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USOAR program funds 20 projects
 When Emily Nothnagel visited Zimbabwe last summer, she discovered two important things: teaching, which she liked, and the long-term remnants of conflict, which she did not.
The French major from Westmont, who just completed her freshman year at NIU, has returned to Africa this summer to study the effects of war in an effort to support peaceful resolutions to conflicts. She left last Wednesday.
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Partners sold on NIU sales program
 Already considered one of the best programs of its kind in the country, the Professional Sales Program continues to make improvements, lining up corporate sponsorships, publishing a journal and adding named professorships.
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Good Shepherd nurses nearly NIU graduates,
receive certificates toward bachelor's degrees
 Twelve nurses from Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital last week received certificates from Northern Illinois University to recognize their completion of the nursing component of a bachelor's of science degree.
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Fire damages College of Engineering building
Damage from the blaze was contained to one chamber of a first floor “clean room” where students and faculty work to create microelectronics parts. Preliminary indications are that the fire was caused by an electrical short. No official estimate of damages was available this morning.
“All safety systems – alarms, sprinklers and all other safety systems – functioned as they were supposed to,” said Promod Vohra, acting dean of the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology.
First word of the fire came at about 11:34 p.m. Saturday.
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Kudos
 Read good news about – and send congratulations to – Brian Pumilia and Brianno Coller.
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Friends of the NIU Libraries ice cream social and baseball talk
Come join the Friends of the NIU Libraries for an afternoon of ice cream and baseball on Thursday, June 2, in the Staff Lounge on the lower level of Founders Memorial Library.
The ice cream social will be from 4 to 4:30 p.m., followed by a Friends business meeting. At 5 p.m. Neil Shalin of Naperville will entertain us with highlights from his book, "Out by a Step: The 100 Best Players Not in the Baseball Hall of Fame."
Everyone is invited to attend. For more information, call 753-9394 or email cditzler@niu.edu. -- MORE
ITS blocks Sober.P virus
A new virus discovered earlier this month called Sober.P was proliferating rapidly. It was most commonly spread via .zip file attachments.
ITS reports that 397,000 bad extensions have been blocked by itsCan-Spam software. Due to a vigilant response taken by ITS e-mail and security experts, there have been no reports of infected machines at NIU.
ITS will continue to block the following suspicious file extensions until the threat is lifted completely: .zip, .pif, .scr, .exe, .com, .cpl, .bat, .cmd.
For updated information, watch the ITS Web site.
ITS to decommission GWIA in June
The original GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) is scheduled to be decommissioned on Wednesday, June 29. Any customer using the prefix "internet:" to send mail off campus will be affected.
ITS records indicate that approximately 200 customers may have this addressing format stored in their personal GroupWise Address Book. In May or June, ITS will contact anyone who appears to be sending messages through the old Internet agent. These customers will need to update their addresses to avoid service interruption.
For more information on the scheduled decommissioning of the GWIA, and how it may impact GroupWise users, please visit the ITS Web site, or contact the ITS Customer Support Center at 753-8100. -- MORE
ITS releases security report
ITS has released a Spring 2005 security report detailing current IT security issues. The report is available on the ITS Web site.
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