Welcome to the NSU News Update - providing information on events happening on campus or involving NSU students, staff and faculty.
To submit a news item, send it via email to NSUNews@northern.edu by 5 p.m. Thursday of the week before the announcement should run.
Community Chinese Classes
The NSU Confucius Institute is offering community Chinese courses Sept. 3-Nov. 19. Youth classes take place 3:15-4:15 p.m. Tuesdays, and adult classes take place 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays. All classes are held in NSU’s Lincoln Hall, room 330. Cost is $20 per student. For more information or to register, call 605-626-3293 or email confucius@northern.edu.
NSU Involvement Fair and Club Rush: Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019
The NSU Involvement Fair and Club Rush is the perfect opportunity to learn about campus activities and organizations, and to network with local employers and service agencies. This annual fall kick-off event will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 4, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on the Campus Green, and is free for students to attend! Don't miss this great opportunity to learn more about events, goods, services and employment, both on-campus and in the Aberdeen community. Contact the Career Services or Student Involvement and Leadership offices to learn more.
NSU Intramural News
Intramurals will be getting started right away this year with a Sand Volleyball Tournament on Sept. 7. You can sign up and make a team on imleagues.com or you can download the imleagues app. Just make an account using your school email and you can sign up for all our events for the year. You can also go to imleagues.com with the link in our bios on Instagram (@nsu_rec), Twitter (@NsuRecreation), or Facebook (@NSU Intramural Sports). Please follow these accounts as well as we will be posting updates and reminders of events throughout the year! We are also looking for student workers. Anyone interested should contact Intramurals GA Steven McKee at steven.mckee@wolves.northern.edu. Go Wolves!
Library Carnival
The Library Carnival will be Tuesday, Sept. 10, 7-9 p.m. at Williams Library. Come play games, eat popcorn and win prizes while learning about the library! Contact the library at reference@northern.edu with any questions.
CAB Blood Drive
Campus Activities Board is sponsoring a Blood Drive on Sept. 11 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. If you are interested in signing up, please feel free to contact Janie.Borkowski@northern.edu.
3D Printer Informational Session
A 3D Printer Informational Session will be held at 4 p.m. Sept. 19 in the NSU Library Creation Lab. The event is a general introduction to 3D printing in the library and is open to all NSU students, faculty and staff. The event will highlight some uses for 3D printing, how to go about 3D printing something in the library, and a demo of the 3D printer in use.
Gypsy Day Parade Registration
Online registration for the 105th annual Northern State University Gypsy Day Parade is now open. Individuals and groups interested in entering the parade may register via the online form. Registration cost is $25. The parade is Saturday, Oct. 12, with a start time of 9 a.m. This year’s parade theme is “Wolves Live Happily Ever After.” The deadline to register online is 5 p.m. Sept. 27. For more information, contact the Student Affairs office by calling 605-626-3007 or emailing gypsydays@northern.edu.
Hall of Fame Banquet is Oct. 11
Five NSU alumni and one Wolves Athletics team will be honored at the 2019 NSU Hall of Fame Banquet. The banquet is set for 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at Aberdeen’s Dakota Event Center. This year’s inductees are Micah Arnold, Todd Ford, Matt Hammer, Carolin (Becker) Magstadt, Kira (Wannebo) Swenson and the 1993-94 women’s basketball team. For more information about the Hall of Fame Banquet, click here or contact the NSU Foundation at 605-626-2550.
NSU Larry and Julie Poeppel Family Common Read Lecture
Author Manoush Zomorodi will discuss “Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self” at the Northern State University Larry and Julie Poeppel Family Common Read Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13 in the Johnson Fine Arts Center. The lecture is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Zomorodi will speak for about 50 minutes, take questions from the audience, and then sign copies of her book. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. “Bored and Brilliant” explores the connection between boredom and original thinking and considers how we can harness boredom’s hidden benefits to become our most productive and creative selves without totally abandoning our gadgets in the process. The book is available at the NSU Wolf Shoppe for $12.25. Summer hours for the Wolf Shoppe are: 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday (closed Friday, June 28, for inventory).
NSU Faculty-Led Programs
Here are the NSU faculty-led study abroad programs taking place this academic year:
Spring Break Service Learning in Guatemala: led by Dominika Blum, March 6-14, 2020
Culture and Language in Costa Rica: led by Dr. Juan Gonzalez, May 11-25, 2020
Culture and Government in Germany: led by Drs. Ginny Lewis and Brian Bengs, May 12-21, 2020
For more information, contact NSU Study Abroad at studyabroad@northern.edu.
Name Tag Orders
NSU Communications and Marketing orders name tags for employees once a month. To request a name tag for the next campus-wide order, fill out this online form.
Wolves Helping the Community
Don’t forget: If you’re volunteering in the community or elsewhere, click here to submit your volunteer hours!
Upcoming Wolves Events
Check out upcoming Wolves events at the NSU Wolves Game Day webpage or athletics calendar.