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(Left to right) Co-Director of PROMISE Denise R. Hayman, PROMISE coordinator Tracy Ash and PROMISE coordinator Christopher Mitchell put up a poster that is put up every year for the STEM conference, which aims to help engineering students broaden their awareness of STEM applications, expand their cultural view and become more familiar with the university.

STEM event boosts job awareness

By Kelley Byrne | February 13, 2014

Students will have the chance to network with STEM faculty, campus administrators, corporations and graduate schools at the STEM conference.The conference, Advancing STEM Education: Priming the Pump, will feature speakers from IBM, Motorola and Alcatel-Lucent,...

Gavin Weaver | Northern Star Betty Corns Math 110 students take
notes in Montgomery Auditorium Wednesday afternoon.

NIU gets $2 million grant

By Drew Veskauf | September 14, 2011

For the next five years, NIU will be the recipient of a $2 million grant provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The initiative is planned to expand studies within the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) majors and to support...

So much music this way comes

By Tony Martin | November 9, 2010

It seems like every year, someone from this newspaper writes an impassioned plea for students to stay in DeKalb for the weekend. Well, since that has already been done this semester, let's just call this a counterpoint to going back to your parents house...