August 2008
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| August |
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| 23 |
Panthers on Main |
Main Street, CF |
| 25 | Fall Classes Begin | |
| 30 | UNI football at BYU | Provo, UT |
| September |
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| 4 | Bash With Ben | Campanile Plaza |
| 15 | UNI Career Fair | UNI-Dome |
| 20 | Family Weekend FB vs. South Dakota State |
UNI |
| 26 | Russell Hall Rededication |
Russell Hall |
| 27 | School of Music Alumni Banquet | GBPAC |
| 29 | Chicago Student-Alumni Social | Goose Island Clybourn |
| October | ||
| 2 | UNI vs. Nicholls State ESPN U 6:35 p.m. |
UNI-Dome |
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10-11 |
Homecoming '08 - Pump Up the Purple Reunions: Middle Level Education Baseball Men’s and Women’s Swimming Glee Club |
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| 10 | Alumni Golf Outing | Pheasant Ridge |
| 10 | Heritage Honours Reception 5:30 p.m. | GBPAC |
| 11 | Homecoming FB vs. Ill. State 4:05 p.m. | UNI Dome |
| 11 | Volleyball vs. Bradley 7:30 p.m. | McLeod |
| 10-11 | Delta Delta Phi/Gamma Phi Beta and Alpha Chi Epsilon/SAE ‘64-’71 Alumni Reunion |
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| 17 | Gilchrist Hall Rededication | Gilchrist Hall |
Every Friday is Panther Friday!
Mark you calendars for 2008 Homecoming on Oct. 10-11
Click here to learn more or to register for alumni events.
What else is happening at UNI? Check out the campus calendar at https://access.uni.edu/acal/ and the alumni calendar at www.unialum.org. Track the Panthers at http://unipanthers.cstv.com.
Membership Matters!
Your UNI Alumni Association supports dozens of services, activities and programs. Reunions, socials, alumni recognition, student engagement, career advice networks, legislative advocacy, helping with recruitment of future Panthers and much more are financed by your membership. On top of that, there are great tangible benefits like discounts, UNI stuff and special events.
We're working to strengthen UNI. And a stronger UNI means your degree holds more value, instantly identifying you as a person with a great education from a great university.
Take a few minutes to think about the value of your UNI degree - and join a growing number of alumni who express their support by becoming a member of the UNI Alumni Association. If you're not sure if you're a member- e-mail holly.johnson@uni.edu.
Visit www.unialum.org/membership and click on "Join Now" to begin the membership process. There's never been a better time to join.
Gilchrist Hall, home to the Follon Student Services Center, is open for business!
The Follon SSC is UNI's one-stop-shop for student services, including financial aid, student employment, registration and records, billing, advising, u-cards, etc. See a complete list of offices now housed in Gilchrist Hall at http://www.uni.edu/pubrel/gilchrist.shtml
Parking deck underway
Demolition of the parking lot and the remaining houses has been completed at the Commons Lot. For photos, visit http://www.uni.edu/pubrel/newsroom/photos.shtml
Fiscal Year '08 finds jump in external funding
UNI received $36,771,923 in external funding -- a 26 percent increase from the previous fiscal year. Read more here.
UNI College Portrait
The College Portrait provides consistent, comparable and transparent information on the characteristics of colleges and universities about their students, cost of attendance, student engagement with the learning process and core educational outcomes. College Portrait is coordinated by the Voluntary System of Accountability, a collaborative effort among the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and the public higher education community. Read UNI's Portrait at http://www.uni.edu/collegeportrait/UNI_College_Portrait.pdf.
Grant allows UNI to expand teacher education program
A $430,000 grant will help UNI expand a teacher education program statewide. The 2+2 teacher education program, designed for those whose family priorities or schedules do not allow enrollment in traditional college programs, is already in place in Carroll, Ankeny and Boone. The grant is provided by the Fund for the Improvement of Education Awards Program. The money will allow school officials to look at expanding to Sioux City, Keokuk, Muscatine, Clinton, Dubuque, Peosta, Calmar, Ottumwa and Mason City.
Russell Hall Rededication and celebration
September 26 and 27 marks a significant weekend at UNI. You're invited to the School of Music "Carnaval," a celebration and rededication of the renovated Russell Hall. The weekend activities include the Russell Hall rededication, the 27th Annual Scholarship Benefit Concert, an alumni banquet dinner and a faculty, alumni, guest and friends concert. Visit www.uni.edu/music or contact Caroline Boehmer for details and ticket information.
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Applications for Teaching in Iowa Incentive Award now available
December 2007 and May 2008 teaching graduates are encouraged to apply for the 2008 Teaching in Iowa Incentive Award. To be eligible, graduates must have financed their education at least in part by student loans and have accepted their first teaching position in Iowa by September 2. Anticipated award amount is between $2,000 and $4,000. For information or to submit an application, visit http://www.unialum.org/tiiia.shtml
Share the pride!
If you know someone who would benefit from the UNI experience, let us know! E-mail admissions@uni.edu or call 800-772-2037 or locally 319-273-2281. Visit www.uni.edu/admissions for more information!
One in every garage
Purchasing a University of Northern Iowa License Plate provides funding for university scholarships. Display your Panther Pride everywhere you drive!
Disaster Diploma Replacement Program
The UNI Registrar's Office and the UNI Alumni Association have teamed up to offer free replacement diplomas to alumni who lost theirs in a natural disaster. Alumni interested in obtaining a replacement diploma can make a request by stopping by the Alumni House on West 23rd Street, e-mailing mark.jastorff@uni.edu or calling 319-273-2171. A PDF version of the form is at www.unialum.org.
Be a membership ambassador!
If you know of a business that would like to offer a member discount to UNI Alumni, contact Holly at holly.johnson@uni.edu or call 319-271-6409. If you own or manage a business that may be interested in offering a service or benefit, let us know!
Interested in knowing more about the UNI Alumni Association membership program? Visit www.unialum.org.
Army Captain Antony Thompson '95, has spent the past year building a better future for the people of Iraq, literally.
Thompson, a native of Waterloo, is the engineer construction officer for the 300th Military Police Brigade. The brigade is in charge of detainee operations at four locations in Iraq. Detainee operations require specific construction requirements, and Thompson coordinates and provides them.
A small segment of the detainee population about 350 of the approximately 21,000, are juveniles. One of Thompson's primary missions is to plan and coordinate base camp engineering projects to build and improve their facilities. Currently, these juveniles are housed on the other side of the base from their school facility, known as Dar al Hikmah (House of Wisdom), where they attend daily classes and play sports. Thompson is designing a construction project to house the juveniles at the school facility, which will enable them to spend less time in transit, and more time in the classroom and on the soccer fields.
During a typical day, Thompson develops construction projects and visits numerous sites. "We're constantly upgrading these facilities," Thompson said. "I'm honored to have this mission and know that I'm contributing to a cutting edge operation. It's not outside the realm of possibility that right now, Iraqi teachers in our facilities are educating some of the future leaders of Iraq. I want to give them the best resources we can provide."
Back at home, Thompson is an Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) engineer officer with the 88th Regional Readiness Command in Minneapolis, where he manages Army Reserve real estate and facilities in a six-state region. Thompson has been in the Army for 14 years, getting his start in UNI ROTC.
"Both UNI and the ROTC program got my Army career off to a great start, I was fortunate to be exposed to outstanding leaders, educators and mentors in and out of the classroom," Thompson said.
Thompson looks forward to coming back home this fall to relax, hunt and fish. To his friends, family and the American public he says, "THANK YOU! for all the support you have shown for our military service members since this conflict started, we are the best trained, equipped and maintained fighting force in the history of the world, but that would mean absolutely nothing without the support of our friends, families and the American people."
UNI 'crazy college room' to air on HGTV
Nearly a year after the Jungle Adventure room in Shull Hall made national news, UNI alumnus Nathan Spiva will see his old home away from home on one of cable's top-rated networks. "What's With that Crazy College Room?" airs on HGTV airs at 3 p.m., Friday, Aug. 29.
The Jungle Adventure room in 146 Shull Hall was constructed over Thanksgiving weekend 2006, complete with foliage, crates, a tent, an ape, survival gear and special-effects lighting and sound. You can check out video at www.myspace.com/WPtheme.
Since graduating in December 2007 with a B.A. in history, Spiva returned to Davenport and recently started a job as loss prevention manager for KMART/Sears Holding Company.
VanSickel among the best of the best
David B. VanSickel '74 has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America® 2007. He is a shareholder of the Davis Brown Law Firm in Des Moines, practicing in the business division. Best Lawyers is the oldest peer-review publication in the legal profession.
UGA first for UNI alumna
Mary Ann Johnson '79, a foods and nutrition professor who has developed research-based programs focused on helping older adults eat nutritious meals, has been named the first Bill and June Flatt Professor in Foods and Nutrition in the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences. Among her awards, Mary Ann has been named a Lilly Teaching Fellow, is recipient of the Future Leaders Award from the International Life Sciences Institute-Nutrition Foundation, received a Gamma Sigma Delta Faculty Research Award, and a Mead Johnson Award from the American Institute of Nutrition. Dr. Johnson also served as graduate coordinator for the Department of Foods and Nutrition. She has been the major professor for more than 30 graduate students and mentored many more.
Want to know where to watch the Panthers? Check out the list of game watch sites at http://unialum.org/events/gamewatch.shtml
Your favorite spot not listed and you want to let fellow Panthers know where the place to be Purple is? E-mail Connie at Constance.Hansen@uni.edu.
Volleyball opens in FLA
UNI volleyball will open its 2008 season in Boca Raton at the Florida Atlantic Invitational, August 29-30. UNI has posted 10 straight seasons of 20 or more wins, with eight NCAA tournament appearances. For ticket information contact 1-866-FAU-OWLS.
Soccer opens in the Twin Cities
The UNI women's soccer squad hits the road to face Minnesota on Friday, August 22. The Panthers and Golden Gophers clash at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium; the game kicks off at 7 p.m. For ticket information contact the Minnesota Athletics Ticket Office at (612) 624-8080, 1-800 U-GOPHER or e-mail go4tix@umn.edu
Farley’s Panthers open at BYU
UNI opens its season at #17 BYU in Provo on August 30. The Panthers are coming off a record-setting season including a #1 national ranking for most of the season and a perfect conference record.
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