Northern Michigan University will celebrate Native American Heritage Month in November with a series of presentations and other activities on campus and in the community.

The Northern Michigan University Regional Police Academy will host an informational meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, in room 132 of the Jacobetti Complex. The meetings are for those interested in attending NMU's Regional Police Academy, which begins May 2022 and concludes in August 2022.

Northern Michigan University medicinal plant chemistry senior Natalia Correa of Tampa, Fla., has earned an American Chemical Society (ACS) Scholar Award. The program awards renewable scholarships to undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups in the chemical sciences who are majoring in chemistry-related disciplines and intending to pursue chemistry-related careers. Correa received $5,000 for the academic year.

The Northern Michigan University College of Business will host a public presentation titled “Battling the Giants: Disruptive Strategies in the High Stakes Business of Technology” by guest speaker Kelly Kimball of Los Angeles. It will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, in room 1322 Jamrich Hall.  

NMU Interim President Kerri Schuiling has convened a campus work group to consider a recommendation to rename the Luther West Science Building, based on information that has come to light about the late biology professor's association with the national eugenics movement during the early 1900s.