Northern Michigan University's 52nd annual fall semester job fair for students and alumni will be held from 1-4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, in the Northern Center. About 80 employers are scheduled to attend. Students and alumni who log into Handshake and join the event, then check in at the job fair, will have their names entered into a drawing for one of 10 prizes.    

Actress Diane Guerrero from Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin will speak at Northern Michigan University about her life and activism in the wake of her parents' deportation when she was 14. She will discuss her memoir, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in the Northern Center ballrooms. 

Recent developments in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease will be the topic of the next Your Health presentation at Northern Michigan University. Scott Counts, associate professor of translational neuroscience at Michigan State University, will give the talk at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, in Reynolds Recital Hall. 

The Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center's new exhibition, “The 51st State?”, will open with a public reception at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11. Yooper hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be served. Admission to the reception and exhibition is free.

As part of Northern Michigan University's Visiting Writers Program, poet Jericho Brown will give a free presentation at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17m in Jamrich 1100. Brown's first book, Please, won the American Book Award. His sophomore release, The New Testament, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront and the Academy of American Poets.