Category: Communiversity
A new season of STEM Saturday classes is under way to give young learners exciting experiences with science, technology, engineering and math. But kids aren’t the only ones having fun this fall. NIU STEM Outreach has added teen- and adult-friendly classes that will teach learners basic programming and electronics skills through fun, hands-on projects. This...
Harvard University’s Max Essex, one of the world’s leading researchers on HIV/AIDS, will visit NIU on Thursday, Oct. 1, to deliver the 12th annual installment of the W. Bruce Lincoln Endowed Lecture Series. Essex’s talk, titled “The Pandemic of HIV/AIDS: Fear and Denial Followed by Progress in Health and Human Rights,” will begin at 7:30 p.m....
Solomon Mason proved you’re never too old to go to summer camp. The senior mechanical engineering major joined fellow NIU students Dwayne Wilson, David Duncan, Nkem Ekhator, Sheriff Otun, Victor Aghadi and Stella Aghadi from July 5 to July 24 at The Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK) program held at Miles Davis Magnet Academy...
NIU’s fall 2015 career events offer students and job-seekers the chance to impress and network with potential employers. This fall features NIU’s annual Internship Fair, Full-time Job Fair, and Graduate and Professional School Fair. Thanks to NIU Career Services, help in preparing for the career events is available. A pair of workshops are planned to...
Interested in Graduate School? Sign up for NIU’s Graduate School Prep Seminar, which begins at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, in the Yordon Center. The seminar will cover information such as creating a profile, the application process, the GRE and other tests and finding the right graduate school. Students will have the privilege of receiving...
Northern Illinois University will present the fifth annual conference on “Bullying: How Schools Can Respond” from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, in DeKalb and Grayslake. The goal of this professional development conference is to inform and educate administrators, teachers, counselors, staff members and school board members about how they can respond to...
For much of her career at Northern Illinois University, LaVerne Gyant has adeptly juggled two very important roles; one a highly respected faculty member in the College of Education and the other as director of NIU’s Center for Black Studies. After 17 years in her leadership role at the center, Gyant has decided to take...
Art Express for children ages 4 to 12 begins Saturday, Sept. 19, and meets for six Saturdays. Children create art and crafts through a variety of media in a fun and exploratory atmosphere. Every semester, new lessons with a new theme are designed and taught with an expressive and multicultural approach to let children use...
In response to several national incidents and growing concerns about the treatment of individuals from marginalized communities, the Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Committee (formerly the Unity in Diversity Committee) will launch a campaign this year called “Use Your Voice.” A series of events will provide platforms for students to share their stories and...
Latin culture is imbued with passion and expressed through art, dance, music and literary contributions, and NIU is going to celebrate all of it with ongoing fun and inspiring events throughout the next month. NIU’s Latino Heritage Month provides a firsthand look at Latin culture and its influence on the United States and American society....
Cor Cantiamo, a touring chamber choir in residence at the NIU School of Music, was awarded a grant from the Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation Fund. The fund provides assistance to further music education, music appreciation and performance; Cor Cantiamo received the grant through the DeKalb County Community Foundation. “We are grateful to the Wurlitzer Foundation...
The Northern Illinois University School of Theatre and Dance opens its 2015-2016 Mainstage Series season Thursday, Sept. 24, with a theatrical production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee. Faculty member Kendra Holton will direct the 20th century dramatic comedy that many critics have hailed as containing the best dialogue written for the...
