![Andrea Evans poses outside the Carruthers Center.](/sites/default/files/hub.neiu.edu/voices-images/2018/05/01/DrEvans_318-0084_2-LoRes.jpg)
![Northeastern student Byron Terry reads a book while wearing a blue Northeastern Illinois University T-shirt.](/sites/default/files/voices-images/2018/12/12/students_helping_students890X370.jpg)
When Byron Terry earned a Class Gift Scholarship, the award came as a tremendous relief. The $450 scholarship helped to pay for books, supplies and fees.
![Economics Professor Emeritus Edward Stuart speaks at the front of a classroom.](/sites/default/files/hub.neiu.edu/voices-images/2017/08/10/AA-james-kenny-fall16_8141.jpg)
When Angie Craft married in 2006, she became stepmom to an autistic boy named James.
![Alex is seated next to Nick Pissios](/sites/default/files/hub.neiu.edu/voices-images/2017/06/19/Alex%20and%20Nick%20Pissios%20interview%20at%20Cinespace_m5803.jpg)
Six years after Cinespace Chicago F
![Anthony Smith in a laboratory setting smiling and holding a glass bottle and dropper](/sites/default/files/voices-images/2018/12/07/Bio.jpg)
Anthony Smith is focused on cancer research, not exactly the career goal you might expect from a man who earned his associate degree in Automotive Technology.
![Accounting student Anna Davydova sitting at a table and turning the pages of a book](/sites/default/files/hub.neiu.edu/voices-images/2017/06/01/AA-anna-davydova-summer17_7221_0.jpg)
Anna Davydova isn’t worried about setting career goals—at least not yet.
![Daniel L. Goodwin College of Education Dean Sandra Beyda-Lorie](/sites/default/files/hub.neiu.edu/voices-images/2017/05/22/AA-sandra-beyda.jpg)
If you visit Northeastern Illinois University on almost any Wednesday evening, you’ll find a happ
![Becca Peterson holds two books in the library.](/sites/default/files/hub.neiu.edu/voices-images/2017/05/16/AA-becca-peterson-spring17_6574.jpg)
When Becca Peterson arrived at Northeastern Illinois University in 2014, the transition to colleg