In Brief

HHS and Alpha Eta celebrate Allied Health Professions Week

An open house to mark the celebration of Allied Health Professions Week will be held from noon to 3 p.m. today in the Gilbert Hall lobby. The College of Health and Human Sciences and Alpha Eta are the hosts.

Allied health professionals work to support and facilitate the roles of physicians and other health care specialists. Sixty percent of all health care workers are classified as allied health professionals, and they represent more than 80 different health professions.

Allied health professionals are employed everywhere in health care, in both public and private sectors, including hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, laboratories, mental health facilities, public health services, private medical practices and pharmaceutical companies.

Refreshments will be served.

More information is available at http://www.chhs.niu.edu/HHS_Dispatch/10-09-02/default.asp#WEEK

Deaf Awareness Week activities planned

Nov. 4 through Nov. 8 is Deaf Awareness Week.

Sponsors are the Department of Communicative Disorders, DeafPRIDE, Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment, Department of Literacy Education-Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Northern Illinois Deaf Education Association, Illinois Deaf and Hard of Hearing Commission, Illinois Teachers of Hard of Hearing/Deaf Individuals, Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities, Program for Hearing Impaired and Unity in Diversity Steering Committee.

Several activities are planned:

Monday, Nov. 4
PAH! It's Finally Here!
Capitol Room, Holmes Student Center, 7 p.m.
Make a communication connection through innovation and the latest technological invention available in the deaf community. Bill Stricklen from Illinois Sprint will present information about the video relay service (VRS), the latest communication accessibility tool available. Come see what it is and how communication is the key.

Tuesday, Nov. 5
Deaf and the City
Room 103A, Wirtz Hall, 7 p.m.
Experience an evening immersed in a cyber-town run by "connected" members of the Deaf Tech Community: learn different strategies of communication and use technology the deaf community uses for daily activities of living. Find out what the key is for communication with your deaf neighbors.

Wednesday, Nov. 6
Integrating Technology into the Classroom
Room 101, Wirtz Hall, 7 p.m.
Interact with technology and learn at the same time. Tris Ottolino, Ed.D., will present information about how using technology can enhance the learning process for students in the classroom. An interactive demonstration will prove that learning can be fun.

Thursday, Nov. 7
CyberSign Sync
Carl Sandburg Auditorium, Holmes Student Center, 9 p.m.
Sit back and appreciate the "hi-tech" song interpretations via sign language performed by NIU students, faculty, staff and Program for the Hearing Impaired students and staff.

Friday, Nov. 8
Hear This!: Turning a deaf ear to negativity
Carl Sandburg Auditorium, Holmes Student Center, 7 p.m.
Watch America's first female deaf comedienne, Kathy Buckley, as she speaks of her determination and willingness to laugh at herself in the face of adversity. The video presentation will be shown with closed captioning.

Sign Language/Voice interpreters provided. To request other accommodations, please contact the Center for Access-Ability Resources at (815) 753-1694 V/TTY. All events are free and open to all.

For more information, call (815) 753-6527 V/TTY or (815) 753-1694 V/TTY; E-mail mcormier@niu.edu or jmontag@niu.edu, or log onto www.niu.edu.

Community School for the Arts offers classes

Two art classes began Saturday in the NIU Community School of the Arts.

• Story Art is a great beginning art class for young artists ages 3 to 6. Each class starts with a story and is followed by an art project that relates to the story. Classes meet on six Saturday mornings and begin at 10 a.m. for 3-year-olds and at 10:45 a.m. for ages 4 to 6. Story Art is taught by DeKalb High School art teacher Christine Woywod, and is sponsored by the NIU Community School of the Arts.
• Shading is a drawing class for adults (ages 13 and older) who would like to concentrate on the fine art of shading to improve and refine their still life drawing technique. Taught by Victoria Peel, the class is part of a drawing series that is offered this year by the NIU Community School of the Arts. Upcoming classes in the series are Color (beginning in January) and Perspective (beginning in March). Shading meets from 9:30-11:30 a.m. in Still Hall Room 01 for four weeks.

Community School of the Arts presents recitals

The music from "Schindler's List" and Vivaldi's "Winter" are the highlights of a CSA Sinfonia concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6, in the Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. Conducted by Linc Smelser, the youth symphony is a regional orchestra with more than 50 members. Admission is free.

At 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, the NIU Community School of the Arts showcases some of the talented teachers in the program in a benefit recital to raise money for the scholarship programs. On the program is clarinet professor Gregory Barrett performing Ravel, along with Kasia Bielak-Hoops (cello), Anny Hsu (piano), Meeghan Dooley (flute), Georgia Price (piano), Emric Montano (guitar), Miguel DePablo (violin) and Steve Lundin and Andy Bliss (percussion). The program is in the Recital Hall. The cost is $12 for families, $5 for adults, and $3 for children 12 and younger and seniors 65 and older.

Friends of NIU Libraries host program

The Friends of NIU Libraries invite the public to attend the second program of the 2002-2003 academic year at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, in Room 400 of Founders Memorial Library.

The November program will be an open house for the Regional History Center, Rare Books and Special Collections. To get to Room 400, take the elevator to the fourth floor, turn left and go to the south end of the building. Free parking might be available after 7 p.m. in the visitor's lot just west of the library.

The staff of the Regional History Center, Rare Books and Special Collections will offer tours of their offices, including a chance to see the new $4 million storage facility in the basement of Founders Memorial Library. This is an opportunity to see the rare treasures of the library from palm leaf books to Native American prints and from incunabula to Civil War diaries, and the one chance to investigate places not open to the public.

Annual children's literature conference planned

NIU announces the 23rd annual Children's Literature Conference, scheduled for March 14 and 15 in the Holmes Student Center. The theme for this year's conference is "Poetry Power."

Featured speakers will include Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Myers, Nancy Willard, Juan Felipe Herrera, Janet Wong, Joanne Ryder, Francisco Alarcon and Wendell Minor.

Graduate course credit and Illinois CPDUs are available through NIU upon completion.

Contact NIU's College of Education Office of External Programs at 753-6954 or 753-3005 or by e-mail at jklock@niu.edu or jcrotchett@niu.edu for registration information. Watch http://www.cedu.niu.edu/litconf/ for more information.

NIU, Northern Illinois Reading Council offer summer reading conference

The Northern Illinois Reading Council and NIU will again offer a summer reading conference. "From Content Area Reading to Writing and More!" will be offered June 9 to 12 at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove.

Featured speakers will include NIU's Pamela J. Farris; Rita Bean, University of Pittsburgh; Cathy Collins Block, Texas Christian University; Carol J. Fulher, Iowa State University; Maria Walther, Indian Prairie School District, and Louise Stearns, Southern Illinois University.

Graduate course credit and Illinois CPDUs are available through NIU upon completion.

Registration information will be available after February. Contact NIU's College of Education Office of External Programs at 753-6954 or 753-3005 or by e-mail at jklock@niu.edu or jcrotchett@niu.edu.