News Archive
Friday, Feb 1, 2019 —
The story had everything – the largest parade Washington D.C. had ever seen, unjust imprisonment, train rides crisscrossing the country – and it all ended in the triumphant ratification of women's right to vote.
But what shocked University of Northern Iowa music professor Nancy Cobb was that she'd never heard it before. As she learned more...
Monday, Jan 28, 2019 —
“Um, how hot is it?” Austin Knapp asked as he was handed a ladle full of molten aluminum.
“Oh, it’s like 1,400 degrees.”
Suited up “like an astronaut” in shiny protective aluminum clothing, Knapp was getting ready to pour a metal casting in UNI’s Metal Casting Center (MCC). As a technology management and manufacturing engineering...
Friday, Jan 18, 2019 — A University of Northern Iowa student group has been recognized as outstanding for the third time by a national organization.
The UNI Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society received an outstanding award from the society – the highest of three distinctions awarded to student groups – for the 2017-18 academic year.
"The...
Wednesday, Jan 16, 2019 — Dr. Philip East, emeritus professor of Computer Science, is a co-author on one of the papers nominated for a Test of Time award, as part of the 50th anniversary of ACM's SIGCSE Technical Symposium. SIGCSE is the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education within ACM, the leading professional group of computing professionals...
Monday, Jan 14, 2019 — The University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art will present an exhibition titled "An Art Collection Travelogue" from Monday, Jan. 14, through Saturday, March 2. Please note, the gallery will be closed Monday, Jan. 21 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
At 6 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 24, in the Kamerick Art Building, Room 111, artist Paul Valadez...
Monday, Jan 14, 2019 — The University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art will present an exhibition in the Mary Haskell-Hansen Room of the gallery, a UNI Permanent Art Collection exhibition titled "In and After the Anthropocene." It will be open to the public on the following dates: Jan. 14 - March 2; March 25 - April 20; and April 29 - May 11. Please note, the...
Friday, Dec 14, 2018 — UNI STEM programs support deep understandings of computer science
This past summer, high school freshman Willie Brown learned how computer programmers do more than just build games and program toys while working directly with a UNI faculty member to find a way computer science could allow them to make new discoveries.
As part of the...
Wednesday, Dec 5, 2018 — Students Assist Faculty With Research Work for Ten Weeks Over the Summer
Dexter Cox, a student majoring in chemistry and physics, spent his summer a little differently than most of his peers. He spent ten weeks in a laboratory trying to make something that’s 99.9% air.
As part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP), Cox...
Wednesday, Dec 5, 2018 — The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education fights for injustice with Knowledge
Stephen Gaies wasn’t planning to lead the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education (CHGE) at UNI, but the idea of creating a permanent center was far from the minds of any of the original ad hoc committee members whose initial goal was to organize a...
Wednesday, Dec 5, 2018 — Alumnus Matthew Boucher ’04 has long balanced interests in music and science, a background that is helping him at his new job at NASA. As an undergrad student at UNI, he double-majored in both music and physics. Boucher says that his interest in both subjects was encouraged by all of his professors. “Having the support to follow my passions...