CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – The University of Northern Iowa School of Music will hold its second annual New Music Festival March 10 to 12. The free public festival will feature guest composer and performer Molly Joyce, and accordionist Branko Džinović as well as UNI faculty and student performers.
A $300,000 grant from Waterloo Schools Foundation will fund the expansion of a thriving partnership between the Waterloo Community School District (WCSD) and the University of Northern Iowa (UNI).
Teach Waterloo aims to diversify the K-12 teacher workforce in support of student success – research has shown that having a teacher of color in a classroom is associated with higher achievement and increases the likelihood that students of color complete high school and attend college.
TheatreUNI will present Dominique Morisseau’s “Blood at the Root,” directed by the UNI Department of Theatre’s first Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Margaret Kemp, starting March 2.
Choreography will be provided by Destiny (Tru) Cyrus and original composition will be provided by LYRIKALTMG.
Certain performances will be followed by an audience response discussion. Those dates are March 3, March 5, and March 9.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - The University of Northern Iowa Additive Manufacturing Center has changed its name to the UNI Foundry 4.0 Center as it enters a new period of technological advancements. The center is housed at the TechWorks Campus in Waterloo.
For the last eight years, the center has been a leader in bringing additive technologies to the metal casting industry. During that time, multiple advancements were made in the technology and the materials used for 3D sand printing that drastically reduced the cost of production.
The University of Northern Iowa’s online master’s in education programs ranked among the top 20% nationally in a 2022 U.S. News and World Report review released today.
The UNI programs ranked 53 among 322 programs for master’s degrees, climbing 19 places from 2021.
These performances will feature the UNI Opera Ensemble under the direction of Richard Gammon, director, and Korey Barrett, vocal coach, and will include the Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra led by Erik Rohde, conductor.
The new year brings a re-envisioned future for the University of Northern Iowa’s most industry-focused department – solidifying UNI’s commitment to bolstering Iowa’s workforce in some of the fastest growing fields.
Worth Brewing in Northwood, Iowa just became the 11th brewery in Iowa to achieve the Gold Certification from the Iowa Green Brewery Certification Program (IGBC).
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, in association with the UNI Department of Art, will present the 2022 Department of Art Faculty Exhibition from Thursday, Jan. 20 through Friday, Feb. 25. The opening reception begins at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 26, in the Kamerick Art Building (KAB) south lobby.
A two-year, national effort led by the University of Northern Iowa, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, and Teacher Education Council of State Colleges and Universities has resulted in federal legislation introduced this week that creates a future vision for the federal role in educator preparation.
