On Sunday, April 2nd, Autism Awareness Month begins with World Autism Awareness Day. The Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities will host an informational table at the Holmes Student Center on Monday, April 3rd from 11-1. They are also asking individuals in our community
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Get fired up! If you want to learn directly from social entrepreneurs about their experiences in the field and how the Triple Bottom Line (people, profits, planet) makes a real difference in life, then attend the Social Impact Summit from 8:30 a.m.
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The NIU School of Art and Design’s Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History Series presents “Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction,” a lecture by Dr. Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Professor of Film and Media Studies at
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The NIU Asian American Resource Center invites you to “Diversity Dialogues: Microaggressions and Intersectionality,” with guest speaker Kevin Nadal on April 4, 2017, at 5 p.m. in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium. Kevin Nadal is an author, comedian and professor of psychology. He
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NIU’s 2017 World Music Festival “Roots & Blossoms” is approaching. The NIU Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, directed by Omar al Musfi will kick off this year’s festival at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, in the NIU School of Music Recital Hall. Guest
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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites the NIU community to participate in an upcoming CLAS Research Forum event, “Climate Change and Environmental Crises in a Changing World.” The event is scheduled for Monday, April 3, 2017 from 4 to 6
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The NIU School of Music is pleased to announce a concert of music by NIU student & faculty composers on Monday, April 3, at 8 p.m. in the Music Building Recital Hall. The public is cordially invited, and admission is free. This
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The Graduate School invites faculty, staff and students to join in celebrating the outstanding accomplishments of NIU’s graduate students. A reception will be held at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 25, in the Altgeld Auditorium. Presentation of awards will begin at 3:30
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The Northern Illinois University Opera Theater will present Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte this weekend. The comedy takes place in late 18th century Naples, when two officers argue with an older friend, Don Alfonso, about the faithfulness of their girlfriends. Throughout
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The NIU Law Review Symposium entitled “Making Murderers: Legal Implications of Wrongful Convictions and the Death Penalty” will be held on Friday, March 31, from 8:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Altgeld Hall Room 315. Featured speaker Richard Schmack, former DeKalb County
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Take a journey into the underworld through the NIU School of Theatre and Dance production of “Eurydice,” a retelling of the Greek myth about Orpheus and his wife. According to director Stanton Davis, the story is “a legend that speaks to the
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The 2017 NIU Conference for Young Women: Preparing Women for College and Leadership will be held on Friday, April 28, at the Holmes Student Center on NIU’s DeKalb campus. Organized by the Center for the Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality, the
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