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Ott to be honored for engineering

By Northern Star Staff | April 28, 2014

Mechanical engineering major Joshua Ott will be honored in DiscoverE’s third annual 15 New Faces of Engineering College Edition.DiscoverE uses outreach, education, celebration and volunteerism to grow engineering interest among students, parents and...

Margie Multon, Dekalb election judge of ten years, assists senior family and child studies major Jesmine Goins in the voting process for this years presidential election. The voting took place at the St. Paul's Episcopal church on Normal Road on Nov. 6.

Early bird gets the election: Early voting on rise in County

By Erin Kolb | March 7, 2013

The number of early voters in DeKalb County is rising every year. John Acardo, DeKalb County clerk and recorder, said early voting, which is open for 40 days before Election Day, is beneficial to everyone involved. Acardo said there are many places to...

Members of NIU's Engineers Without Borders organization met for a fundraiser at Potbelly Sandwich Shop, 1013 W. Lincoln Highway, Tuesday night.

Engineers without Borders hosts fundraiser at local restaurant

By Robert Baird | November 27, 2012

NIU students and community members gathered Tuesday night to raise money to provide solar energy in Tanzania, and water filtration in Guanajuato, Mexico, the two main projects of NIU’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB) organization. From 5 to 8 p.m.,...

NIU Moto President Adam Bennett races his bike around a track. NIU Moto is a group open to all types of riders.

NIU Moto rolls into DeKalb

By Lauren Dielman | March 4, 2012

Student motorcycle riders can now their revv engines together at a new club for bikers. NIU Moto was recognized as an official group last semester around October 30, said Adam Bennett, sophomore mechanical engineering major and president of NIU Moto....

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...