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Affirmative Action and Equity Compliance will offer a workshop Thursday, June 16, on search procedure training. This two-hour interactive workshop is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. in Room 100 of the Campus Life Building. Seating is limited. Presenters will cover strategies and best practices for recruiting a diverse qualified applicant pool. Participants, meanwhile, will...

Ready for a great, healthy and active summer? NIU’s Employee Assistance Program will host brown bag luncheon presentations in the month of June in the Holmes Student Center. Advance registration is preferred, but not required, by emailing: employeeassistance@niu.edu or calling (815) 753-9191. The starting at 12:05 p.m. summer presentations begin Wednesday, June 8, with “Deciding...

Some levels of the parking deck will close for maintenance and cleaning from Monday, June 6, through Friday, June 10. Levels will open as work is completed. During this time, any valid blue or yellow permit holder will be able to park in any legal parking space on all open levels, with the exception of...

Imagine getting lost in your own home or neighborhood. Imagine feeling disoriented, unsure of where you are or how you got there. For individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s and other neurological disorders or trauma – and more Americans than ever are diagnosed with these conditions each year – this “spatial disorientation” can be a daily occurrence and...

NIU’s Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning will host the fourth annual Summer Research Symposium from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, in Altgeld Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Any undergraduate student who has participated in faculty-mentored research or artistry over the course of the 2015-16 academic...

NIU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences External Programming is spreading the word on two cool Academic Summer Day Camp options for students entering sixth- through eighth-grades. Applications can be filled out online; a $25 discount is available to NIU employees. For more information, call (815) 753-5200 or email LASEP@niu.edu. Creative Writing Day Camp July...

NIU Law alumnus Vincent Cornelius (’89), the incoming president of the Illinois State Bar Association, will deliver the commencement address during the Northern Illinois University College of Law Commencement Exercises, beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 28, at the Carl Sandburg Auditorium of the Holmes Student Center. During the ceremony, NIU Law will confer 88...

An ongoing two-year initiative has focused new attention on the need to better address rigor and reproducibility in research. This heightened awareness of problems identified in the quality (rigor) with which some published studies have been completed as well as the lack of transparency in reporting the details of completed studies led to extensive discussion...

Orientation & Family Connections, part of the Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, will share an overview of campus-wide orientation programs for incoming students during a preview event at 2 p.m. Monday, June 6. All traditionally admitted freshmen and transfer students must attend orientation programs prior to registering for fall 2016 classes. New freshmen...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This initiative has been postponed. Watch NIU Today for further information.

“You Want to Donate What? Gifts in Kind and Other Types of Gifts” is the topic of the Thursday, May 26, installment of the Alumni & Foundation Forum. Participants will learn what defines a donation and how donations are processed. This presentation also will cover how to handle unusual donations, such as gifts-in-kind, donations of...

Northern Public Radio is seeking submissions from visual artists in our listening area to be featured in the 2017 WNIJ/WNIU wall calendar. Regional visual artists working in any medium are invited to enter one original work for consideration. This is the second year for the calendar, which presents a different artist each month. WNIJ/WNIU developed...