The first named faculty fellowship in the Department of Marketing & Entrepreneurship was fully funded and will serve as a lasting reminder of one of the most celebrated professors and mentors at UNI’s College of Business.
Professor Amy Nielsen of the University of Northern Iowa’s Department of Special Education will be part of a cohort of 36 higher education professionals from across the country participating in the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) put on by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU).
Projected on the wall is a slightly fuzzy video recording of a figure whose steadiness is palpable through the static of the technology. It is the first sight one views upon entering the Hearst Center. Across the video projection is a plum-colored mural announcing “Eddie Bowles’s Blues.”
Executive Director of the School Administrators of Iowa (SAI) Roark Horn will be joining the University of Northern Iowa College of Education faculty in fall 2022 as the Pomerantz Endowed Professorship in Educational Excellence and instructor of superintendency.
A team of three University of Northern Iowa faculty members have been awarded a one-year grant of $66,682 from the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program to participate in a Noyce Capacity Project that aims to address the national need to develop an Elementary Master STEM Teacher Leader program in Iowa.
John Wiles, associate professor of choral conducting, has been upholding a strong legacy of choral excellence at the UNI School of Music for the past 12 years.
Describe how your educational background and employment experience led you to UNI.
I've worked in libraries since I was in high school and throughout college so becoming a librarian just made sense. My first professional position was in South Carolina for a couple of years and for twelve years I was in Wisconsin. At both places I gained a lot of experience as a general reference and instruction librarian teaching a lot of "one-shot" library instruction classes.
In her relatively short time at UNI, Dheryta Jaisinghani has already made a considerable impact on her students’ lives — finding unique, new ways to involve them in research, and teaching them to be better scientists along the way.
Professor Amy Nielsen of the University of Northern Iowa’s 
