The Dennos Museum Center was the focus of a recent feature in the Grand Traverse Insider about a recent visit to the museum by 51 Chinese high school students, teachers and their TCAPS chaperones.
Students interested in everything from environmental nature art to law are invited to attend bimonthly meetings of Students for the Environment.
Meetings will be held every other Friday starting Feb. 8 @ 12:30 p.m. in the West Hall conference room. Refreshments will be provided.
For more information, contact Adam Morrissey, morrisad@mail.gvsu.edu.
TRAVERSE CITY — Auditions for the 2013 production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues will be held from 7-9 p.m. Feb. 6 and 13 in the West Hall conference room on NMC’s main campus.
A script will be provided. Rehearsals for selected cast will be held Feb. 20 and 27 and March 6 and 13. The performance is set for 7 p.m. March 14 in Milliken Auditorium. The production is sponsored by NMC’s Office of Student Life.
For more information:
Emily Magner
NMC Office of Student Life
(231) 995-1118
emagner@nmc.edu
Monday, February 11th NMC Student Life and Residence Life will be hosting the Red Flag Party at 9:00pm in the basement of East Hall.
All NMC students are welcomed to attend and there will be food and drinks provided as well as up to $500 in door prizes distributed throughout the evening.
Tuesday, February 12
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Join in the fun at West Hall!
The entire building will be one big party to celebrate and show off all of the changes that have been made!
Raffles! Prizes! Food! Music!
Stop in and visit to learn more about Outreach Services, Student Life, Student Government and more!
Congratulations to Constanza Hazelwood, Great Lakes Water Studies Institute Education and Outreach Coordinator. She had the winning ticket in the Phi Theta Kappa Hot Spot parking spot raffle.
The proceeds from the raffle will help fund the group’s trip to the Phi Theta Kappa Annual Convention in San Jose, California in early April.
Congratulations Constanza!
Please note that you may not receive a 1098-T if you did not have any charges in 2012 or if all of your charges were paid by scholarships or third parties.
You may view the 1098-T or use the print option via:
Self-Service
Please Note:
Click here for Instructions for Students for the 1098-T form For more information: http://www.irs.gov/Forms-&-Pubs (Form 8863, Education Credits, and Pub. 970, Tax Benefits for Education, and the Form 1040 or 1040A instructions)
Questions? Student Financial Services (231) 995-1035 or sfs@nmc.edu.
Take a break from winter weather to join us in exploring the world’s most famous shipwreck, and its connections to Michigan and the Nautical Archaeology program at NMC! The Northwestern Michigan College Archaeology Society will host two evening lectures – the first on Friday evening, February 8, 2013 entitled Michigan Connections to the RMS Titanic, and the second on Saturday evening February 9, 2013 titled The Titanic Mapping Project.
Our special guest, Kenneth J. Vrana, will share his knowledge and experiences gained from the historical and archaeological study of RMS Titanic. He also looks forward to discussing opportunities for the study of our tremendous Great Lakes underwater cultural heritage. Mr. Vrana served as consulting underwater archaeologist for both Titanic Expedition 2004 and 2010 as well as Carpathia Expedition 2007. He is currently co-director of the Titanic Mapping Project for Premier Exhibitions, Inc. During a 35-year career, Mr. Vrana has recorded nearly 1,000 scientific dives on historic shipwrecks throughout the United States, western Pacific and Caribbean region, including project coordinator for the first civilian expedition to the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1989.
On Friday, February 8 at 7:30 – 8:30pm, Mr. Vrana will present Michigan Connections to the RMS Titanic, followed by a question and answer session. Prior to the presentation (6:00 – 7:30pm), there is a reception in the Dennos Museum Center lobby to meet the speaker. Tickets for this event are $25 per person.
On Saturday, February 9 at 7:30 – 8:00pm, NMC students will present the results of current nautical archaeology research in Northwestern Michigan. Following the student presentations, Mr. Vrana will present The Titanic Mapping Project. The event will last until 9:00pm with time for questions. Tickets for this event are $10 per person.
Tickets are available from NMCAS Members, the Social Science Department at NMC (114 Scholars Hall), and at the door. All proceeds will benefit the Northwestern Michigan College Archaeology Society’s student research trip to Wales in June 2013. For more information visit www.nasnmc.com.
Title: African American women chemists
Author: Brown, Jeannette E. (Jeannette Elizabeth), 1934-
Call #: QD21 .B69 2012
Dr. Marie Maynard Daly received her PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1947. Although she was hardly the first of her race and gender to engage in the field, she was the first African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States. In this book, Jeannette Brown, an African American woman chemist herself, will prese …
Title: Far from the tree : parents, children and the search for identity
Author: Solomon, Andrew, 1963-
Call #: HV888.5 .S65 2012
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression comes a monumental new work, a decade in the writing, about family. In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. Solomon’s startling …
Title: The physics of invisibility : a story of light and deception
Author: Beech, Martin, 1959-
Call #: QC406 .B4 2012
The ability is see is fundamental to our very existence. How true our perceptions really are depends upon many factors, and not least is our understanding of what light is and how it interacts with matter. It was said that the camera, the icon of light recording instruments, never lies, and in the day of the glass plate and celluloid roll-film …
Title: Why noise matters : a worldwide perspective on the problems, policies and solutions
Author: Stewart, John, 1949-
Call #: TD892 .S75 2011
Why noise matters — Noise: widespread and worldwide — Hear me now! noise can harm your health! — Noise: the neglected green issue of our age? — Noise in the workplace — Transport noise — Neighbour/neighbourhood noise — Piped music: the music you cannot turn off — Noise and the law — Making change happen.
Title: The science of navigation : from dead reckoning to GPS
Author: Denny, Mark, 1953-
Call #: VK559 .D44 2012
Writing in non-technical terms with a sense of humor, Denny, a physicist who has written other popular science works, charts the history of navigation and explains its role in the history of civilization. The first part of the book outlines key ideas of geodesy and cartography and explains the physical, engineering, and mathematical principles …
Come chat with the officers to learn more about the opportunities Phi Theta Kappa can offer YOU!
NMC student Katy Stevenson is a semi-finalist in the Write Michigan contest in Grand Rapids. Her charming short story is based on a folk tale and a Sam Spade type of detective and is one of ten selected for final judging by both readers and an official judges’ panel.
You can vote for “Maguire Firefly and the Tooth Thief” here until January 31.
Congratulations and good luck in the finals, Katy!
The Writing Center will have a tutor stationed in the Osterlin Library Monday nights from
5 p.m.-9 p.m. beginning January 21. Stop by the library for assistance with interpreting assignments and writing papers.
NMC student Kathryn Stevenson is a semi-finalist in the Write Michigan contest in Grand Rapids. Her charming short story, based on a folk tale and a Sam Spade type of detective, is one of ten selected for final judging by both readers and an official judges’ panel.
Read “Maguire Firefly and the Tooth Thief,” at this link. You can vote for her story through Jan. 31.
NMC is offering Free FAFSA Fridays to help you. Come to the Student Success Center in the Osterlin Library on any Friday in February between 3 and 6 p.m. Bring your 2012 tax/income information, social security card, and drivers license.
The State of Michigan deadline is March 1 and NMC’s priority award consideration date is April 1.
The Center of Learning has changed its name to the Student Success Center. While the testing center and computer lab will function in much the same way, it will be expanding it’s student support offerings to include workshops, success coaching, a referral/alert system, classroom visits, learning communities and more.
For more information about the Student Success Center contact Ashley Horak, Coordinator for Student Success, at 5-3021 or ahorak@nmc.edu