UNI NEWS SERVICES – Robert Sales is no stranger to the limelight at the University of Northern Iowa. The Communication major was a fixture at UNI Panther football and basketball games selling doughnuts from his year-round concession stand, Rob’s Mini Donuts and in the halls mentoring other entrepreneurial students in the UNI John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (UNI JPEC).
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Monday, October 19, 2020
While Panthers have done a great job of working together to slow the spread of COVID-19, case levels nationally are expected to begin rising as we enter the fall and winter months. Having a frank conversation about safety precautions is a good way to ensure that everyone in your residence, whether on or off campus, stays safe.
We reached out to some UNI public health students to ask how they’ve handled it.
Monday, October 12, 2020
UNI NEWS SERVICES – The University of Northern Iowa welcomes the community to a virtual discussion that will explore the intersections of race, social justice and policing in the United States and Cedar Valley.
Monday, October 12, 2020
UNI NEWS SERVICES - The University of Northern Iowa announced today that it is deepening its partnership with the Meskwaki Nation by creating new scholarships, reinstating a summer school program and jointly developing a statement acknowledging that the university campus sits on the traditional homeland of the Meskwaki and other Indigenous peoples.
Thursday, October 8, 2020
UNI NEWS SERVICES - UNI’s Strategic Marketing Services and the Institute for Decision Making is partnering with United Ways of Iowa to launch a survey aimed at better understanding the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on individual Iowa households.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
UNI NEWS SERVICES - The University of Northern Iowa is pleased to announce that graduate Cade Olmstead has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Award in philosophy for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Olmstead, who received the award during his senior year double majoring in philosophy and sociology at UNI this spring, will travel to Slovenia this winter to study and conduct research at the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts and the University of Ljubljana as part of a project to study modern subjectivity and its relation to contemporary political discourse.
Monday, September 28, 2020
UNI NEWS SERVICES – The UNI Gallery of Art will present a Zoom session lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 30 by Dianna Clise, paper conservator from the Midwest Art Conservation Center (MACC).
Clise’s lecture will highlight the conservation efforts behind seven works in the UNI Permanent Art Collection, including art from Grant Wood, Rembrandt van Rijn and Henri Matisse. The lecture can be viewed on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88601336112.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
UNI NEWS SERVICES - The University of Northern Iowa is partnering with the University of Iowa to bring a seven-week course to local innovators as part of a continued effort to build upon Iowa’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Venture School, a premier statewide program for entrepreneurs developed by the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (Iowa JPEC), is coming to Cedar Falls in October.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
UNI NEWS SERVICE – The University of Northern Iowa’s Department of Languages and Literatures will host a virtual lecture as part of its 2019-2020 Hearst Lecture Series, titled “Borders/Crossings.”
The upcoming lecture will feature guest speaker Luis Urrea, a Mexican-American poet, novelist and essayist.
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Americans are facing an election year like no other. With COVID-19 still on the rise in many states, issues such as polling location safety and absentee ballots are rising to the forefront like never before. In Black Hawk County, the election will be overseen by Grant Veeder, who has served as the county auditor since 1988. In this conversation, Veeder, who graduated from UNI in 1974 and 1979 with English and history degrees, discusses what students need to know to vote this year and how the county is working to ensure a safe and fair election.