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Ask Shorr Packaging Chief Operating Officer and Northern Illinois University Accountancy alumnus Craig Funkhouser about his role in the economic development group Choose DuPage selecting NIU-Naperville as the home for the organization’s Rev3 Innovation Center, and he quickly cites the vision and work of president and CEO Greg Bedalov and the staff at NIU. According...
Jennifer Rosato Perea shared her thoughts on the importance of diversity and inclusion in her role as dean of the Northern Illinois University College of Law with Hispanic Executive Magazine in the publication’s most recent edition. One of just four Latina deans in the nation, Rosato Perea says she considers herself in a powerful position...
Northern Illinois University’s Division of Information Technology Services is breaking ground on a new project to make the Microsoft suite of collaboration and communications tools, known as Office 365 for Education, available to the NIU community. “Microsoft has put together a really compelling ecosystem that no other vendor comes close to matching,” said NIU Vice President...
Northern Illinois University Associate Vice-President and Director of Athletics Sean T. Frazier received the Distinguished Service Award from the Minority Opportunities Athletic Association (MOAA) earlier this month at the 2014 MOAA Symposium, which was held in concert with the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Convention in Orlando, Fla. The MOAA Distinguished Service...
In the wake of recent data breaches at Target, Michael’s, Neimann Marcus and eBay, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan visited the Northern Illinois University campus for a May 29 forum with community leaders to address fraud and identity theft. “This past year, we probably had about 20,000 consumer fraud reports, but that number represents only...
Northern Illinois University alumni, students, supporters, faculty and staff are invited to U.S. Cellular Field on Saturday, July 19, for NIU White Sox Night. The Chicago White Sox will host the Houston Astros, with the first pitch scheduled for 6:10 p.m. Help cheer on the White Sox to victory over the Astros and stick around...
If you walk into the archives of the Sycamore History Museum, you will see shelves and shelves of neatly organized and indexed files and boxes. Finding the materials you are looking for takes only seconds thanks to volunteer archivist and NIU graduate Robert Glover, who overhauled and modernized the museum’s archives while he was still...
NIU junior Linnea Scherer hopes to change the way women are portrayed in video games, and she already has developed an impressive game concept thanks to the McKearn Summer Fellows program she participated in last year. “The McKearn Fellows Program was amazing. It was what got me to this point,” says Scherer of Elburn, a...
Emily Perkins, a third-year student in the NIU College of Law, was selected as one of the winners of The National Law Review’s Winter 2014 Law Student Writing Competition. Her article is titled “Regulating Appearance in the Workplace: An Employer’s Guide to Avoid Employment Discrimination Lawsuits.” The National Law Review’s online edition was created to...
Northern Illinois University President Doug Baker announced Monday evening the establishment of the Southeast Asia Youth Leadership Program (SEAYLP) Fellowship, a program that will provide tuition waivers to students who have participated or will be participating in the U.S. Department of State program administered by NIU since 2009. The fellowship will be offered to SEAYLP...
