Spring graduate colloquiums changed

Due to the recent tragedy on NIU’s campus, many of the upcoming Spring 2008 Graduate Colloquium Speaker events have had to be rescheduled, canceled or had changes of time, location or other details.

The listing as provided in the recently mailed Graduate Student Newsletter is no longer correct. Please check directly with the sponsoring departments for Colloquium events prior to attendance to verify the correct information.

Some updates will also be provided via the Colloquium and Newsletter Web site, www.grad.niu.edu/colloquium/index.shtml, but the departments will have the most up-to-date information.

Library Dean Finalists speak at public forums

Two library dean finalists will be on campus this week in two public forums. Edward Owusu-Ansah, from Kingsborough Community College of The City University of New York, will be in Altgeld Hall, Room 315, beginning at 10 a.m. today.

Carole Kiehl of the University of California-Irvine will speak at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Campus Life Building, Room 100. The other two finalists were on campus in February.

One Liners

• The deadline to apply for NIU journalism scholarships has been extended to Wednesday, March 19. The application form is available at http://www.comm.niu.edu/fileadmin/application.pdf. You must be either a journalism major or minor.

• Faculty Senate will meet at 3 p.m. today in the Holmes Student Center, Sky Room.

• The NIU College of Law will host two of the three dean finalists this week. William Bock will be on campus today and Karen Mathis will be on campus Thursday and Friday to talk with students, faculty and staff from the college.

• NIU’s Regional History Center/University Archives is looking for any documentation regarding the Feb. 14 tragedy from students, staff or faculty. Submissions can include e-mails, correspondence, poems, official documents, class projects, photographs and videos. For more information, call 815-753-1779.

• Loyola University’s Rachel Shefner will present “Action Research” Thursday in Montgomery Hall, Room 443. The event is sponsored by the NIU Department of Biological Sciences.

• Nominations for the fourth annual Ally Awards, presented by the LGBT Resource Center, are due Friday.

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