Students & Campus
DeKalb, IL – NIU’s Gretel Mercado, a doctoral student in physics, has won a prestigious graduate student research award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)....
DeKalb, IL – Electric vehicles (EVs) are quiet, clean and generally pretty awesome. But any EV owner who has taken a long trip and waited 30...
DeKalb, IL – The Rockford Promise at NIU program—launched in 2021 to create opportunities for hundreds of students from Rockford to earn degrees without paying tuition...
DeKalb, IL – NIU Chemistry Professor Tao Xu has a vision for a cooler, cleaner world: Give industry a financial incentive to capture its carbon...
DeKalb, IL – The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant of $270,000 over three years to Northern Illinois University Chemistry Professor Tao Li for...
Edible Campus gardens are expanding and beginning to provide valuable research data
DeKalb, IL – In 2023, NIU’s Edible Campus program broke ground on more than 100 raised beds throughout campus as well as the 5,000-square-foot Anderson...
