All letters of nomination for the 2008 Presidential Teaching Professorships should be submitted to Earl Seaver, Vice Provost, Office of the Provost, Altgeld Hall 215, no later than Monday, Oct. 1.
Following receipt of a letter of nomination, the selection committee will invite each nominated faculty member to prepare materials in accordance with the published procedure. Only full professors with tenure and at least six years service at NIU are eligible for the award.
The Presidential Teaching Professorships were established in 1990 to recognize those outstanding teachers who have demonstrated over time that they:
The procedure calls for a rigorous and thorough portfolio review including contacting former students. The 2008 recipients will be announced next spring.
Have you been thinking about losing some weight? If so, NIU needs you.
The Employee Assistance Program will sponsor a Weight Watchers at Work group on campus in HSC Blackhawk West at noon Tuesdays if 15 people are willing to commit to participating in the program. Please consider improving your health, losing some weight and helping some NIU employees and yourself.
Contact Karen Smith at (815) 753-9191 for more information.
Rehearsals for the sixth season of the Greater Kishwaukee Area Concert Band will begin at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12. They are held in the Band Room of Huntley Middle School, located at the corner of South Seventh and Taylor streets in DeKalb, and conclude at 9 p.m.
The band is an all-volunteer group made up of anyone 18 and older who has played either a wind or percussion instrument in the past. No auditions are necessary, just an eagerness for fun, to meet new people and to grow musically. John Hansen, retired band director from Malta, is the director.
The first of the four concerts of the season will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall on NIU’s campus. Band members are grateful for Mildred and Joan Sulaver, the concert’s sponsors.
For more information, call Sue at (815) 899-4867 or John at (815) 825-2350.
The fall exhibition season at the Nehring Center Gallery opens with “Natural Selections: Artwork by Kimberly Mullarkey” from Friday, Sept. 14, through Sunday, Oct. 14. The public is invited to an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21.
Mullarkey’s work combines elements of scientific illustration, charcoal drawing and mixed media.
Displayed in conjunction with her pieces is a selection of Mullarkey’s personal natural science collection that both inspired and directed her works: She is a self-described collector of unusual things who believes the art of collecting and labeling is as important as the resulting artwork itself.
As the collection grows, she has started developing a 21st century Cabinet of Curiosities.
Mullarkey received her BFA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and obtained her MFA at NIU. She studied Northern Renaissance oil painting in Monflanquin, France, at the Atelier Néo Médicis. She now teaches botanical art and illustration at the Morton Arboretum, the College of DuPage and the Fine Line in St. Charles. She currently maintains a studio in DeKalb.
“Natural Selections” is free and open to the public during regular gallery hours from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday and from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. The Nehring Gallery also is open by appointment.
Located on the second floor of the historic First National Bank building on the corner of Lincoln Highway and Second Street in downtown DeKalb, the gallery is cooperatively operated by the DeKalb Park District and the NIU College of Visual and Performing Arts Division of Outreach. An entrance accessible to all is available at the 111 S. Second Street entrance.
The Women’s Resource Center has posted its 2007 Fall Events Calendar. Visit http://www.niu.edu/women/URW/WRC_calendar_fall2007_final.pdf for the latest information on support groups, speakers, services and other valuable resources offered by WRC.
All NIU women – students, faculty and staff – are invited to the Networking Luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, in the Chandelier Room, Adams Hall. Department of Geography associate professor Lesley Rigg and assistant professor David Goldblum will present “Living and Working Environmentally: One Family at a Time.”
The cost is $8 per person. Make a reservation by Tuesday, Sept. 18, by calling (815) 753-0320. For details, visit http://www.niu.edu/women/PCSW/network.shtml.
In conjunction with one of its current exhibitions, “Some Enchanted Evening: 100 Years of Evening Gowns (1900-1999),” the NIU Art Museum is hosting a Big Band Dance Night with dessert buffet and cash bar at the Altgeld Auditorium from 7 to 11 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20.
Swing dance lessons with Barb Heimendinger begin at 7:15 p.m. in the auditorium. The Grand Avenue Big Band will perform from 8 to 11 p.m. Dance lessons and a dessert bar are included in the ticket price. Formal or vintage attire is encouraged, but not required.
All of the NIU Art Museum’s galleries on the first floor, west end, will be open from 7 to 10 p.m. during the event.
The museum also is offering free foxtrot and cha cha dance lessons from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, to those who register in advance.
Advance ticket prices for members are $25 for a single or $45 for a couple. Non-members pay $36 for a single or $65 for a couple. Tickets also are available at the door during the event. Members pay $30 for a single or $50 for a couple; non-members pay $40 for a single or $70 for a couple.
Advance tickets can be purchased by credit card or check payable to NIU. To purchase advance tickets, call the museum at (815) 753-1936 or visit www.vpa.niu.edu/museum for a ticket order form. Print and return completed order form by mail or deliver to the museum with payment. The mailing address is NIU Art Museum, Altgeld 116, NIU, DeKalb, IL, 60115.
Free parking is available during this special event in the lot northeast of Gilbert and College Drives. Campus parking is available without a permit after 7 p.m. except for designated service and reserved spaces.