Eleven students from NMU Theater and Dance recently attended the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) annual conference and stage expo in Columbus, Ohio. Four of the students were selected as conference assistants, and one presented a poster presentation.

Northern Michigan University students at Radio X (WUPX-FM) will broadcast an all-day NMU 125th Anniversary Alumni Show from 6 a.m. to midnight Saturday, March 22. Radio X alumni are scheduled to guest-DJ radio shows, and there will be interviews with other alumni. Radio X announcements from the past will air, and students will present NMU history moments that they have researched in the NMU Archives. 

As part of Northern Michigan University's 125th Anniversary Celebration, a special public event is planned to recognize the 30th anniversary of "Haywire," the Forest Roberts Theatre musical about an 1880s logging camp that was one of five productions selected from more than 900 national submissions to perform at the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival. 

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held March 11 for Gretchen's House-Marquette,  the newest satellite location for the Ann Arbor-based childcare provider, which is offered in partnership with Northern Michigan University. It is located close to campus in Messiah Lutheran Church, with its own secure entrance, three classrooms and two playgrounds.

When large-scale natural or man-made disasters occur in the United States, such as Hurricane Helene or the recent Washington, D.C. plane crash, a Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) may be deployed at the request of the local medical examiner's office to help identify deceased individuals and store the bodies until they are claimed. DMORT has never deployed in cold weather, so to ensure its processes would function well in that environment, it held its first full cold-weather training exercise at Northern Michigan University last week, shortly after the blizzard. Organizers gave NMU high marks for the professionalism of students from various disciplines who participated, and for help facilitating the setup a disaster portable morgue unit in a Jacobetti Complex parking lot.