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Students develop way to help Africa create electricity

By Felix Sarver | February 14, 2012

NIU social entrepreneurs are in need of votes for Dell Social Innovation Challenge to win funding for a new device to help Africa create electricity. John Harkness, Alan Hurt, Jason Schwebke and Mike Sutarik formed Light Up Africa and came up with the...

Two SA Supreme Court justices impeached Sunday, one Senator dropped

By Felix Sarver | November 6, 2011

Two Student Association Supreme Court justices were impeached, several senators were inducted and one senator was dropped at the SA Senate meeting Sunday. Justices Ryan Hebda and Courtney Hogan were impeached for neglecting their duties and lack of attendance....

Industrial engineering major Alyssa Bramm encourages students to donate shoes for children in Africa Tuesday afternoon in MLK Commons. The event was a part of Engineers Without Borders A Day Without Shoes.

Students go without shoes for a cause

By Faith Healy | October 4, 2011

Tuesday marked the Engineers Without Borders' (EWB) first annual "A Day Without Shoes" event.From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., members of several groups, including EWB, Alpha Phi Omega, National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and Institute of Industrial Engineers,...

Rohan Escobar (left), senior electrical engineering major, hands an NIU bag to Jacqueline Frank (center) of Nyegina Secondary School. Dr. Andrew Otieno (right) challenged the students to find out where Belize was and awarded them with prizes. 

Engineers Without Borders works to help Tanzanian school

By Ross Hettel | September 7, 2011

A high school in Tanzania has student organization Engineers Without Borders to thank for its donation of free time and technical knowledge to improving the 600-person school. Two years into the five-year commitment of working with the school, the engineers...

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