IN BRIEF

Jazz Ensemble to perform
afternoon concert Feb. 5

Application deadline approaches
for faculty travel fellowships

Geology posts dates
for spring colloquia

Trip scheduled Friday
to Yerkes Observatory

Artists to speak at Olson Gallery

NIU offers ACT prep

Community School sponsors
high school Jazz Combo Day

Graduate student travel award
changes nomination criteria

Alumni Association plans
trips to Peru, South Africa

Children's Choir schedules
first spring rehearsal Feb. 4

Geography posts dates
for spring colloquia

NIU's FIT program to host
'Biggest Loser' competition

Ally Program registration
opens for spring workshops

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Northern Today - February 2, 2009

Honors Program encourages
‘Huskie Acts of Kindness’

NIU Honors Program students are encouraging acts of kindness as the university approaches the one-year memorial of the campus shooting.

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Unique master’s specialization
launched to raise effectiveness
of middle school math teachers

The way Jim Sheridan sees it, the middle school years might just represent the “last best chance” for some students.

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Management course connects
students with mentors via e-mail

The average e-mail in-box is crammed full of chain letters, fraudulent offers of foreign money and ads for discount pharmaceuticals. But a class of NIU management students got something far more useful last semester: mentoring.

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Students awarded grants
to present their research

Lisa McFadden, a doctoral candidate in the psychology department’s neuroscience and behavior program, and Suhong Yu, a doctoral student in physics, are the first beneficiaries of the new Howard Johnston Award for Graduate Student Travel at NIU.

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Feb. 14, 2009: ‘NIU Remembers – A Day of Reflection’

A series of public events Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009, will commemorate the anniversary of last year’s tragic shooting on the NIU campus.

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