Only a few days of spring break remain before Northeastern Illinois University resumes classes ... not that it was a quiet week around the University. From research partnerships to research papers to community service planning, check out the latest from around the University.
Around the Commons
Student-faculty partnerships
The College of Graduate Studies and Research, together with the Research and Creative Activities Advisory Group, will soon wrap up the Graduate Dean’s Research and Creative Activities Assistantships for the 2015-16 academic year and is taking applications for the next academic year. The deadline is April 15, and the awards will be announced April 29. Check out the amazing work from this year’s teams!
Cesar Chavez Day of Service
Northeastern will partner with community organizations and schools in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago to celebrate Cesar Chavez Day of Service through volunteer work on April 2. Students, staff and community members will work to clean up and beautify local gardens in tribute to the life and work of the American labor leader and civil rights activist. Registration is required by March 31.
A book about gifted adults
Professor Emeritus Ellen Fiedler has published a new book, “Bright Adults: Uniqueness and Belonging across the Lifespan.” The book explores unique challenges faced by bright and gifted adults throughout their life stages, beginning with age 18.
Linguistics in New York
Department of Linguistics faculty members Richard Hallett and Judith Kaplan Weinger and alumna Vanessa (Revaz) Jaroski (M.A. ’14 Linguistics) delivered presentations at the International Linguistic Association 61st Annual Conference on March 11-13 in Hempstead, N.Y. Hallett and Jaroski presented “I just don't think fine dining and Mexican go together: Linguistic othering in ‘Top Chef.’ ” Hallett and Kaplan-Weinger presented “Culinary linguistics meets culinary tourism: The case of New Orleans.”
Spring food drive
The Child Care Center’s Parent Advisory Committee, in partnership with the NEIU Student Pantry, is hosting the Spring-Clean Your Pantry Food Drive through March 28. Donations of non-perishable items and personal hygiene products may be dropped off during normal business hours at the Child Care Center through May 13. Donations also may be dropped off every Monday and Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the following locations:
- Advising Center (LWH 0027)
- Angelina Pedroso Center (B 159)
- Learning Support Center (4th floor of the Library)
- Project Success/Proyecto Pa'Lante Office (LWH 4029)
- Student Disability Services (D 140)
- Student Leadership Development Office (E 041B)
And there’s more!
- Assistant Professor of Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies Alison Dover and Tony Pozdol (B.A. ’15 Secondary Education-English) have published an article in English Journal titled “Teaching Good Kids in a m.A.A.d World: Using Hip-Hop to Reflect, Reframe, and Respond to Complex Realities.”
- Assistant Professor of History Joshua Salzmann and his co-author, Sarah F. Rose, have been recognized with the journal Labor’s Best Article Prize for Volumes 11 and 12 (calendar years 2014 and 2015, respectively) of “Bionic Ballplayers: Risk, Profit, and the Body as Commodity, 1964-2007.”
- Northeastern will host a Bridges to Employment event on March 30 to engage executives and senior managers from the public and private sectors with military veterans.
- The Green Fee Committee will host the Green Business Conference in Alumni Hall on March 31.
In the media
Refugee success story
In a story about Eli’s Cheesecake’s work with refugees, WBEZ’s “Worldview” interviewed Elias Kasongo, a refugee from Congo who earned his Bachelor of Arts in Business and Management from Northeastern in 2011. Kasongo started as a dishwasher in 1994 and now is a purchasing and materials manager with Eli’s. “If you meet any refugee and you understand their stories and you get to know them, you will love them,” he said.
Also in the media ...
- The (Edwardsville, Ill.) Intelligencer previewed Ensemble Español’s April 15 performance in Dance St. Louis.
- The Final Call quoted Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies Director Conrad Worrill in a story about the death of Henry L. English.
To do
Patricia Reid-Merritt lecture
National best-selling author Patricia Reid-Merritt will lecture and sign her book, “Righteous Self Determination: The Black Social Work Movement in America,” on April 1 at the Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies. Reid-Merritt is the Distinguished Professor of Social Work and Africana Studies (Program Coordinator) at the Richard Stockton College in Pomona, N.J.
Educational forum
The Educational Foundations Program will host its sixth annual Student Forum: Cultivating Critical Hope Through Acts of Solidarity with Communities on April 2. The forum will connect aspiring future teachers, counselors and principals with practicing teachers, counselors, schools leaders, community activists, organizations, administrators, scholars and students who are engaged in anti-oppressive, liberatory, humanizing and culturally relevant education. This forum will emphasize the integration of community and its resources into schools and the education of our youth.
Mark your calendar!
- Juried Student Art Exhibition, March 28-April 29, Fine Arts Gallery
- Tribute to Angelina Pedroso, 11:30 a.m. March 29, Pedroso Center
- The Intersection of Disability and Queer Identity, 1:40 p.m. March 29, Alumni Hall North
- Healthy Lifestyle Workshop, 2 p.m. March 29, Carruthers Center
- Latino and Latin American Studies Brown Bag, 3:05 p.m. March 29, Pedroso Center
- Silent Lunch, Noon March 30, Pedroso Center
- Junior Recitals, 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. March 30, Recital Hall
- Salary Negotiation Workshop, 6:10 p.m. March 30, El Centro Room 312
- “He Named Me Malala” screening, 7:05 p.m. March 30, Alumni Hall South
- “He Named Me Malala” screening, 3 p.m. March 31, Golden Eagles
- Healthy Lifestyle Workshop, 3 p.m. March 31, Pedroso Center
- Jazz Combos Concert, 3:05 p.m. March 31, Recital Hall
- Thursday Night Live: Dogs at Large, 10 p.m. March 31, Student Lounge
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