Day: June 20, 2017

NIU campus

Park Forest Residents Among 3,000 Graduates at Northern Illinois University

NIU congratulates spring 2017 graduates DeKALB, Ill.—(ENEWSPF)–June 20, 2017 – Northern Illinois University celebrated commencement weekend, May 12 and 13. Included among the more than 3,000 graduates were the following students from Park Forest: Tiara Arrington, Bachelor of Science, Family Social Services, Alysia Davis, Bachelor of Arts, Sociology Brooke Gordon,[Read More…]

Drug Policy Alliance

California’s Marijuana Legalization Law is Retroactively Reducing or Eliminating People’s Records and Changing Their Lives

CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)—June 20, 2017 AlterNet Prop. 64 gave my friend a second chance at life. By: Eunisses Hernandez / AlterNet, June 20, 2017 http://www.alternet.org/drugs/california-marijuana-legalization I am what you call a policy wonk. I work to end the war on drugs and dismantle the criminal justice system through polices based on health[Read More…]

World Refugee Day

On World Refugee Day, UN Urges Support, Solidarity for Record Number of Displaced People

After three days on the road, South Sudanese refugees arrive at the newly constructed Gure Shembola Camp in Ethiopia. Photo: UNHCR/Diana Diaz NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–20 June 2017 – With a record 65.6 million people last year forcibly uprooted from their homes by violence and persecution, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today[Read More…]

Kepler Survey

NASA Releases Kepler Survey Catalog with Hundreds of New Planet Candidates

NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has identified 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and in the habitable zone of their star. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–June 20, 2017. NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candidates, 10[Read More…]

coral bleaching

Global Coral Bleaching Event Likely Ending

But scientists forecast high ocean temperatures may persist in some areas Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 20, 2017. After analyzing satellite and model data, NOAA’s experts say coral reefs around the world may finally catch a break from high ocean temperatures that have lingered for an unprecedented three years, the longest period since[Read More…]

PSC Fall 2017 registration

Registration Open for Fall Credit and Non-Credit Courses at Prairie State College

CHICAGO HEIGHTS—(ENEWSPF)—June 20, 2017. Registration for fall 2017 is open at Prairie State College (PSC). Credit courses begin Monday, Aug. 21. Non-credit courses include a variety of single-day and multiple-session offerings that begin throughout the fall. Both credit and non-credit courses are listed in the fall class schedule, available on[Read More…]

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