Five UNI faculty members and one graduate student — representing fields from music and education to engineering and astrochemistry — have been awarded funding and support to advance early‑stage ideas through the university’s Intellectual Property and Innovation Disclosure Competition IV.
The University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art and the UNI Department of Art & Graphic Design are proud to jointly present the 2026 Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, scheduled to run from March 23 through April 16, 2026.
The University of Northern Iowa is launching new academic programs designed to prepare students for careers in one of the fastest-growing and most transformative areas of today’s workforce, artificial intelligence.
The series aims to generate excitement about manufacturing careers and highlight programs preparing the next generation of industry leaders. "It’s really getting that hands-on experience, and the University of Northern Iowa is doing a great job of that.”
The University of Northern Iowa has received approval from the Iowa Board of Regents to move forward with two academic restructuring actions that reflect UNI’s ongoing commitment to strengthen the humanities and expand interdisciplinary public service education.
When Daniel Chapilliquén arrived on campus at the University of Northern Iowa, he brought with him years of engineering preparation, international perspective and the ambition to build solutions that solve real-world problems.
For some UNI-educated band directors, attending the Tallcorn Jazz Festival with their students is a full-circle moment, as many of them helped organize and execute the event back in their college days.
