NIU’s Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic is offering selected audiology services through July. Patients may schedule curbside or drop-off hearing aid repairs at the clinic, 3100 Sycamore Road in DeKalb. Call 815-753-1481 for same-day, curbside. Drop-offs are accepted from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays
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Training speakers to connect more empathetically, whether they are physicians, other medical professionals, students or actors, is something Val Lantz-Gefroh has been training all her life for. Even if she didn’t know it at first. She will be in DeKalb, March 20
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NIU is hosting the Illinois Council on Family Relations (ILCFR) 2020 Conference: Breaking Barriers: Serving Immigrant Families, 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., April 3, at the Holmes Student Center Duke Ellington Ballroom. Human Development and Family Sciences students are encouraged to attend
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Thursday, March 5 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. NIU’s Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center, 231 N. Annie Glidden Rd., DeKalb, IL In an effort to help health care providers learn and be proactive with early detection and diagnosis of cognitive impairment/Alzheimer’s-related dementias,
Read moreThe NIU School of Nursing will host Felesia Bowen, a nationally recognized expert in pediatric asthma and health equity, who will discuss health care disparities in pediatric asthma and her community-based research. This luncheon lecture is noon to 1 p.m., Feb. 3,
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The NIU Autism Caregiver Group will be kicking off the school year with a cookout designed to help families meet and connect with other families of children with autism. The picnic is 3 to 5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 20, Welsh Park Picnic
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Northern Illinois University’s School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders is offering a free course, Critically Appraised Topics in Social Communication Disorders.* This 2-hour, 40-minute course uses 25 case studies to demonstrate how family values, clinical expertise and research evidence are intertwined.
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The NIU Fashion Merchandising program, along with the Fashion Industries Organization, are producing the annual Kohl’s Sponsored Fashion Show, 7:30 p.m., April 6, at the Duke Ellington Ballroom, Holmes Student Center. The show’s theme is Nine to Five Fashion.
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Everyone has the opportunity to participate in the Empty Bowls Project, a nationwide endeavor using ceramic arts to fight hunger. From 4:30 – 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 20, the NIU Dietetic Association and Bread for the World will sponsor the Empty Bowls
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NIU Career Services offers events throughout the year to connect students and employers. Here are some of the upcoming events: Feb. 12, 5-7 p.m. Career Fair Prep Workshop Regency Room, Holmes Student Center Feb. 19, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Spring Internship
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The NIU Student Dietetic Association and Bread for the World invite everyone to Empty Bowls, 4:30-6:30 p.m., March 29, Chandelier Room in Adams Hall. Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort to raise both money and awareness in the fight to end
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