Category: Events
Join the NIU Annuitants Association trip Wednesday, March 9, to the Chicago Flower & Garden Show on Navy Pier plus the Gethsemane Garden Center in Chicago.
NIU’s Presidential Commission on the Status of Minorities (PCSM) is accepting nominations for the Deacon Davis Diversity Award. This award recognizes current NIU undergraduate, graduate or professional students; faculty; Supportive Professional Staff or Civil Service Staff; and academic units, office, programs or organizations for significant contributions made to the improvement of the status of minorities on...
NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology had a busy week. In celebration of national Engineers Week, CEET organized a series of events that brought 200 middle and high school students from 10 schools in the northern Illinois region and included a trivia competition and banquet for CEET students. The halls of the Engineering Building were...
Northern Illinois University will celebrate Women’s History Month in March with a variety of events based on the theme of “Women’s Migration and Immigration.” The events, organized by the NIU Women’s Studies Program and many other sponsors, will examine the gendered nature of migration and immigration from various perspectives. “Migration and immigration are critical topics...
NIU’s Civic Leadership Academy will offer a seminar Thursday, March 10, on “Understanding Your Government’s Finances and Financial Position.”
Members of NIU’s College of Education family are enduring a difficult week as they mourn the passing of promising elementary education student Alexis “Lexi” Weber and longtime and valued staff member Paula McDowell. Paula Jo McDowell McDowell died Saturday, Feb. 19. She was employed at NIU for nearly 26 years, spending the last six years as an administrative...
The Eychaner Award, sponsored by the Presidential Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Prism, is presented annually to recognize individuals affiliated with NIU who have made outstanding contributions that enhance the lives of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender (LGBT).
NIU students are invited to submit essays to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trasngender Resource Center essay contest, held each year as part of the activities for LGBT Awareness Month in April.
The Outstanding Service Award is presented each year to up to four NIU Civil Service employees.
The Supportive Professional Staff Council Awards Committee is requesting nominations to recognize Supportive Professional Staff who go above and beyond.
Amitabh Pal is managing editor of The Progressive. His talk on "Non-Violence and Islam" will elaborate on the recent people's movements resulting in regime change in Egypt and Tunisia and how those nonviolent protests fit into the historical context of this Islamic tradition.
Members of the NIU Jazz Lab Band, directed by Rodrigo Villanueva, and the NIU University Jazz Band, under the direction of Ross Margitza, will perform their first joint concert of the 2011 spring semester at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 1.
