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The Health Professions House is collecting new, unused, toothbrushes for a special project that is part of an alternative spring break trip. School of nursing instructor JoEllen Ryan, along with 10 NIU students and two recent graduates, will travel to Chiapas, Mexico over spring break to provide free health assessments and treatment to the Mayan...
Pat Siebrasse
NIU’s Administrative Professionals Advisory Council is accepting nominations for the 2016 Patricia S. Siebrasse Administrative Professsionals Award for Excellence. The award recognizes the outstanding performance of an administrative professional at NIU who demonstrates continued commitment to their field, operational efficiency within their organization, and provides meaningful contributions to NIU. Those employed at NIU 15 consecutive...
Truth and Lies
Tony Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard ambitiously examines the blurry lines between authentic love and artifice in “The Real Thing,” which opens the second half of the 2015-2016 Mainstage Series season. Using a play within a play structure, Stoppard keeps his audience guessing as to which characters are supposed to be real, and which characters are...
Smart Classroom
NIU’s Committee on the Improvement of Undergraduate Education has extended the deadline for applications for the David W. Raymond Grant for Use of Technology in Teaching until Monday, Feb. 29. A member of the first Board of Trustees at NIU, Raymond established this award in 1998 to provide faculty with an incentive and some resources...
NIU graduate students
NIU’s Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center is seeking nominations for the 2016 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards. These awards acknowledge outstanding graduate teaching assistants for their contributions to the teaching mission of NIU. Each recipient of the award will be presented with a plaque and recognized at the Graduate Students Reception sponsored by the...
NIU students
NIU’s Presidential Commission on the Status of Women is accepting nominations for its 2016 student, faculty and staff awards. Nominations for the Outstanding Women Student Awards, created in 1980, are due Friday, Feb. 12. The annual awards encourage the full participation of women students in all facets of the university experience and in their communities;...
Kimberly A. Lawless
Kimberly A. Lawless, associate dean for research at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Education, will visit NIU at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, to speak on on “Developing a Scientifically Literate Citizenry Through Written Argumentation: The GlobalEd2 Project.” Her address, part of the PI Academy Mentor Speaker Series, will take place in...
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NIU’s English Department is hosting a workshop for graduate and undergraduate students interested in publishing as a career. The event, which is free and open to all in the university community, takes place from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 20, in Cole Hall 106. It will provide one answer to the question, “What can...
Alexis Lamb
Looking to become more independent in your research? Interested in conducting a service learning project? Want to get funding for a study abroad trip or travel to a conference? If you answered yes to any of the questions, then consider applying to either Undergraduate Special Opportunities in Artistry & Research (USOAR) or the Student Engagement...
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NIU’s Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures has announced its Spring 2016 Brown Bag Series. Attendees are invited to bring their lunches and listen to speakers covering a variety of research topics from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, February 11 Shannon Becker, assistant professor, French “Using Complexity Theory to Explain Language Development: Theoretical and Methodological...
Kinga Mauger
After 17 years as NIU’s bursar, Kinga Mauger has announced her retirement, effective Sunday, Jan. 31. NIU colleagues and friends are encouraged to call or email Mauger this week to congratulate her on her retirement and to wish her well in this next phase of life. In the interim, Ann Apple has been appointed acting...
Career Services, a department within the Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, seeks nominations of undergraduate students for the Applauding Excellence in Student Career Success Awards. Approximately 10 undergraduate students will be recognized for achievement in career preparation. All candidates must be nominated by a faculty or staff member, have a minimum 2.5 cumulative...
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