Category: Communiversity
Student Involvement & Leadership Development (SILD) is in search of project sites for its annual Rake Across DeKalb event. This event sends volunteers from the NIU community (students, faculty and staff) into the community to assist area residents and non-profit organizations with lawn clean-up in preparation for winter. Participation is free for both volunteers and...
NIU’s Center for Access-Ability Resources will host a nationally recognized display of the history of disability from Tuesday, Oct. 11, through Monday, Oct. 17, in the Gallery Lounge in the Holmes Student Center. The display was on campus April 14, 2011, and the feedback from those who viewed the display was so overwhelmingly positive that...
Dr. Janet Rowley, a highly awarded professor of hematology and oncology in the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago,will visit the NIU campus Thursday, Oct. 6, to give a seminar on her life and work. Rowley will speak at 3:30 p.m. in the Terwilliger Auditorium of Montgomery Hall. The event is free...
NIU’s Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities will sponsor a screening of “Tony: Lose All, Gain Everything” by Invisible Children. Invisible Children is a social, political, and global movement that uses the transformative power of story to change lives. The documentary tells a story about the hardships faced by children in the war in northern...
In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Women’s Resource Center is teaming with the Verizon Wireless HopeLine program, which turns used wireless phones into support for domestic violence survivors. The Women’s Resource Center is collecting no-longer-used wireless phones, batteries and accessories in any condition from any wireless service provider. Stop by any of the...
Northern Illinois University Women’s Studies and NGOLD (Center for NGO Leadership and Development) are sponsoring a teach-in on the current famine and humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa. The event, “Horn of Plenty? Famine: Man-made Natural Disaster in Africa,” will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, in Room 100 of...
Louis A. Pérez Jr., the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History and director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will visit campus Monday, Oct. 17. Pérez first will lead a 10 a.m. seminar on “National Character Reconsidered: The Cuban Case” in the Illinois...
Northern Illinois University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine today announced a new collaborative research and academic partnership with Northern Illinois Proton Treatment and Research Center designed to create innovative life saving protocols in the field of nuclear medicine and proton beam therapy as well as expand health care workforce training...
Rockford is one of 20 U.S. cities that have won a federal Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge grant. A grant totaling $2.4 million has been awarded to a collaborative made up of Northern Illinois University, Rock Valley College, the Rockford Area Economic Development Council and EIGERlab to accelerate job creation and innovation for small and...
NIU students, faculty and staff members have an opportunity to put their driving skills to the test from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, in the Convocation Center parking lot as part of the Ford Focus Test Drive’s Laser Hunt Challenge. The winner of this precision driving competition will earn bragging rights, but...
NIU’s College of Law has created a new and innovative program for its first-year students, “Introduction to the Legal Profession: History, Culture, and Values.” This program is being funded through the generosity of Cherilyn (’78) and Michael Murer, whose dedication to professionalism is infused throughout the series. Murer, president and CEO of the Murer Consultants,...
Coach Dave Doeren and the NIU Huskies football team (1-2) close out their 2011 non-conference schedule at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, versus the Cal Poly Mustangs. NIU returns home to Huskie Stadium looking to rebound after back-to-back losses at Kansas and versus No. 6 Wisconsin in its last two outings. Students are admitted free...
