Women Graphic Designers: New Research
Due to potential bad weather on Friday, we have moved the lecture online only.
Robert Brinkmann; Chit Wityi Oo
Who: Biological Anthropologist Dr. Kate Clancy from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
When: Wednesday 21 January from 12:30-1:30
Where: Founders Memorial Library Staff Lounge, which is on the ground floor next to Einstein's Bagels.
As always, Women in STEM events are open to everyone and are intended as a forum to provide inspiration and connection for all people working across fields where women are often underrepresented. Lunch will be served. This is an honors engaged eligible event.
I look forward to seeing many of you there and appreciate you helping to spread the word!
The Women in STEM Lecture Series is excited to host Dr. Yamuna Krishnan for our next event on Wednesday, November 12, from 12:30-1:30 PM in the Founders Memorial Library Staff Lounge which is on the ground floor next to Einstein's Bagels.
Professor Krishnan is currently the Louis Block Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. Her research intersects Chemistry, Biophysics, and Chemical Biology; and her talk is titled “Next-gen targeting has organelle-level specificity”.
As always, Women in STEM events are open to everyone and are intended as a forum to provide inspiration and connection for all people working in fields where women are often underrepresented.
RSVP here is optional but is encouraged.
Students attending can get Honors Engaged credit for this event.
As always, lunch will be served.
Unpacking War Ecologies in the Korean DMZ
Prof. Eleana Kim (UC-Irvine)
Tuesday, Oct 14, 5–6pm (reception to follow)
Cole 100
Link to NIU calendar event
In this talk, anthropologist Eleana Kim (University of California, Irvine) discusses her fieldwork in the Korean Demilitarized Zone, which has often been referred to as the “most heavily militarized border in the world.” The unresolved war between the two Koreas has been ongoing since the formal end of the Korean War in 1953. For more than 70 years, the zone has been a de facto protected area, off limits to human habitation, and is now celebrated as a site of rare biodiversity. This talk complicates the conventional narrative about the DMZ that frequently frames its nature as an unexpected outcome of war and discusses what we can learn from a closer look at its actually existing ecologies and the people who study them. Rather than the symbolic narrative of an accidental sanctuary, Kim shows instead the importance of recognizing its “nature" as materially and ecologically vulnerable to the effects of militarization, capitalism, and climate change.
Eleana Kim is a sociocultural anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at University of California, Irvine. She specializes in kinship, human/nonhuman ecologies, migration, and the senses, with a regional focus on contemporary South Korea. She is the author of two award-winning books, Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoption and the Politics of Belonging (2010) and Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the Korean DMZ (2022), both of which were published by Duke University Press. She is also the co-editor, with environmental historians David Fedman and Albert Park, of Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments (Cornell University Press, 2023). She teaches courses on anthropological theory, kinship, migration, transnational Korea, and the senses.
Bao-Son Trinh Senior Lecturer,
Head of Environmental Toxicology Laboratory, Institute for Environment and Resources, Vietnam National University
“Microplastics in Saigon-Dongnai Rivers and Potential Impacts on Aquatic Organisms”
Thursday, March 27, 7:30 pm. Online only. Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy
The Rebuilding Democracy Lecture Series will kick off Sept. 26 at 5 p.m. with a discussion featuring Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb), an NIU POLS alumnus, and Professor Scot Schraufnagel. The hour-long event, conducted on Zoom, will feature a discussion moderated by me on a variety of topics such as the state of democracy, conflict in Congress, bipartisanship, and what lies ahead for the 118th Congress. A moderated question and answer session will follow.
The program is free and open to the public, but advanced registration is required. Go to http://go.niu.edu/Rebuilding-Democracy-RSVP to request a link to the event prior to Sept. 26. Event links will be sent out from the clas-communication@niu.edu mailbox one day prior to the event.
Congressman Don Bacon is an Air Force veteran, NIU alumnus and represents Nebraska's 2nd District in the House of Representatives. He was named Top Republican for Bipartisan Cooperation in 2024 and Most Effective Republican legislator in the 117th Congress-House by the Center for Effective Lawmaking. He was ranked first by the Common Ground Committee, Inc. for improving public discourse in politics (2022), ranked 15th for the 116th Congress in the Bipartisan Index rankings and had the second highest number of bills signed into law (11) during the 117th Congress according to Govtrack.
Schraufnagel is a professor and former chair of the NIU Political Science department. His latest book, “Conflict in Congress: A Call for Moderation,” introduces Legislative Conflict Theory. The theory suggests that conflict in legislatures is two-dimensional and that a moderate level of conflict will be most productive. To achieve a balance of conflict, it boils down to recruiting the right type of people to serve. In the current political climate, defined by hyper-conflict, the need is for disciplined, mannerly legislators committed to compromise.
Please encourage your students to take advantage of these programs. Both are a great opportunity to gain knowledge and understanding beyond the classroom.
The 20th annual Lincoln Lecture will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 in Altgeld Auditorium. This year’s program will feature a discussion with award-winning author Clint Smith on the topic of “Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America,” moderated by Christina Abreu, Director of the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies. The program will draw on Smith’s 2021 book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2021.
The W. Bruce Lincoln Endowed Lecture Series brings to campus distinguished scholars who address topics of interest to both the academic community and the general public. The lectures engage key issues and are often interdisciplinary, in the spirit of Professor Lincoln’s research, writing and teaching.
Hello
everyone,
Hope the
Spring 2024 semester is off to a good start, even with frigid temperatures/
The Women in
STEM Lecture series is hosting back with its first event of the semester with
the community building event on February 6th at 12:30 pm at the
Founders Memorial Library.
This is an
opportunity to informally form new connections, grow existing ones, and discuss
any concerns/suggestions.
This event is
limited to the first 50 people who register by Friday, February 2nd
by emailing wostem_info@mail.niu.edu.
Please see the attached flyer for more details.
Please help us
spread the word!
Thank you and
stay warm!!
Women in STEM
advisory committee.
As we celebrate International Women’s Day, today, I am pleased to share our final activity of the Spring semester for the Women in STEM lecture series scheduled on April 3rd at 12:00 pm. Dr. Leslie Kay will be talking about “The sense of smell as a framework for cognitive health” and sharing her journey as a woman and a member of the LGBTQ+ community in STEM. We are honored that she has accepted our invitation. Please see attached flyer for more information. Please share widely!
Dr. Kay is also available to meet with a few people, please let me know if you are interested in meeting with her.
For additional queries, please email wostem_info@mail.niu.edu
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