Category: What's Going On
NIU’s College of Education will host “Transforming Learning Space with Low Cost High Impact Instructional Technology” – the 2016 Learn-IT Conference – Saturday, May 7, in the Learning Center of Gabel Hall. The conference will provide in-service teachers from the northern Illinois area P-12 school districts a day full of workshops and training activities to...
The Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra closes its 39th concert season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 7, with its spring concert, “The Majesty of Mahler,” in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. A free pre-concert lecture begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall. Led by Music Director and Conductor Linc Smelser, the...
Spoken word artist and activist Stephanie Camba will present “Home in Poems” at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. The event is sponsored by PLUSH (Promoting Leadership through Unconditional SisterHood) and the Asian American Center as a part of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. All are welcome....
NIU’s Gender & Sexuality Resource Center will host a free film screening of “Miss Representation” from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, April 29, in the Sky Room of the Holmes Student Center. The 2011 documentary, created by writer, director and producer Jennifer Siebel Newsom, exposes how mainstream media and culture contribute to the under-representation...
The NIU Faculty-Staff Golf League is forming for the summer. This for-fun league gives golfers the opportunity to get outdoors and improve their games in a congenial atmosphere. Men and women both, actively employed and retired, are invited to participate regardless of golfing level. It is a full-handicapped league; all scores are corrected for performance...
Northern Illinois University’s School of Art and Design presents “Arts and Recreation,” the Spring 2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts group exhibition of undergraduate senior-level artwork. Join students as they host opening celebrations beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at the Jack Olson Gallery in the Visual Arts Building and 7 p.m. at Gallery 215,...
The University Honors Program will host its first-ever Campus Crawl 5K run Saturday, April 30. All students, faculty and staff are welcome; space is limited. The race begins at 9 a.m. at the Campus Life Building. On-site registration is taken in the Honors Program office in Suite 110 of the Campus Life Building. (Online registration...
For 200 years, popular culture has used the phrase “met one’s Waterloo” to describe someone who has suffered an utter defeat or an insurmountable confrontation. The phrase was born when the armies of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington met on the battlefield near Waterloo, Belgium, in 1815, resulting in Napoleon’s defeat. NIU’s...
NIU’s Supportive Professional Staff Council will show its appreciation and support of students with words of encouragement and smiles to help them through their last few weeks of the spring semester. SPS members will hand out cookies and bags of chips from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, and Wednesday, April 20, in...
NIU’s first Earth Week is scheduled from Monday, April 18, through Saturday, April 23. Earth Week is a collaborative effort supported by more than 15 environmentally conscious organizations to bring a more sustainable culture to NIU. Organizations include: NIU Student Association Green Paws Environmental Alliance Illinois Lakes Management Association Committee for the Preservation of Wildlife...
NIU’s PI Academy series will wrap up from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, April 22, with a mock NIH review panel in Altgeld Hall 315. The panel will highlight the deliberations that take place during a review session and will be led by a team of NIU investigators who have experience as peer reviewers. Professors...
Student leaders of the OHANA! Peer Mentor Program will present “Taste of Asia” at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, in the Newman Catholic Student Center, 512 Normal Road. Taste of Asia will highlight the diversity among Asia though food, dance and music. Visit each student organization’s table to get a taste of Asian culture. As...
