If you liked the soft feel of the quarter zip on display at opening conference, we now have a ladies version in stock in periwinkle and navy.
A full zip hoodie is also available in pink and surf blue. NMC is embroidered in silver on all items. Once you feel the softness, you won’t be able to resist!
The asymmetrical hoodie in blue, green and violet is a unique style. It has three buttons on the side of the neck area toprovide extra comfort.
Start your Christmas shopping early and check out our selection of children’s books that have just arrived. We have about 70 different titles in stock.
Dr. Terrie E. Taylor describes the battle against malaria and the hope that her work brings to an embattled region. Dr. Taylor is a distinguished professor of internal medicine at Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine and a Traverse City native.
For the past 25 years, she has spent half of each year leading a team of physicians battling the scourge of malaria in the African country of Malawi and is currently leading a $9.1 million effort there. Among her numerous awards, Dr. Taylor was the 2011 recipient of the AMA’s International Award for Medicine.
The eight-part IAF series brings diplomats, policy makers, journalists and others from all over the globe to Milliken Auditorium. All programs begin with a reception in the Sculpture Court of the Dennos Museum Center at 5:15 p.m. and are followed at 6 p.m. by the lecture and a discussion period in Milliken Auditorium. See the complete 2012-13 speaker schedule »
All current educators and students are admitted free. The public is invited to attend for $10 at the door. For more information, call NMC Extended Education at 231-995-1700.
Veterans Day originated as “Armistice Day” on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation in 1954 to change the name to Veterans Day as a way to honor those who served in all American wars. The day honors military veterans with parades and speeches across the nation.
A national ceremony takes place at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
It’s the last week of the Food for Thought Fill the Pantries food drive, organized by NMC’s Professional Communications class. We know there’s several teams out there collecting food — including Founders Hall, the Dental Assisting program, the Business Discipline and the Osterlin Building. For the rest of you, it’s not too late!
Follow these two easy steps to win the catered meal provided bySpaghetti Jim’s!
1) Between now and Thursday, collect — as a department, academic area, office, etc. — as many healthy non-perishable food items, toiletries and household items as you can.
2) Call or email Ed or Kristy (see below) to have your items counted and picked up by 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8. The team with the most items wins the meal.
PS – Can’t do the challenge? You can still donate items by dropping them off in our donation barrels located in most buildings on all campuses. If a monetary donation is more convenient, please donate here.
Here’s a list of new books in the NMC Osterlin Library.
Title: Modernist cuisine : the art and science of cooking
Author: Myhrvold, Nathan.
Publisher: Cooking Lab,
Pub date: 2011.
6 v. :
The authors–scientists, inventors, and accomplished cooks in their own right–have created a six-volume, 2,400-page set that reveals science-inspired techniques for preparing food that ranges from the otherworldly to the sublime.
Title: The best American poetry, 2012
Author: Doty, Mark.
Publisher: Scribner Poetry,
Pub date: 2012.
Mark Doty brings the vitality and imagination that illuminate his own work to his selections for the twenty-fifth volume in the Best American Poetry series. He has chosen poems of high moral earnestness and poems in a comic register; poems that tell stories and poems that test the boundaries of innovative composition.
Title: Don’t stop thinking about the music : the politics of songs and musicians in Presidential campaigns
Author: Schoening, Benjamin S., 1978-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Pub date: c2012.
In this insightful, erudite history of presidential campaign music, musicologist Benjamin Schoening and political scientist Eric Kasper explain how politicians use music in American presidential campaigns to convey a range of political messages.
Title: Chemical engineering : a new introduction
Author: Denn, Morton M., 1939-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Pub date: 2011.
Chemical engineering is the field of applied science that employs physical, chemical, and biological rate processes for the betterment of humanity’. This opening sentence of Chapter 1 has been the underlying paradigm of chemical engineering.
On Thursday, November 8, the Michigan Global Awareness Consortium offers the second presentation of its fall series.
We are pleased to welcome Professor Kerri Finlayson, who teaches anthropology and sociology at North Central Michigan College (NCMC), and Professor Ken Winter, who teaches political science and journalism at NCMC and Ferris State University.
Winter is also a former editor and publisher of the Petoskey New Review and a member of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. Both Finlayson and Winter recently returned from Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. Their trip, sponsored by Ohio State University and the Niagara Foundation, allowed them to participate in conversations about revolutionary changes in the Turkish society. Please join us on November 8to hear these distinguished researchers discuss the developing social, economic, religious, and political dynamics in Turkey.
The event (7:00 — 8:30 pm in the Oleson Center, Room A/B) is free and open to the public. Please see the attached poster for more details, and spread word to community members. Thank you.
FREE FRIDAY NIGHT FLICK! Student Life has partnered up with the State Theatre to offer the first Friday night Flick of every month FREE to NMC students with Student ID.
This Friday, Nov. 2, @ 10:45 pm join us at the State Theatre downtown for a FREE SURPRISE FILM! We promise, you have seen it before and you will love seeing it on the big screen!
Come find out Monday, Nov. 5 at 4 pm in Scholars Hall 217, where the film “Iron Jawed Angels” will be shown. Starring Hilary Swank, the HBO film is the true story of how a group of defiant young activists took the women’s suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Sponsored by NMC Student Life, Osterlin Library, and the Department of Learning Services
Hey there. You, with the cell phone. We know you’ve got a camera on it. So let’s have a little fun.
We’re launching NMC in photos, a way for anyone on campus to become an unofficial NMC photographer. Just snap and submit your candid images of life on campus. A caption’s nice, too. Accepted photos will be posted at nmc.edu/photos, where you can also read the fine print about what size photo and more. Thanks in advance for sharing all that you can find here at NMC.
Some lucky NMC calculus students arrived for their regular Wednesday lecture this week to find they had a world-famous tutor for the day.
Elvis, a 12-year-old Corgi, and his owner, Tim Pennings, associate professor of mathematics at Hope College in Holland, Mich. stopped in at the invitation of NMC Math department head Jack Berman for a demonstration.
Using the hallway on the second floor of the Biederman Building as a makeshift lab, Pennings threw tennis balls for Elvis to chase, demonstrating how Elvis innately demonstrates concepts of calculus in the way he pursues the ball.
Pennings said he first noticed Elvis’ approach when playing with Elvis on a beach, throwing balls into the water. Elvis didn’t, as most dogs do, chase straight after the ball into water, rather he would run along the beach until he was closer to the ball, then go into the water after it. Elvis was taking the quickest route to the ball, not necessarily the shortest.
Pennings and Elvis have been featured on CNN, where Pennings further explains Elvis’ abilities.
NMC’s Professional Communications class, instructed by Kristy McDonald, is organizing a food drive challenge. This is an excellent opportunity to show our strength as a community by joining together to fill the Northwest Food Coalition’s 47 food pantries by Thanksgiving. According to Val Stone, Northwest Food Coalition coordinator, visits to food pantries in our five county area rose 83 percent between 2007 and 2011.
Here is how the challenge works:
Form a team (class, individual, department, student group, NMC employees, etc.).
Start collecting healthy non-perishable food items, toiletries, and household items.
Once you have collected as many items as possible, call or e-mail the contact below for an item count and pick-up time.
Participants have until 5 p.m. on November 8 to qualify for the grand prize. If your team has the largest number of individual items you will win a catered meal provided by Spaghetti Jim’s!
If you are not able to compete in this challenge, you can still donate items by dropping them off in our donation barrels located in most buildings on all campuses. If a monetary donation is more convenient, please donate here.
Thank you for helping us make this food drive a great success! With your help, we can all make a difference this Thanksgiving.
If you have any questions, or to arrange your pick-up, please contact:
NMC’s newest degree program, Audio Technology, will host an open house from 4 to 7 p.m. October 25 in the audio technology lab at the University Center campus.
The 18-month fast track program offers students two dozen courses to choose from. Credentials offered include a degree and three levels of platform-centric certification from industry leaders like Apple.
Job opportunities in the field include sound engineer, recording engineer, sound designer, live and theater sound engineer, mixing engineer, mastering engineer, audio/visual equipment technician, archivist, producer, composer, broadcast technician, Pro Tools operator, audio editor and audio post production.
As part of the Great Lakes Bioneers Conference, an encore screening of Stone Hut Studios’ documentary The People and The Olive: The Story of The Run Across Palestine will be held October 21 at NMC’s Milliken Auditorium from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
This screening is open to the public, and tickets are available at the door for $8 per person and $6 for Bioneers participants. Children under 10 are free.
The October 21 screening will be the grand finale of the 2012 Great Lakes Bioneers conference.
The film follows the Run Across Palestine, a 129-mile ultra-marathon in February 2012, when six Americans ran five days across the West Bank in Palestine planting olive trees along their route and shedding light on the daily joys and struggles of Palestinian Fair Trade olive farmers.
Directed by Traverse City filmmaker Dennis and produced by journalist Jacob Wheeler, the film debuted to a sold-out State Theater crowd in September, and has since played in the Chicago International Social Change Film Festival and the Boston Palestine Film Festival.
Win cash, gain experience, and earn international recognition with one short video or a poster! The EDUCAUSE & Internet2 Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) is conducting a contest in search of short information security awarenessvideos and posters developed by college students for college students. The contest seeks creative, topical, and effective videos (two minutes or less) and posters that focus attention on information security problems and how best to handle them.
Winners will receive cash prizes, and their videos and posters will be featured on the HEISC website (www.educause.edu/security). The winning videos and posters may be used in campus security awareness campaigns.
A gold, silver, and bronze prize will be awarded in three categories—training films of two minutes or less, 30-second public service announcements (PSAs), and posters—for a total of nine cash prizes. Honorable mention prizes will also be awarded.
The fall issue celebrates the magazine’s 33-year history and invites your ideas of what defines NMC or our broader culture NOW, and what speculations you have of our future in another 33 years.
Submit poetry, fiction, essays, artwork, photography, 2-D design, music, animation, and other creative expressions by Oct. 30.
