Category: Events
NIU will host its fourth annual Bridal Expo from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 16, at the Holmes Student Center’s Duke Ellington Ballroom. The show features more than 40 exhibitors, a groom’s room and a professional fashion show at 2 p.m. Parking is available in the visitor’s parking lot, located just south and west of the student center on...
An informational meeting about study abroad opportunities in Ireland is scheduled for 4 to 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, in Watson Hall 323. NIU undergraduate and graduate credit is available in communication and English; undergraduate credit is available in history. Students can study at Dublin City University and examine Ireland’s role in international culture via...
NIU’s Alumni Association will host alumni and friends from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 9, at the University Club of Chicago. The club is located at 76 E. Monroe St. A plentiful appetizer buffet will be provided, and a cash bar will be available. Dickens carolers will stroll throughout the evening, filling the air with the music...
The Huskies have clinched the Western division and are headed for the MAC Championship. The championship game will take place Friday, Dec. 3, at Ford Field in Detroit, and could be the Huskies’ first championship win since 1983. NIU’s Alumni Association will be there to help NIU alumni and friends cheer on the Huskies by sponsoring...
Human Resource Services will host its annual blood drive from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 29. It will be held in Heartland Blood Center’s Mobile Coach. Average time for blood donation is 45 minutes. The blood drive will be conducted by the Heartland Blood Centers, a community blood center open 24 hours a day, seven...
The Friends of NIU Libraries and the NIU School of Music invite the public to attend a free New Music Ensemble concert and pre-concert lecture beginning at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 29, in the Music Building’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran of the University of Chicago, David M. Gordon of Wheaton College...
Walk With Women Against Violence will host a peaceful march Sunday, Nov. 21, to raise awareness of violence against women. All are welcome to gather at 1 p.m. in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commons for a walk through the NIU and DeKalb communities. For more information, e-mail walk_with_women@yahoo.com.
The NIU Philharmonic, under the direction of Lucia Matos, will perform its final concert of the semester at 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 22, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. On the program: Carl Nielsen’s “Aladdin Suite, FS 89,” Jean Sibelius’s “Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 105” and, with NIU violin faculty member Mathias Tacke,...
The Huskie Marching Band will present its annual year-end concert on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010 at the NIU Convocation Center. The Marching Band, Drum Line, Color Guard and Silverettes will be performing highlights from this year’s marching band shows. The Marching Band will also perform favorite songs and cheers heard at NIU football games throughout...
From “Kirstie Alley’s Big Life” to “The Biggest Loser” to “Dance Your Ass Off,” popular media seems obsessed with achieving a certain idealized body type. In the midst of this weight-obsessed culture, how does one build a positive body image? Is it possible to take ownership of a typically negative label such as “fat” and...
The NIU Chinese Music Ensemble will give a concert performance at 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20, in the Recital Hall of NIU’s Music Building. Established by Professor Emeritus Kuo-Huang Han in the 1970s, the NIU Chinese Music Ensemble was the first all-American college group in the United States and gave several national and international concert performances from...
It might take years to become a martial arts master, but it takes only 90 minutes to learn how to combat personal violence. NIU students, faculty and staff are invited to Founders Memorial Library at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, for a women-focused self-defense seminar. Lesley Rigg, associate professor of geography and a black belt in karate,...
