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    The Hard Way

    Huskies’ rough road leads to championship game in Detroit

    • December 3, 2015
    The NIU football team abides by a simple motto: The Hard Way. Few seasons in recent history have better exemplified those words than 2015. The Huskies had the top team...

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    How to rock your finals

    NIU faculty members offer sage advice on making the grade

    • December 1, 2015
    With final exams just around the corner, crunch time has arrived for NIU students. And while important tests can bring about stress, students might take some measure of comfort in...

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    Prairie state of mind

    For NIU students, Nachusa Grasslands is a 3,500-acre living laboratory

    • November 30, 2015
    World-renowned for its restoration strategies, the Nachusa Grasslands preserve near Dixon, Ill., just a 45-minute drive from the NIU campus, provides a rare and stunning reminder of what the “Prairie...

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    Sleepless in Shoppingland

    Who – besides retailers – is ready for some Black Friday?

    • November 23, 2015
    As the majority of the retail industry jockeys to see which will open the earliest Friday, or which will open Thanksgiving Day itself, one company is making headlines for its...

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Speak Your Mind

Lessons for America? Why Muslim-European youth are recruited into radical Islamism

  • November 23, 2015
by Kikue Hamayotsu The Paris attacks of Nov. 13 came as a shock to French citizens as well as many of us around the world. The terrorist attacks by European...

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Are you ready for some football?

NIU prepared to welcome state’s best high school football teams

  • November 19, 2015
Welcome to Northern Illinois University! Like you, we know a little bit about great football around here. Entering this season, the Huskies had the fourth-best winning percentage in the country...

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Talking turkey about early American Thanksgivings

  • November 19, 2015
Ah, Thanksgiving. It’s a celebration that always brings to mind family gatherings, friendly games of touch football and roasted turkey with all the fixings. There's also that fuzzy history involving...

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On top of the world

NIU finance major rocks the Bloomberg Aptitude Test

  • November 19, 2015
Imagine tying for best in the world on a business aptitude test offered to students from more than 3,500 participating universities. Then ask NIU finance major Franz Varga exactly how...

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The competitive edge

NIU, Rockford hail new partner in boosting manufacturing

  • November 12, 2015
Teresa Beach-Shelow knows exactly what she wants from the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute, the UI LABS collaboration that will launch its first-ever chapter in Rockford. Beach-Shelow is the...

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Inching toward democracy

NIU professor teaches about, has lived Myanmar’s struggles

  • November 11, 2015
Tharaphi Than is the proud mother of a baby girl, born just three days prior to the landmark elections Sunday (Nov. 8) in the NIU professor’s homeland of Myanmar. The...

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Direct from the source

NIU physical therapy students listen to stories from real patients

  • November 11, 2015
Editor’s note: The names of the patients have been changed. Bob worked as a cop for 42 years before he finally eased into a well-earned retirement. Yet something was wrong....

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Youth movement

NIU experts: With retirement wave looming, Illinois towns
should consider offering perks to lure young, skilled workers

  • November 4, 2015
Free land to skilled workers willing to relocate. Subsidized mortgage rates for newly minted college grads who forgo big-city life and return to their hometowns. Paid moving costs and tax...

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