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Category: Faculty & Staff
Image of silhouetted youth in front of a row of lockers
The NIU College of Law will host “Youth Justice: Young and in Trouble” from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, March 1, in the Francis X. Riley Courtroom of Swen Parson Hall. This symposium will address the issues of youth justice against the backdrop of the U.S. Supreme Court J.D.B. v. North Carolina (2011) decision...
Carlos Granados
A retirement reception is planned from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, for Carlos Granados. Granados, director of the Office of Publications, is retiring after 30 years of service to NIU. He also is an NIU alum, earning his bachelor’s degree in visual communications in 1980. The reception will take place in the University...
Don Kluemper
Researchers have tapped into what could become a new, and better, tool for human resource professionals trying to predict the success of job candidates. It’s called Facebook. Don Kluemper, a professor of management at Northern Illinois University’s College of Business, and a team of researchers, found that impressions gleaned from a five- to 10-minute perusal...
Genevieve Smelser
The CSA Sinfonia will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. The concert is free and open to the public, and the auditorium is accessible to all. Performing at Wednesday’s concert is concerto competition winner Genevieve Smelser, who will play the “Concerto for Violin”...
Somonauk artist Anna Kennedy and her daughter, Sophie, show the painted violin created for Performathon.
The NIU Music Building will resound with music and excitement Saturday, March 10, as the NIU Community School of the Arts presents its 10th Performathon. All funds raised are used for arts scholarships for young people in the community. Featuring around 75 musicians of all ages, the Performathon is the community school’s major fundraising event....
Department of English instructor Stephanie Kummerer discusses assessment tools at the 2010 expo.
NIU’s fifth annual Assessment Expo is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to noon Friday, March 2, in the Holmes Student Center Sky Room. The Assessment Expo is designed to highlight successful assessment practices on campus. “This expo will be a celebration of the successes of NIU Assessment Services,” said Carolinda Douglass, assistant vice provost for Academic Outcomes and Assessment....
NIU President John Peters leads a discussion with students in his UNIV 101 class during the fall semester of 2009.
Interested in helping first-year students learn how to succeed at NIU? Apply to become a UNIV 101/201 instructor for fall 2012. UNIV 101 is a one-credit, 12-week course focused on helping first-year students develop the essential academic and social skills needed to make an enjoyable and successful transition to NIU. UNIV 201 is a similar...
Katelyn Kozinski
The NIU Philharmonic, under the direction of Lucia Matos, will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, in the Music Building’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. Winners of the School of Music Concerto Competition will be featured. Program highlights include: Soprano Moonja Jeong singing “E strano! … Sempre libera” from LaTraviata; Violinist Katelyn Kozinski playing the...
David Wade
David Wade, a professor in the College of Business’ Department of Management, is completing his third year of service as the Faculty and SPS Personnel Advisor and is ineligible for another term. At its April 25 meeting, the Faculty Senate will elect a new FSPSPA for a two-year term to begin July 1. The FSPSPA...
Brian Torosian
The NIU School of Music will welcome guest guitarist Brian Torosian to campus Sunday, Feb. 26, for a 5 p.m. performance in the Recital Hall. Torosian, an active soloist and chamber musician on guitar, lute and mandolin, is best known for his work with 19th century guitarist and composer J. K. Mertz. Concert performances include...
Illinois Congressman Mike Quigley (D-Chicago), who sits on the House Judiciary Committee-Subcommittee on the Constitution, heard NIU Law professor Amy Widman’s testimony.
Amy Widman, an assistant professor in the NIU College of Law, testified Feb. 2 before the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee – Subcommittee on the Constitution in Washington, D.C. Widman was asked to testify in support of her recently published article, “State Attorneys General’s Use of Concurrent Public Enforcement Authority in Federal Consumer...
Photo of a mountain in Great Britain
The summit of fictitious mountain F6, known by locals as “The Haunted Mountain,” beckons a group of ambitious British citizens in the latest production by NIU’s School of Theatre and Dance. Beginning Thursday, Feb. 23, the school will present the staged production of “The Ascent of F6,” written by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. The...
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