. It does not just happen in heterosexual couples, but can also occur in homosexual unions. Men and women can be both abused and abusers. Experts even disagree on what...
