The first Cambodia Studies conference in the U.S. will be hosted by NIU this week, according to a NIU Center for Southeast Asian Studies press release. The conference, which is open to the public, will take place Thursday and end Sunday. Seventy papers...
Take a bite out of reality. The Reality Bytes film festival will begin at 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Jameson Auditorium in Cole Hall. The three-day film festival hosted by NIU’s Department of Communication will feature screenings and guest speaker Wilfredo...
As senior English major Chris Rowe walked across the bridge near Cole Hall, he heard a faint squawking noise behind him that suddenly grew louder. Rowe turned around and was startled to see a goose flapping its wings at him. The two looked at each other...
Reavis 205 used to be a classroom with a computer lab. Now it stands empty with nothing but a whiteboard, but not for long. Associate communications professor Laura Vazquez said the now empty classroom will be turned into a new smart classroom. Smart...
I went to the Feb. 14 memorial for the first time Tuesday.Although I've been enrolled at NIU since August 2008, I could never gather the courage to pay my respects at the past three wreath laying ceremonies. Part of the reason, I believe, came from the...
On a somber Valentine's Day, Joe Dubowski, father of fallen Huskie Gayle Dubowski, pointed to the a Forward, Together Forward Memorial Garden stone and said, "That's my daughter." Tuesday, NIU students and faculty gathered to reflect on the events of...
Over 300 gathered in newly renovated Cole Hall for a first glance at its anthropology museum and to check out the high-tech technology in the classrooms. Interim museum director Sara Pfannkuche said she was very happy with the museum space. The new museum...
A Northern Illinois University student walks past the front of Cole Hall, which reopened today after renovations began in March 2010. Cole Hall has been closed since being the site of the February 14, 2008 shooting at NIU, which killed five students and the gunman, Tuesday, January 17, 2012 in DeKalb, Ill.
Wreaths and rose stems no longer hold shut the doors to Cole Hall. As one enters the hall, they are submerged in a transformed world. An unlit common area waits to shelter more than just the handful of students speckled within the tall windows, to warm...
Cole Hall has always made me a bit anxious. The first time I felt that way I was stepping into Cole Hall in August 2005, my freshman year, for my very first college class, MATH 110. I was 18, nervous and still had no clue how I fit into the NIU community....
Tuesday marks the first day in almost four years the rooms of Cole Hall will host classes. The plan for the Cole Hall renovation started in March 2010. Workers were still there Friday, working on the finishing touches. According to a fact sheet provided...
It's official: Cole Hall will reopen as a classroom building for the spring 2012 semester, as discussed in a Faculty Senate meeting Wednesday. The building, closed since the Feb. 14, 2008 shootings and currently under renovation, will begin housing classes...
