Open sesame: NIU engineering students pilot voice-operated door lock
DeKalb, Ill. — It’s more of a magical phrase, but throw in a bit of electrical engineering and “open sesame” becomes the key to a successful student project in the…
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‘Jurassic’ effort: NIU engineering students work to re-create saber-toothed cat
Senior Design Day project aims to improve animal prosthetics, museum displays.
DeKalb, Ill. — They started with a 3-D prototype of a saber-toothed cat’s forelimb. One day, it could be the entire cat. Inspired by NIU biological sciences professor Virginia Naples,…
Winning Senior Design Day team impresses Yorkville-based textile company
Project could save Aurora Specialty Textiles Group about $100,000 a year.
DeKalb, Ill. — You could say a team of NIU’s graduating engineering students did their homework—and then some. Taking top honors in the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology’s Spring…
NIU students’ air-to-water drone could lessen costs of gathering aquatic data
DeKalb, Ill. — With its own catchy classical theme song borrowed from a Richard Wagner opera, an air-to-water drone created by a team of NIU students won first place in the…
NIU engineering students tackle real-world problems at Senior Design Day
DeKalb, Ill. — 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 39 team…
Fighting back against injustice
K-12 teachers to explore equity at Social Justice Summer Camp
Question: Can K-12 teachers without a deep understanding of social justice concerns effectively engage and enlighten their students on those topics? Joseph Flynn, James Cohen and Mike Manderino would say…
U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a decorated combat veteran, returns to NIU to address ROTC Class of 2017
U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an NIU alumna and decorated Black Hawk helicopter pilot, returned to campus today to address an audience gathered for the appointment of eight NIU ROTC…
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….
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…
Deaf get a cultural sync-up with hearing world
It might seem odd to put on a “music” performance to help bridge the gap between the Deaf and the hearing worlds, but that’s exactly what NIU’s Deaf Pride organization…
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