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Category: Engagement
NIU College of Law students stand outside the doors of the Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic in downtown Rockford.
The NIU College of Law’s Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic has been changing lives for a decade, both for the clients it serves and the students who work there. The clinic marked its 10th anniversary by hosting an event Wednesday, Nov. 16, that included Mike Madigan, speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. Madigan was a protégé of...
As the last of STEMfest’s 4,000 participants trickled out of the Convocation Center Oct. 22, they were still buzzing with the day’s excitement. “The lasers are cool! The static electricity is cool!” one young girl chattered to her parents. She looked out over the festival floor’s hundreds of hands-on exhibits and threw out her arms...
Cherilyn G. Murer
The Northern Illinois University College of Law will conclude its professionalism series, “Introduction to the Legal Profession: History, Culture, and Values,” from 4 to 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the Regency Room of the Holmes Student Center. The event will feature alumna Cherilyn G. Murer (’78), president and CEO of Murer Consultants, Inc. and chair of the NIU...
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Nurses who live or work near Oakton Community College soon will be able to earn an NIU bachelor’s degree at Oakton Community College. NIU is expanding its regional credit programming by offering a bachelor of science degree in nursing at Oakton’s Des Plaines campus starting in summer 2012. “We are thrilled to work with Oakton...
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Student Involvement & Leadership Development strives to find the service opportunity that best fits students and their schedules. Students and their organizations with interest in learning more about the volunteer experience should contact SILD at (815) 753-1421 to arrange personal consultations about community service opportunities offered on- and off-campus. For more information, visit Campus Life...
NIU alumna Molly Clesen teaches a song to a 4-year-old visually impaired child in Bolivia.
On Molly Clesen’s last day of teaching, one of her students asked her for a token of remembrance. They had formed a special bond over the summer, and Clesen was touched that the child had asked. She found a bracelet with her name on it and described what it looked like to the young girl,...
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The Great Recession of 2008 lingers on, with daily reminders that our economy is a fragile entity which we ignore at our own peril. Yet the study of economics and the basic principles of financial literacy remain on the periphery of public education at all levels. For 60 years, NIU-housed organization Econ Illinois has worked...
It is one thing to sit in a classroom and learn about teaching, but it takes on a whole new meaning when you are actually able to be the teacher. A recent field experience at the Lorado Taft Field Campus is just one example of the many engaged learning experiences available to students in the...
Film producer Kate Robinson (center) will visit NIU for a free sneak preview of her new PBS documentary, “Saving Philanthropy.”
The NIU Center for NGO Leadership and Development (NGOLD) is preparing to welcome film producer Kate Robinson to campus for a free sneak preview of her new PBS documentary, “Saving Philanthropy.” The screening will be held from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, at the Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center, 231 N. Annie Glidden...
A demonstration of dragon's breath.
The Northern Illinois University Chemistry Club invites the public to its fall 2011 chem demo night at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, in Faraday Hall 143. With Halloween just around the corner, the NIU Chem Club will host a “spooktacular night” of chemical demonstrations. “The NIU Chem Club has put on their mad scientist hats...
James Cohen
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) of the U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $1.8 million grant to James Cohen, assistant professor in the Department of Literacy Education in the NIU College of Education. The grant provides funding for “Project DREAMS” (Development of Reading, ESL, eArly Childhood, Mathematics and Science), a five-year, professional...
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In science fiction, aliens don’t always look like little green men or the beehive-coiffed vixens Captain Kirk usually encounters in Star Trek. In Warren Ellis and Colleen Doran’s graphic novel “Orbiter” – the October selection for the STEMfest SF Teen Read – humans encounter life forms that truly are alien. Ten years after the demise...
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