![Family members and friends of victims of the 2008 shooting, alongside NIU community members, stand together as a crowd during the 15-year memorial, held at 3:06 p.m. as the bells of the Holmes Student Center echoed through campus. (Sean Reed | Northern Star)](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MG_0120-900x600.jpg)
IN PICTURES: NIU looks forward, together 15 years after tragic shooting
By Sean Reed, Photo Editor
| February 14, 2023
![The Peaceful Reflection Garden outside Cole Hall honors the five students lost to the mass shooting in 2008.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/forwardTogether_NSFilePhoto.jpg)
Annual Forward, Together, Forward vigil held Tuesday
By Kaitlyn Lee-Gordon, News Reporter
| February 12, 2023
Shooting survivors united during wreath laying ceremony
By Lindsey Salvatelli
| February 15, 2018
The Forward Together: Remembering exhibit will be on display Feb. 14
By Northern Star Staff
| February 8, 2018
![Valentines Day allows love and life](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/9fffc8f735d2e7991e0cfa63e59ff918-900x571.jpg)
Valentine’s Day allows love and life
By Tony Abrego
| February 15, 2017
![Bell toll scheduled in remembrance of 2008 shooting](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/f2d1b517fc3417a796dbabdc221b7f07-900x598.jpg)
Bell toll scheduled in remembrance of 2008 shooting
By Northern Star Staff
| February 12, 2017
![Kaitlyn King (left) and Joe Palmer, recipients of the 2014 Forward, Together Forward Scholarship, lay flowers by Gayle Dubowski’s memorial stone at a ceremony Saturday. The ceremony honored those lost when gunman Steven Kazmierczak killed five students before killing himself on Feb. 14, 2008, in Cole Hall. The scholarship is given to students who best embody the qualities of the shooting victims.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/a12eac7b11f0d192759dbdddd57044e0-900x600.jpg)
Community honors Feb. 14 victims
By Nick Smith
| February 16, 2015
![Kaitlyn King (left) and Joe Palmer, recipients of the 2014 Forward, Together Forward Scholarship, lay flowers by Gayle Dubowski’s memorial stone at a ceremony Saturday. The ceremony honored those lost when gunman Steven Kazmierczak killed five students before killing himself on Feb. 14, 2008, in Cole Hall. The scholarship is given to students who best embody the qualities of the shooting victims.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/a12eac7b11f0d192759dbdddd57044e0-900x600.jpg)
Community honors Feb. 14, 2008, victims with moment of silence
By Kelly Bauer
| February 16, 2015
![Loved ones of the five victims of the Feb. 14, 2008, shootings put roses on the Cole Hall memorial during the wreath-laying ceremony in 2013.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/6ad3ee925772f402ee9180a6393decf1.jpg)
Moment of silence to be held to honor Feb. 14, 2008, shooting victims
By Northern Star staff
| January 28, 2015
![Memorial stones stand in front of Cole Hall to honor the students who were killed Feb. 14, 2008.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/50d2b8035cf21f705ba4da8e3aec82ab.jpg)
Feb. 14 victims still remembered at Cole Hall
By Kelly Bauer
| February 17, 2014
We all feel loss of Feb. 14, 2008 shooting
By Danny Cozzi
| February 16, 2014
![Loved ones of the five victims of the Feb. 14, 2008, shootings put roses on the Cole Hall memorial during the wreath-laying ceremony in 2013.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/6ad3ee925772f402ee9180a6393decf1.jpg)
Feb. 14 tragedy must be remembered by current students
By Northern Star Editorial Board
| February 14, 2014
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