Tag: love
Northern Public Radio is hosting a Valentine’s Day Relationship Poetry Contest. Susan Porterfield, a published poet, editor and professor of English at Rockford University, is the judge. To enter this contest, submit a 10- to 20-line previously unpublished poem about the themes and emotions surrounding Valentine’s Day. When read aloud, the poem should be 30...
NIU psychology professor Lisa Finkelstein found love at a professional conference. You can, too, she says. She is not talking about romantic love, but the kind of love that emanates from shared positive experience. And you can find it almost anywhere. In a newly posted Psychology Today blog, Finkelstein discusses how this type of love,...
“We’re going back to the place where we fell in love with theatre,” said Ryan Massie, director of the first theater production of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance 2013-2014 Mainstage Series season. The season opening play is “Almost, Maine,” by Tony Award-nominated actor John Cariani. It opens Thursday, Oct. 17, and will be...
Ted Burgess and Brandie Lindo like to say they have “good chemistry” together – and for good reason. In January 2008, Burgess and Lindo first met at NIU in an organic chemistry laboratory class. Even beyond the lab experiments, strong attractive forces were apparently at work. This past spring semester, the couple returned to the...
NIU’s David Henningsen remembers being intrigued in graduate school by a study that found men often overestimate the romantic interest of women. “That struck me as being really sad, because I really didn’t think women were all that interested in me to begin with,” Henningsen laughs. It also led him to the idea that there...
Calling all self-identified “Twi- Heads.” NIU’s Women’s Resource Center at NIU will host “Twilight: Romance and Power,” a group discussion on the “Twilight” series of books and movies, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10. Participants will talk about the dynamics of relationship of Bella and Edward as well as the ways in which...
