IAF Global Hotspot | Israel-Palestine: Conflict in Context

Mar 1, 2024 | Intercom, Student Events

Northwestern Michigan College’s International Affairs Forum continues its 30th season on Tuesday, March 19 in the Dennos Museum Center. Join IAF for AI & Global Cooperation: What’s Happening & What’s Next featuring Joshua Meltzer, Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. Meltzer will discuss why generative AI matters, how government policy can address new risks that AI exposes, as well as economic potential for scientific discovery, and potential competition with China.

Meltzer’s research focuses on international economic relations and the intersection of technology and trade policy. Along with Cameron Kerry, he co-leads the Forum on Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence (FCAI)—a multi-stakeholder dialogue with government officials from the U.S., EU, Canada, the U.K., Singapore, Japan, and Australia, as well as AI experts from industry and academia. He also leads the USMCA initiative, which focuses on how the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) can strengthen international cooperation in North America.

The March 19 in-person event at the Dennos Museum Center is open to the public and available to livestream online. Admission is $15 per person. Admission is free for all students and educators. The reception begins at 6 p.m. with the program following at 7 p.m.

For in-person tickets, online tickets, and all event details, visit TCIAF.com.

Hope springs blood drive March 19

Feb 26, 2024 | Intercom, Student Events

Versiti Blood is bringing the big pink bus to NMC’S Campus again in hopes of changing lives one donation at a time! 

They are hosting a blood drive on Tuesday, March 19 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Cedar lot. Those who donate will receive a $10 e-gift card.

Appointments are preferred, but walk-ins are welcome. Make sure to eat a healthy meal and drink plenty of water before donating.

 If you want to sign up please click on the link below or call 1(866) Mi-Blood.

For questions, contact Kristi Hallett at khallet@nmc.edu or Susan Street, Senior Representative of Versiti, at sstreet@versiti.org.

LinkedIn webinar with Chaim Shapiro

Feb 12, 2024 | Intercom, Student Events

Chaim Shapiro is hosting an informative webinar at 1 p.m. on Thursday, February 29 at 1 p.m. that will cover how to use LinkedIn to enhance the job search process. Learn how to set up a profile, connect with professional organizations, stay current on industry trends and explore new features.

Shapiro is the director of the Office for Student Success at Touro College in New York, a freelance writer, public speaker, LinkedIn consultant and a board-certified coach specializing in career coaching.

For more information, contact Amy Burns Bailey at aburns@nmc.edu

Game night with Lantern Games

Feb 5, 2024 | Intercom, Student Events

Save the Date!

Join fellow NMC students and employees on Wednesday, March 13 from 5–7:30 p.m. in the Timothy J. Nelson Innovation Center room 106/107 for a fun evening of board games and card games with Lantern Games. Come and learn a new game, make a friend and relax.

Any questions—reach out to athornton@nmc.edu.

China: Emerging Trends

Jan 29, 2024 | Intercom, Student Events

Northwestern Michigan College’s International Affairs Forum continues its 30th season on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Dennos Museum Center with a program by Lucy Hornby, Senior Associate at the Center for International and Strategic Studies. The program is presented in partnership with the Economic Club of Traverse City. The event is free for students and educators.

In 2023, Hornby was a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, where her research focused on the revival of the Chinese state and the rise of Xi Jinping during the reform era. She lived in China for almost 20 years, working as a journalist for Reuters and the Financial Times, before returning to the United States as a 2020 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She first moved to China in 1995, teaching English in Wuhan thanks to Princeton in Asia, a program that builds bridges between the United States and Asia. She has also reported on Asian energy markets and investment for Dow Jones Newswires and on Latin American energy investment for Energy Intelligence.

A fluent Mandarin speaker, Hornby has reported from every Chinese province and region, on topics ranging from elite politics to the trade war and environmental pollution. Her coverage was honored with the 2018 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award for excellence in business reporting, among other awards, for investigations into the ownership and financing of some of China’s largest and most opaque conglomerates.

The Feb. 15 in-person event at the Dennos Museum Center Milliken Auditorium is open to the public and available to livestream online. Admission is $15 per person. Admission is free for all students and educators. Doors open at 6 p.m.; the program begins promptly at 7 p.m.

For in-person tickets, online tickets, and all event details, visit TCIAF.com.

Lunch & Learn: Ken Scott Transformation Coaching

Jan 25, 2024 | Intercom, Student Events

In this engaging interactive presentation, Kennith Scott, HeartMath Certified NeuroChangeSolutions Consultant, will guide you to an understanding of how your brain can be memorized into a vision of the future. Advances in technology allow us to observe the brain in action and one of the biggest outcomes of this technology is a greater understanding of how the brain works, but this understanding is not a discovery, successful individuals have been using this capability of the brain without the scientific understanding for hundreds or thousands of years. The evidence of the brain’s power to create is all around us and in this presentation, you will start to build a model you can use to leverage the greatest technology the world has ever known, your human brain!

Pizza and beverages will be provided by the Experiential Learning Institute. The Lunch & Learn will take place on Thursday, February 22 from 1–2 p.m. in room 226 of the Parsons-Stulen Building at NMC’s Aero Park Campus.

Community blood drive Jan. 23

Jan 11, 2024 | Intercom, Student Events

Versiti blood supply is severely low and could use your help! What more can you ask for than the good feeling of having saved a life and being paid to do it!

They are hosting a blood drive on Tuesday, January 23 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The drive will occur at the Versiti mobile bus in the Cedar Lot.

Those who donate will receive a warm beanie (while supplies last) and a $10 e-gift card.

Appointments are preferred, but walk-ins are welcome. Make sure to eat a healthy meal and drink plenty of water before donating.

For questions, contact Susan Street, Senior Representative of Versiti, at sstreet@versiti.org.

IAF Global Hotspot | Israel-Palestine: Conflict in Context

Dec 4, 2023 | Intercom, Student Events

Northwestern Michigan College’s International Affairs Forum comes together on Thursday, Dec. 14 at 7 p.m. in the Milliken Auditorium at the Dennos Museum Center for a Global Hotspot event—Israel-Palestine: Conflict in Context. The program will include an examination of historical foundations of the current conflict and welcome back two past leaders of IAF to share their informed insights.

Leila Hilal is a human rights attorney and former IAF executive director. Hilal served as Senior Policy Adviser to the Commissioner-General of the Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) and as a legal adviser to Palestinian negotiators from 2002-2008. Now a director at the Detroit Workforce Funder Collaborative, Hilal recently returned from a visit to Jordan.

Jack Segal is a former IAF Board co-chair and a retired senior U.S. diplomat who served in the U.S. Embassy in Israel as counselor for political/military affairs during the first Intifada and the Gulf War. Jack also served at the NSC as Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and later, Director for Non-Proliferation, and at NATO as Senior Political Adviser to NATO’s operational commander in Afghanistan.

Hilal and Segal will provide vital context on this complex issue and answer audience questions, in person via question cards and online via livestream.

The Dec. 14 in-person event at the Dennos Museum Center Milliken Auditorium is open to the public and available to livestream online. Admission is $15 per person. Admission is free for all students and educators. Doors open at 6 p.m.; the program begins promptly at 7 p.m.

The International Affairs Forum is member-supported program of Northwestern Michigan College and a member affiliate of the World Affairs Councils of America. For in-person tickets, online tickets, and all event details, visit TCIAF.com.