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‘Iron Man’ inspires winning project at NIU Senior Design Day

The team’s wearable tech can help avoid injuries from repetitive and/or heavy lifting

December 20, 2017

In a surprise upset at the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology’s fall Senior Design Day, the structural harness for enhanced load lifting – or SHELL – project was awarded…

NIU Engineering Students Show off Ingenuity with Senior Design Projects

Better coffee makers, more efficient irrigation and “Iron Man” arms showcased in competition

December 19, 2017

The engineering building at Northern Illinois University was a hive of activity and innovation on the Friday before finals, as graduating seniors presented their capstone Senior Design Projects. Thirty-seven student…

Adversity couldn’t keep her from an engineering degree

Allana Rose overcame cancer and the loss of an eye while earning her degree in electrical engineering

December 18, 2017

Allana Rose knows how it feels when the odds are against you. What she doesn’t know is how to give up. In November, Rose’s quiet courage and perseverance were…

NIU eliminates out-of-state tuition premium

Affordable in-state tuition rate offered to all U.S. residents beginning in fall 2018

December 12, 2017

The Northern Illinois University (NIU) Board of Trustees unanimously voted Dec. 7 to extend the university’s domestic tuition rate structure to the NIU College of Law so that all U.S….

NIU Board Cuts Fees, Holds Line on Tuition, Room, Board

Tuition rates flat since 2015-16

December 12, 2017

DeKALB, Ill. — The Northern Illinois University Board of Trustees voted Thursday to lower fees and not to increase tuition for the 2018-19 academic year. “We realize that earning…

Professor champions efforts to recognize Mother Jones

Historical marker to be dedicated to labor leader along I-55 near Springfield

December 4, 2017

In the early 20th century, author Upton Sinclair called Mother Jones “the walking wrath of God.” Over the past decade, NIU history professor Rosemary Feurer has been determined to make…

‘Replace judgment with curiosity’

Educate Global travelers return to United States with eyes open to power of classroom diversity

December 4, 2017

After 14 hours in the air, there was obviously no need to tell Marcus Lewis that he wasn’t in DeKalb anymore. Yet his first steps off the plane into a…

Nearly 500 finger and toe bones belonged to tiny primates 45 million years ago

November 6, 2017

At Northern Illinois University, Dan Gebo opens a cabinet and pulls out a drawer full of thin plastic cases filled with clear gelatin capsules. Inside each numbered capsule is a…

Rachel Jacob named 2017-18 NIU Student Lincoln Laureate

‘Arguably the most accomplished Huskie in a generation’

November 1, 2017

Rachel Jacob, NIU’s newly minted Student Lincoln Laureate, is the type of student who sets high goals for herself. Then she wildly exceeds them. Case in point. When history professor…

Breaking the Silence

Suicide ‘survivors,’ counselors discuss uncomfortable subject, stigma

October 17, 2017

For Adam Carter, the moment came some 15 years ago in the preschool classroom where he taught. Three-year-old Malcolm would not – or perhaps could not – sleep during the…