An interactive map launched today on NIU’s website, bit.ly/1FhxnSJ, will allow users to navigate campus from home or when on the go.The $20,000 software, known as CampusBird, offers overhead and street views of NIU’s DeKalb campus through 14 filter...
A 14-year-old boy at a science fair used 3-D printing to make a prosthetic limb for a girl after he learned her parents had paid $80,000 for one.Federico Sciammarella, an associate professor of mechanical engineering speaking at Tuesday’s 3-D Printing...
Sixteen lighting fixtures will be added to Greek Row in an effort to improve safety in the area.The lights are expected to be installed over Thanksgiving or winter break so the streets will be clear of students’ cars, said 1st ward Alderman David Jacobson....
DeKalb County saw a slight decrease in voter turnout for midterms, moving from 51 percent turnout in 2010 to 49 percent for Election Day Tuesday.In the 2010 midterms, 57,102 people were registered to vote and only 29,197 voted. This election, 58,482 people...
Douglas Johnson was the winner of the 2014 country clerk midterm elections.Johnson received 16013, or 58.4 percent, votes to win. Johnson said he was pleased with the result despite lower turnout than DeKalb saw in the 2010 midterm.“I was very pleased...
The Barbed Wire Betties are coming home for the first time to challenge the DuPage Derby Dames next week.The Betties will play their first home bout 6:30 p.m. Nov. 8 at Huntley Middle School, 1515 S. Fourth St. A 10,000-pound roller derby track will be...
Students waited at the Chicago Marathon finish line to help the more than 40,000 runners who participated in the race Sunday.Amanda Santucci and Megan Haduch, sophomore communicative disorders major and members of Lambda Sigma Sophomore Honors Society,...
Bill Finucane, 2nd ward alderman and alumnus, fondly remembers the year he drove former Bear Ron Rivera during a Homecoming parade.Finucane came to DeKalb in fall 1970, graduated from NIU in 1984 and received his master’s in 1991. Finucane said the...
