Education

Year in review: New leadership
Dec 31 2009 - 11:40am  |  Bill Smith

Evanston voters elected a batch of new political leaders this year -- five of the nine City Council seats and the mayor's chair changed hands in the April election.

Scholar to discuss pioneering American Indian writer
Dec 29 2009 - 3:38pm  |  Nat Silverman

University of Illinois professor Robert Dale Parker, who edited a recent milestone collection of works by Ojibwe author Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, will discuss his research on this notable Native writer at 1 p.m. Sunday, January 10, at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, 3001 Central Street, Evanston.

Kids Craft Morning: Corn husk masks
Dec 29 2009 - 3:32pm  |  Nat Silverman

Kids can learn to make corn husk masks at the Kids Craft Morning workshop 10:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, January 9, at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, 3001 Central St., Evanston, Ill.

Great Books Pre-Screening and Discussion of Emma
Dec 29 2009 - 12:26pm  |  Evanston Library

Join the Great Books Foundation for a preview and discussion of the new PBS version of Jane Austen's Emma.

This event will take place in the Community Meeting Room (First Floor). Registration is not required.

Jr. Science Cafe: The Secrets of Type 1 Diabetes
Dec 29 2009 - 12:09pm  |  Evanston Library

Jr. Science Cafe! The Secrets of Type 1 Diabetes: How Do Teens Live With It & What Promise Does Research Offer For a Cure? More and more people either have or know someone who has Type 1 Diabetes (Juvenile Diabetes). The complications and their effects on the lives of those living with the disease means that diabetes research has the potential to bring significant benefits to many people.

Alex Kotlowitz reading
Dec 29 2009 - 9:18am  |  Northwestern News

Writer Alex Kotlowitz, best known as the author of the national bestseller “There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America,” will read from his works Tuesday, Jan. 26, at Northwestern University.

Bloomsbury group to take center stage at Block
Dec 28 2009 - 2:37pm  |  Northwestern News

More than 150 paintings, works on paper, vintage small-press books and decorative objects that reflect the creativity of Britain’s Bloomsbury group are part of the winter 2010 programming at Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, in Evanston.

Nobel laureate to speak at NU next month
Dec 23 2009 - 3:27pm  |  Northwestern News

Murray Gell-Mann, who won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles, will be one of six distinguished speakers delivering lectures at the annual Walter and Christine Heilborn Symposium to be held Jan. 6 to 8 at Northwestern University.

League of Women Voters Meeting
Dec 22 2009 - 4:09pm  |  Susan Black

Why the Census COUNTS!

Event Sponsored by League of Women Voters of Evanston

Date: Wednesday, January 13, 11:45 a.m.

Location: The Mather - Address: 425 Davis Street in Evanston.

Luncheon Location: The Possibility Room
 

MIC January Series: Lewis, Clark, and the Native American Encounter
Dec 18 2009 - 7:02pm  |  Samuel Nordlund

The Music Institute of Chicago presents it's annual January Series, with programs on January 3, 10, 17, and 24.  This year, the Series is entitled "From All Sides: Paving the Way to America's Cultural Identity."  Through lecture, music, art and film, each program will take you on a historical journey from America's past, exploring how our culture was formed by a wide array o

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