What's cooking at Ellington's?
LGBT Resource Center hosts
LGBT History Month events
CLA hosts Oct. 9 workshop
on land use, development
University Women's Club
to hold annual fall open house
Kishwaukee Concert Band
to perform Oct. 19 concert
Networking fair to highlight
diverse suppliers, services
International Programs seeks
nominations for 2008 awards
NPR plans fall membership drive
Conference will introduce
young women to careers
Peters calls for focus on student success,In his first annual address since the Feb. 14 tragedy, NIU President John Peters told students, faculty and staff the university is moving forward with a renewed sense of purpose and unity, guided by its strategic plan and a focus on student success.
NIU receives grants for security, mental health NIU has received grants totaling nearly $1 million from the U.S. Department of Education to enhance emergency preparedness on campus and to expand mental health services.
Gebo, Worobec,Anthropologist Dan Gebo, Historian Christine Worobec and Chemist Narayan Hosmane have been named as the inaugural recipients of the NIU Board of Trustees Professorships.
NIU, DeKalb School District 428 expand partnershipNIU and DeKalb Community Unit School District 428 will collaborate to create a professional development school at the new DeKalb High School.
NIU students become globetrottersResearch on global warming took two NIU students nearly to the ends of the earth this past summer, with one traveling to South America and the other to the Arctic Circle.
Campus Child Care Center celebrates 30 yearsThirty years after the NIU Campus Child Care Center opened to make higher education more accessible to parents of young children, the center continues to remove obstacles to college.
Haunted Physics Lab has creepy partner, new name and more exhibitsEvery Halloween season, hundreds of young people flock to Northern Illinois University for the annual Haunted Physics Laboratory. This year’s event promises to be bigger and spookier than ever – and it might just make your hair stand on end, quite literally.
Rebuilding the ‘White City’UCLA architectural historian will give
virtual tour of 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition
Nearly a century ago, some of the world’s top architects transformed a portion of Chicago’s South Side into a gleaming “White City” for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition. Most of the architectural wonders are long gone, but UCLA’s Lisa Snyder can still take you on a stunning tour.