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U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a decorated combat veteran, returns to NIU to address ROTC Class of 2017

  • May 12, 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…

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Students parlay Southeast Asian Studies into scholarships, travel, leg up in job market

  • May 10, 2016
More than a dozen students studying the languages of Southeast Asia at NIU have big-time reason to celebrate this spring. The students have been awarded Foreign Language and Area Studies…

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American dream

Parents of NIU Student Lincoln Laureate Kiranjit Gill emigrated
from India to U.S. for opportunity—and their daughter found it

  • October 20, 2015
In 1998, when Kiranjit Gill was just 4 years old, her parents left their homeland of Punjab, India, and traveled to the United States, settling in Palatine, Illinois. They wanted…

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