NIU Athletic Board seeks
opinions of faculty, staff
Retirement reception scheduled
for Graduate School's Mitchell
Application deadline approaches
for faculty travel fellowships
Art Museum sponsors
'Get-on-the-Bus' trips
Faculty Development to honor
three outstanding graduate TAs
Operating Staff seeks nominees
for Outstanding Service Awards
NIU Athletics announces
faculty/staff night at Convo
CLA workshop will help
leaders appreciate personnel
Ally program to sponsor
spring training workshops
Monique Bernoudy to speak
at women's networking luncheon
NIU Foundation invites
Venture Grants applications
Julia Oster, College of Education
NIU gets $1 million NSF grantOver the next five years, NIU will take about 45 middle and high school science teachers on geologic field trips to Mexico, aiming to bring back culturally relevant and exciting lessons for Hispanic students.
Science magazine’s top breakthroughsThe work of a team of scientists that included NIU physicist Michel van Veenendaal is cited by Science magazine as being among the top 10 scientific research breakthroughs of 2007.
Japanese artist brings glimpse“I watched the cherry blossoms falling, and I thought, ‘I wonder if they’ll bloom again next year.’ ” – artist’s statement, Ayomi Yoshida
Volunteers sit, stand and kneel throughout the Rotunda Gallery of NIU’s Art Museum, carefully pushing tiny squares of razor-thin paper onto sage-green walls.
Tennessee Williams play to receiveChicago seems an unlikely place for Tennessee Williams to call home, but a noted scholar of his work maintains that the playwright’s career essentially began and ended there.
Grainger gift supports new facility management program Grainger, a leading supplier of facility maintenance products based in Lake Forest, Ill., last week contributed $15,000 to NIU to assist in the creation of professional development opportunities for facility managers across the region.