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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...

De Mujer a Mujer: Latina Assistance Program will host a “Girl Talk” from 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, at the Latino Center. Tashena Briggs, residence hall director and Canon Fellow for the Latino Resource Center, has developed the program for female students of color on NIU’s campus. All are welcome. Girl Talk is...

De Mujer a Mujer: Latina Assistance Program will host its fifth annual Women’s Empowerment Conference from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 2, in Room 100 of the Campus Life Building. The annual conference hopes to inspire young women of color, specifically Latina students in college or high school, to progress in their education...

Several events are planned in March in celebration of National Women’s History Month. All events are open to the public and, unless otherwise noted. are free. Sign language interpreters will be provided upon request; call (815) 753-6515 (one week’s notice is preferred). For more information, call the Center for the Study of Women, Gender &...

NIU is adopting a definition of “affirmative consent” that requires anyone attempting to initiate a sexual encounter to ask for – and receive – a clear and voluntary “yes” before beginning. Its implementation prohibits sexual activity that does not involve the affirmative consent of each individual. Moreover, NIU’s definition holds that consenters can withdraw their...

In her new book, NIU professor Amanda Littauer tells the history of young women who stood at the center of major cultural change and helped transform a society bound by conservative sexual morality into one more open to individualism, plurality and pleasure in modern sexual life. Littauer will deliver a talk on the book –...

Everyone is talking about this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover, which some are saying pushes the limits of good taste. The chatter is nothing new, says NIU’s Kristen Myers, a Presidential Teaching Professor in the Department of Sociology and director of Women’s Studies at NIU. What is new, Myers says, is that the cover model’s...

Scholars from NIU, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Southwestern University collaborate on ground-breaking research study The power of three plus three in a research study has come to fruition as scholars from three different universities in the United States and three different colleges at NIU co-authored a study titled “Borders, Bras, and Battles:...

Pettee Guerrero is the embodiment of a STEM Diva. An educator with NIU STEM Outreach in the Center for P-20 Engagement, Guerrero lives for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). She has an infectious enthusiasm for both STEM learning and NIU that is on full display in her high-energy demonstrations. She can be seen on...

De Mujer a Mujer: Latina Assistance Program, part of the Latino Resource Center, will host the “Empowering the World One Woman at a Time” conference from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 29. The conference, which takes place in the Regency Room of the Holmes Student Center, is aimed at providing young women of color...

Questions of political psychology and gender were probed Aug. 27 and 28 during a research workshop at NIU-Naperville. Rebecca Hannagan, a professor in the NIU Department of Political Science, and Grace Deason, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, organized scholars from the fields of political science and psychology who study the...

“If we’re going to out-innovate and out-educate the rest of the world, we’ve got to open doors for everyone. We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering and math.” — First Lady Michelle Obama It has become crucial for the students...