Marine Biology Field Research Program – Enrollment Closes March 31 (Limited Spots Remaining)

 Unlike traditional classroom-based programs, students spend their days on the water working directly with marine animals, learning how to safely catch, measure, tag, and release sharks and rays while collecting real scientific data used in ongoing research.

This experience provides students with the kind of hands-on field skills and practical experience that graduate schools, research programs, and marine science employers value highly.

Program Highlights

• Work directly with sharks and rays in their natural habitat

• Learn professional marine field research techniques

• Gain hands-on experience collecting and recording scientific data

• Work alongside experienced marine researchers and instructors

• Ideal for students interested in marine biology, conservation, and wildlife research careers

Important Enrollment Update

Enrollment for Summer 2026 closes March 31, and several weeks are already nearing capacity.

Current availability is limited for the following weeks:

• Week 4 – limited spots remaining

• Week 5 – limited spots remaining

• Week 6 – limited spots remaining

• Week 8 – limited spots remaining

Students interested in participating are encouraged to apply soon before the remaining spots are filled.

Program Information

Students can learn more or request information here:

www.coastalmera.com

Elizabeth Resnick and Anne Berry, Wednesday, March 4, 11 AM, Wirtz Hall, 103A

 

Women Graphic Designers: New Research

 

Wednesday, March 4

11:00 am - 12:15 pm

AB 110

 

Elizabeth Resnick, Professor Emerita and former Chairperson, Graphic Design Department, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston and Anne Berry, Professor and Director of the School of Design, University of Illinois Chicago, College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts will share examples of their recent publications, featuring the historical work of designers, including Jacqueline Casey, Lora Lamm, Bonnie MacLean, Sylvia Harris, Michele Washington, and Folayemi Wilson, among others.

 

Women Graphic Designers: Rebalancing the Canon is a book of compelling illustrated stories examining the resilient and determined lives of 44 women graphic designers — from Europe, Asia, North America, South America, South Africa, and Australia — who worked professionally from the twentieth through the early twenty-first century. Written by a stellar cohort of international design academics, practitioners, and design historians, each of the 42 stories weaves the disparate threads from a hidden history of women in graphic design through rigorous research, unpublished and published first and second-person encounters, and interviews, with the subjects, family members, or close associates. Each story unfolds through a chronological order of biographical and autobiographical events, revealing the invisible and making it visible.

 

One of the relatively few black design practitioners who came to prominence in the 1990s, designer, strategist, and educator Sylvia Harris is remembered for both her career achievements—co-founding the public information design firm Two Twelve and serving as creative director for the 2000 U.S. Census among them—and opening doors for newer generations of black and brown designers. Driven by a commitment to improve the lives of others, she was the embodiment of a true citizen designer.

 

Elizabeth Resnick, ed., Women Graphic Designers: Rebalancing the Canon (Bloomsbury, 2025).

 

Anne H. Berry, Kareem Collie, Penina Acayo Laker, Lesley-Ann Noel, Jennifer Rittner, and Kelly Walters, eds., The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection (Allworth Press, 2022).

 

Supported by the Elizabeth Allen Visiting Lectures in Art History Series

School of Art and Design, Northern Illinois University

Free and open to the public. Contact: rhouze@niu.edu

Science, Education, & Leadership Expeditions for Positive Change

 

• Internship Expedition - provides free marine science and sailing programs to local children that are experiencing disadvantages and is open to all genders and majors. Interns, many of whom are college students, volunteer their time, and the position meets internship and service learning requirements.  There are four week and two week options. Here is a flyer that can be shared with students.

 

• Women's Leadership Expedition - an immersive, experiential program that is centered around leadership education and stewardship with a focus on providing women the knowledge to become the optimal version of themselves as a conscious leader. Here is a flyer that can be shared with students. 

Land-Grab Universities

 In 2020 a western U.S.  environmental publication, High Country News, published an in-depth study by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone of how the Morrill Act of 1962, which established land-grant universities in the U.S., was funded by states selling land expropriated from tribal nations.  The authors gathered extensive data on how these land-grant universities have benefitted, and many continue to benefit, from the sale and ownership of these lands.  

 

Tristan Ahtone  was interviewed yesterday on ”The 21^st  Show,” on NIU’s NPR station, WNIJ.  A YouTube recording of the interview is at the link below.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGI0Rw9ae7U

 

He will be speaking at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana on Feb. 19.

 

https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/events/event.php?ID=2683

 

The article is in the attached pdf of the January, 2020, issue of the publication. The link below is to an html version of that article.

 

https://www.hcn.org/issues/52-4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities/