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Days after the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education’s Sri Lankan visitors left the NIU campus in late April, their hosts already were planning to book flights to Asia for August. That trip began Sunday – and now includes four

Mark Pietrowski Jr., DeKalb County board chair and director of NIU Continuing and Professional Education recently was selected as one of 40 emerging leaders in the state of Illinois to take part in the seventh class of the University of

“I’m a First-Gen College Student” will bring together first-generation students, faculty, staff and recent alumni with Welcome Events from 4 to 6 p.m. Sept. 4 and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 5 at Founders Memorial Library. To help

Days after the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education’s Sri Lankan visitors left the NIU campus in late April, their hosts already were planning to book flights to Asia for August. That trip began Sunday – and now includes four

Sally Blake’s plans for the NIU Department of Curriculum and Instruction are bold. “I want NIU to be the best teacher-training program in the country,” says Blake, who began work July 16 as chair of the department in the College

Bringing books to life – transporting an author’s words and worlds from typewritten pages into physical spaces – marvelously rouses the passion for reading within young readers. Just imagine your excitement if you learned that Tad Lincoln had lost his

The NIU School of Nursing helped support the DeKalb School District’s Welcome Back Bash event recently by sharing information and letting students spend some time with Juno, a human simulator. Kristen Selig, director of NIU’s simulation and nursing labs helped

NIU Assistant Professor Priyanka Ghosh Roy along with Theresa Stretch of the Institute of Child Nutrition of the University of Mississippi, have updated The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics position paper on federally funded youth nutrition assistance programs.  According to the paper “Child and

The Huskie Spotlight is fixed on medical laboratory sciences student Rachel Gathman of Genoa. Discover why she chose NIU and MLS, what her favorite campus spots are, and who her favorite professor is in this Q&A. The post Meet MLS

Professor Michael Oswalt’s article, The Right to Improvise in Low-Wage Work, 38 Cardozo L. Rev. 959 (2017), was recently reviewed in the legal scholarship blog The post Professor Oswalt’s Article Reviewed in JOTWELL appeared first on College of Law.

Northern Illinois University law students will have another opportunity to gain valuable real-world experience when they represent prisoners in federal court beginning this fall. On The post NIU Law to Launch Prisoners’ Rights Program appeared first on College of Law.

On June 22, Professor Morse Tan participated in a Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast to discuss the June 12 Trump-Kim summit. Professor Tan joined host Craig The post Professor Tan Discusses Trump-Kim Summit appeared first on College of Law.

It was all about affordability and making a difference for NIU’s graduating engineering students as they proved themselves during Spring 2018 Senior Design Day. The The post Spring 2018 Senior Design Day appeared first on College of Engineering and Engineering

Northern Illinois University is set to expand its engineering degree pathways by offering a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering (BME). The Illinois Board The post NIU to offer bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering appeared first on College of

Alex Hurtado When Alex Hurtado came to Northern Illinois University, she had never heard of industrial and systems engineering. At the urging of her cousin, The post What is Industrial and Systems Engineering? appeared first on College of Engineering and

At the outset of my first year as dean of the College of Business, we established five themes that were to serve as strategic priorities The post Making Progress: a message from Dean Rajagopalan appeared first on College of Business.

Newly approved and fully online Master of Science in Data Analytics NIU’s newly-created Master of Science in Data Analytics (MSDA), approved in early August 2018 The post Big data, big news: NIU data analytics program offered 100% online appeared first

See some of the ways that NIU Business students, alumni, and friends have crossed boundaries. Read their stories in the spring 2018 issue of NIU The post Cross boundaries: see learning and business differently at NIU Business appeared first on