March’s STEM Cafe Event, For Your Eyes Only, will feature James Dillon, an NIU expert on eyes. Dillon is the director of NIU’s Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Studies. The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. on March 26 at Eduardo’s Restaurant,...

Women Inspiring Innovation through Imagination: Celebrating Women in STEM: Science, Math, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics will be presented by the NIU Women’s Resource Center from 6 to 7 p.m. on March 26 in the Stevenson Multipurpose Room. The...

NIU’s next Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Café will host Joel Knapper, NASA solar system ambassador. Knapper will present “The Future for American Manned Spaceflight.” The presentation will discuss plans to get Americans back...

Want to be a male nurse? Or a female engineer? At NIU, in 2010, female health professionals outnumbered their male counterparts about four to one. Male engineers outnumber females about nine to one. But gender disparities are more than numbers; culture...

DeKALB | STEM outreach blasted off Wednesday night with the first of its space events series, "Bon Voyage to the Space Shuttle."The presentation was led by Observatory Manager Matt Wiesner. The series was created to raise awareness of U.S. space shuttle...