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Thomas Earl Wheat, a former professor of literacy education and the fifth director of the NIU Literacy Clinic, died Friday, Feb. 8, in Venice, Fla. He was 76. Wheat earned his Bachelor of Science in education in 1966 at the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne, Ind., and his Master of Education from the...
A lounging Weddell seal, wandering Adelie penguin, stark white landscapes, the Transantarctic Mountains and lots of scientists in action. All of that and more can be found on this micro-blog created by NIU Board of Trustees Professor Reed Scherer in geology. Scherer just recently returned from a historic research expedition in the Antarctic. He was...
The third annual NIU Green Lens Environmental Film Festival has announced a call for judges. Applications will be accepted through Monday, March 11. The festival, which runs from Saturday, April 20, through Thursday, April 25, is intended to encourage community interest and involvement in environmental sustainable living. Professional and student filmmakers have been invited to...
Donna Werderich
NIU’s Donna Werderich fell in love with reading and writing at an early age. “I have always enjoyed reading and writing,” said Werderich, a professor of Literacy Education, “how authors can craft words to persuade, entertain, inform and touch the heart, and how we make sense of the world through words.” The Illinois Reading Council...
The NIU College of Business ethics program (BELIEF), in collaboration with John Deere, is hosting a video creation contest for business ethics awareness. Interested NIU students, regardless of major, need to prepare a real or animated video that introduces a business ethical dilemma and solves that dilemma using the BELIEF decision-making framework as described by...
Tomis Kapitan
When one considers what the practice of philosophy involves, one thing that springs to mind is its employment of the Socratic method of instruction, so brilliantly illustrated in Plato’s dialogues. Many people have a rudimentary notion that this method is intended to enhance understanding through dialogue. A more complete description recognizes that the Socratic method...
Serena Harnack
An award-winning, 14-year-old violinist will perform with the CSA Sinfonia at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20. Concerto Competition winner Serena Harnack will play the fourth movement of the Concerto No. 4 in d minor, Opus 41, by Viuextemps. The performance takes place in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. Harnack won...
Lynn Lidbury
People who work in careers that require emotional investment, such as nurses, counselors and educators, often cite compassion fatigue and subsequent burnout for leaving their jobs. Those who succeed are those who set proper boundaries around work, taking time to relax and paying careful attention to their personal lives and outside interests. These practices, known...
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Orientation & First-Year Experience and the NIU chapter of Lambda Sigma Sophomore Honor Society have teamed up this semester to offer second-year students an opportunity to give back to the campus and community. Through “Sophomore Days of Service,” Lambda Sigma members will join with second-year students from other organizations, such as Alpha Phi Omega service...
Ivonne Uquillas
NIU’s Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management is preparing for PACT Awareness Week, scheduled from Monday, Feb. 25, through Sunday, March 3. As part of the preparations, the PACT committee conducted interviews with a staff member and student about what this year’s theme, “Disciplined,” means to them as members of NIU’s campus. Jill Zambito,...
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With an endowment campaign driven by College of Business alumnus Lance Smith (ACCY ’84), the Ernst & Young Leadership and Professional Development Center in Barsema Hall prepares accountancy students to be effective leaders and communicators. “Our department does a wonderful job of educating students on the technical aspects of accounting,” says Jim Young, chair of the...
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week begins Sunday, Feb. 24, and continues through Saturday, March 2. NIU will recognize the week through a series of events sponsored by the Counseling & Student Development Center, Health Enhancement, the Women’s Resource Center, Campus Recreation and the School of Family, Consumer and Nutrition Sciences. All-week events Wear PURPLE all...
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