Students beware: 7 things you must know about social media
Social media can be a great way to share information and to stay informed about what’s going on in the lives of your friends and family. But there’s a dark…
Category: Arts, Music & Culture
Gerald Blazey tapped to lead NIU research and innovation
Tom Parisi, NIU Newsroom Following a national search for a new Vice President of the Division of Research and Innovation Partnerships, NIU has selected one of its own. President Doug…
Discovering new passions
Student research, artistry, community engagement will be on display at HSC
The amazing creativity and discoveries of NIU students will be in full bloom this spring during NIU’s eighth annual Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day. The event will take place from 9…
Showcase of student films
Latina alum working in film industry will be featured speaker at Reality Bytes festival
The NIU Department of Communication is preparing to raise the curtain on its popular Reality Bytes Independent Student Film Festival at the Jameson Auditorium, located inside the university’s Cole Hall….
NIU artists travel different paths to greatness
Students have works featured in prestigious show devoted to African-American art
A pair of art majors from Northern Illinois University are featured in the 2017 Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. The show is…
Marching to her own beat
NIU Student Lincoln Laureate juggles demanding music, biochemistry majors
If Rebecca Rasmussen, NIU’s newly named Student Lincoln Laureate, marches to her own beat, she certainly keeps a breathless pace. Consider Rasmussen’s rapid accumulation of awards, leadership experiences and remarkable…
Light up the night
NIU students in Time Arts learn, entertain with ‘projection mapping’
On a blustery night in May, more than 300 people showed up at the Sycamore Depot (now home to the DeKalb County Community Foundation) for a unique night of art…
Art and soul
NIU, DeKalb celebrate the arts at second annual ARTIgras
Grab your beads and forget your troubles: Saturday afternoon unleashed a feast of crazy hats, colorful masks, festive dancers, enormous floating soap bubbles, face painting, rock ’n’ roll music and…
Something from nothing
NIU theater professor imagines, writes new play for students to stage
Robert Schneider isn’t sure where – or if – lines are drawn between his lives as a playwright, a teacher and a human being. The creative writing process, it seems,…
Discovery zone
Amazing student research, artistry, community engagement on display at HSC
Student engagement in research, artistry and service is a hallmark of the NIU education. And nowhere will that be more evident than at NIU’s seventh annual Undergraduate Research and Artistry…
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