Honors At National Conference Honors students Simon Bickford, Summer Carlson, Dante Casanova, Nkemdilim Chibuko, Jacob Ebeling, Kendall Kelly, and Jessica Splichal represented Northern at the National Collegiate Honors Conference held in Kansas City in early November. The students each competed in the poster session where they showcased their research. They also had the opportunity to attend numerous workshops and keynote events including speakers Erin Gruwell, Kate Manne, and Jorgen Watne Frydnes. During the City as Text exploration activity, the students toured the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and the American Jazz Museum while navigating the public transportation system of Kansas City. Pictured to the right is the group waiting in line at Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que. It was worth the wait! Common Read Lecture Internationally acclaimed author Ruta Sepetys returned to campus for NSU’s annual Larry and Julie Poeppel Family Common Read Lecture on September 25. Sepetys spoke about her historical fiction novel, I Must Betray You, which was awarded the Yoto Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice Medal. I Must Betray You is set in Romania in 1989, during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, who uses isolation and fear to keep the citizens under control. When Cristian Florescu, a 17-year-old with dreams of becoming a writer, is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, he’s left with two choices: betray everyone or undermine an evil dictator. NSU HONORS PROGRAM
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