Weekly Round Up for ENVS
Students
This brief newsletter is
intended to give the reader a glimpse of campus happenings and opportunities.
Huskie Service Scholars
Apply
now for the 2012-2013 academic year!
Applications
due April 27th.
Huskie
Service Scholars is a program that offers tuition waivers to students for
community service. This program pairs
upper-classmen with first-generation or low income students entering NIU for
the first time. Upon completion of 300
hours of service, students will receive a tuition waiver of $1,132.
ü Talk to Melissa Burlingame if you
are interested in serving as Peer Mentor for the Environmental Studies team
(mburlingame@niu.edu).
ENVS Candidate Talks
ü Sustainable Engineering and Energy
o April 12, 1p, Wirtz 104
o April 16, 1p, Wirtz 104
Earth Appreciation Month
ü Mono Lake Story & A River Runs Through Us
Thursday, April 12th, 7:30p, Cole Hall Auditorium
ü Complete list of activities found on the ESE website at: http://www.niu.edu/ese/events/earthappreciation_2012.shtml
Artifact Identification Day
Saturday April 14 from 11am
until 2pm
The Anthropology Museum at
Cole Hall, NIU
Have you ever walked a piece
of land, looked down and found a projectile point or an arrow head? Have your grandparents or parents given you a
stone axe from their land and told you it was made by Native Americans? Are you curious to know what these things
are? If so, come to The Anthropology
Museum on Saturday April 14 from 11am until 2pm where Sara Pfannkuche, Interim
Director of the museum and local archaeologist, will help you to identify your
artifacts. Learn how you can do your own
research on these items. Sara might not
be able to identify every object, but she will be able to point you in the
right direction…
In addition to helping you
identify your artifacts, Sara will bring out archaeological “tools of the
trade” so people can better understand what archaeologists do.
This will be the last day for
the exhibit Touch the Sky, a tribute
to the breathtaking vistas and iconic creatures of the American prairie by
world-renowned nature photographer Jim Brandenburg. Coloring sheets related to the museum’s Touch the Sky exhibit will be available
for kids of all ages. Come on out and see the exhibit before it leaves the
museum!
For More Information:
Museum Facebook Page: Anthropology Museum of NIU
Phone: (815) 753-2520
STEM Outreach Camp Counselors Needed
Attached is the STEM
Camp staff application. You may submit the application without reference
letters as long as you have arranged for them to be sent to me either
electronically, or though the mail. If
coming by email, they should come from an official email address, not gmail or
hotmail.
You can check out the
camp topics and schedules for the camps I will be staffing on http://niu.edu/stem/camps/summercamps.shtml.
We need instructors who work primarily day-time and counselors who are
responsible for evening activities and dorm supervision as well as assisting
instructors. Previous experience working
in camps or other informal education experience a plus, but not required. Applications will be considered as we receive
them, so it is to your advantage to submit it as soon as possible.
Most summers
counselor/instructors are responsible for some advance planning of activities
and then assisting with activities planned by others. We work with students to use your talents as
best we can and also give you lots of growth opportunities.
Meetings
ü Environmental Studies Club
o Monday, April 16th, 7pm, Wirtz 220
Dr. Jason Hanna will
talk about Environmental Ethics
Political Science Classes
For your information, ENVS Faculty Associate
Professor Brendon Swedlow will be teaching two courses that are part
of the ENVS major emphasis areas in Fall 2012:
·
POLS 411 Constitutional Law II Liberty, Privacy,
and Equality in Constitutional Law MW 3:30-4:45
·
For video descriptions of these and select other
courses being offered by the political science department in fall 2012, please
visit this link:
·
If you have any questions, please ask Professor
Swedlow bswedlow@niu.edu. If you have friends who might be interested in these courses,
please feel free to forward this message to them.
