Published on Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Briefs for Tuesday, March 4

By NORTHERN STAR STAFF

CAMPUS LEADERSHIP AWARDS
Eleven different awards will be given out by the Department of Student Involvement & Leadership Development to promote leadership.

All applications for nominations are due Friday. Winners will be formally announced at an awards ceremony in late April.

Awards include:
- Freshman Leadership Award
- Sophomore Leadership Award
- Junior Leadership Award
- Senior Leadership Award
- Graduate Student Leadership Award
- Outstanding Student Organization Award
- Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award
- NIU Parents Association Endowed Scholarship
- Institutional Tuition Waiver
- Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities Award
- Donald R. Buckner Award

Nomination forms, including award criteria, are available at http://www.niu.edu/studentinvolvement/leadership/awards.shtml.


SUPPORT NIU CERAMICS

A ceramics demonstration will take place at 11:45 a.m. today.

Two NIU ceramics students, Fu-Chi Shih and Kevin Foy, will present their creations in Still Hall, Room 103. The event is free, but space is limited.

It is expected to last no longer than a half–hour.

The NIU Art Museum is sponsoring the event. For more information, call 815-753-1936.

LIBRARY DEAN FINALISTS

Two more 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 10:00 a.m. Wednesday. Carole Kiehl of the University of California-Irvine will speak at 10:00 a.m. Thursday in Campus Life Building, Room 100. The other two finalists were on campus in February.

ONE-LINERS

* The NIU College of Law will host two of the three dean finalists this week. William Bock will be on campus today and Wednesday, 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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