Hope you are staying safe and healthy. Our next virtual STEM Café is scheduled for April 15. You can find the recorded STEM Café from April 1 on our NIU STEAM website. https://www.niu.edu/niusteam/programs/stem-cafes.shtml
Our café for April 15, 2020, Wednesday, is Stressed and Depressed? You’re Not Alone, 6:00 PM online via Adobe Connect(We are moving the start time earlier by a half hour since peak internet time is now 7:30 rather than 9:00 PM. The move will help prevent people from being dropped from the internet).
How can we manage the stress and isolation of sheltering in place?
How do we cope with the challenges of working remotely and the anxiety of job uncertainty?
How do we manage household relationships when resources, including technology and space, are limited?
If you’re anxious about finances, working from home, managing the kids or coping with isolation, you’re not alone.
At the next online NIU STEM Café, learn coping strategies and find avenues to get help for yourself or family members with mental health experts from Northern Illinois University.
Hear from:
Suzanne Degges-White, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Counseling and Higher Education;
Sarah Klaper, JD, University Ombudsperson;
Brian Smith, MSW, LCSW, Director of the Employee Assistance Program
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To access the online meeting, go to https://niuonline. adobeconnect.com/niu between 5:30 and 6 p.m. on April 15. The presentation will begin promptly at 6 p.m. and will last approximately 2 hours. On a computer, the Chrome browser works best, and you will be asked to download the Adobe Connect app. For tablets and mobile phones, go to your app store and download the Adobe Connect mobile app before attending. You will be able to listen to the speakers and will have a chance to type in your questions.
Northern Illinois University STEM Cafés are sponsored by NIU STEAM and are designed to increase public awareness of the critical role that STEM fields play in our everyday lives.
Our April 29, virtual STEM Café will be The Science behind the Virus. Our speaker will be molecular microbiologist, Pallavi Singh, Ph.D., NIU Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at NIU.
