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Fall 2022 Study Groups Are Off to a Great Start!
OLLI Coordinators, Volunteers, and Staff put forth great effort to ensure members experience a successful start to the Fall semester.
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✓ Reminders
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Support Your Coordinators: Coordinators put a lot into preparing study groups. Show your support by notifying them if you are going to be absent, participating in discussion, volunteering to lead a session, and thanking them for their time and effort.
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Add/Drop deadline is noon this Friday, September 16. Monday study group deadline is noon Monday, September 19. Email olli@northwestern.edu with your request.
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Wildcards have been mailed to all OLLI members who purchased a Full Year Membership. Please allow time for USPS to deliver.
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FALL KICK-OFF CELEBRATION PARTY PICS | |
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Words used to describe the OLLI Kick Off Event:
Fun, amazing, happy, interactive, fun, welcoming, in-person, joyous, new friends, old friends, fun, open-minded discussions, smart peers, engaging, fun…
Did I mention fun yet????
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Chicago Party Pics
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Thank you to OLLI Volunteer Photographers:
Joe Simchak and Ted Davis
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Evanston Party Pics
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Thank you to OLLI Volunteer Photographer:
Michael Jablon
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Thank you to the OLLI Membership Enrichment Committee members who volunteered their time and talent to make the Kick-Off Parties successful and FUN! | |
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OLLI Special Event
How NASA and Northwestern Scientists Are Revealing Cosmic Mysteries with the James Webb Space Telescope!
Friday, September 23, 2022, 1:00pm-2:30pm
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Location: Online via Zoom
This summer, the world marveled at the first breathtaking images of NASA’s $10-billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), from 14 billion years ago to nearly the Big Bang. The JWST heralds a new era of space exploration, able to discover unfathomable numbers of galaxies, stars, planets, and other cosmic bodies—even perhaps the chemical signatures of life.
Dr. Mark SubbaRao, the Lead of NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio, will demonstrate how JWST’s digital data from the blackness of space is turned into stunning images. Our second expert speaker Dr. Allison Strom, Assistant Professor at Northwestern’s Department of Physics & Astronomy and a core faculty member of CIERA, The Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Exploration in Astrophysics, will share some first highlights of Northwestern’s research.
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Click Here to Register
This event is free and open to all 2022-23 OLLI members. Registration is required through the OLLI online registration system.
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OLLI Members are also invited to CIERA’s 13th Annual Public Lecture on October 6th at the Cahn Auditorium at 5:30pm. Subscribe to the CIERA Friends email list for information about monthly “Astronomer Evenings” at the Dearborn Observatory on the Evanston campus, and other public participation opportunities. | | |
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In-person
Aging, Health, and Longevity in the 21st Century
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Wednesday, October 19, Noon–1:00pm
Location: Chicago Wieboldt Hall
S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D., School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago will explain why humans live as long as we do, and why this new effort to slow aging represents a paradigm shift in public health that should benefit generations to come.
Click Here to Register
A limited number of seats remain for this in-person event. Presentation slides accompanied by an audio recording of the lecture will be available to current OLLI members through the Student Canvas Site.
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Virtual
The White Power Movement: Out from the Fringes; Into the Mainstream
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Friday, November 18, 1:00pm–2:30pm
Location: Online via Zooml
An Interactive Event with Dr. Kathleen Belew, Professor of History, Northwestern University. Learn about the history of the white power movement, how it has entered the mainstream, its current danger to our democracy, and what you can do to help reduce the threat.
Click Here to Register
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Library stacks are open, and OLLI members can access the Main Library building in Evanston. Bring your Wildcard or photo ID.
Until further notice, NU library staff will continue to ship books to patrons who are not able to come to the library in person.
Schaffner Library in Chicago Wieboldt Hall is permanently closed.
Need help finding resources for your study group, or have questions about other library-related matters? Email Tracy Coyne: tracy-coyne@northwestern.edu Additional information: Click Here
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Chicago Office:
339 East Chicago Avenue
Wieboldt Hall, 4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
M-F 8:30am–4:30pm
312-503-7881
olli@northwestern.edu
OLLI Staff work remotely on Fridays.
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Evanston Office:
500 Davis Street
Suite 700
Evanston, IL 60201
M-F 8:30am–4:30pm
847-492-8204
olli@northwestern.edu
OLLI Staff work remotely on Fridays.
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National Resource Center for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (NRC) |
The mission of the National Resource Center is to help OLLIs thrive by connecting OLLIs to each other and to resources, collaborating with OLLIs and partner organizations, consulting with OLLI leaders to find solutions, and celebrating the camaraderie and growth of OLLIs and their members. Members can subscribe to their monthly newsletter to find out what is happening at OLLIs across the country.
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