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Engineers to collect shoes Wednesday

By Northern Star Staff | October 5, 2014

Engineers Without Borders will collect shoe donations 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday in the Martin Luther King Jr. Commons for children in need.The group will donate the shoes to Soles 4 Souls, an organization that distributes shoes to children across the...

Holiday Shopping Showdown

By Troy Doetch & Cody Laplante | December 9, 2012

When, in our last Perspective meeting of the fall semester, fellow columnist Cody Laplante pitched his column idea—that an inexpensive, thoughtful Christmas gift is always better than a thoughtless, yet expensive one—I was overwhelmed with the intensity...

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.,...