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The University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls, Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa

Cedar Falls is a city in Black Hawk County, Iowa, Iowa, United States, and it is home to one of Iowa's three public universities, the University of Northern Iowa....
, is a state-supported university that offers more than 120 majors across the colleges of Business Administration, Education
Education

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, Humanities
Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
 and Fine Art
Fine art

Fine art describes any art form developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than utility. This type of art is often expressed in the production of art objects using Visual arts and performing art forms, including painting, sculpture, dance, theatre, architecture, photography and printmaking....
s, Natural Science
Natural science

In science, the term natural science refers to a methodological naturalism approach to the study of the universe, which is understood as obeying rules or law of nature origin....
s, and Social
Social

Social refers to a characteristic of living organisms . It always refers to the interaction of organisms with other organisms and to their collective co-existence, irrespective of whether they are aware of it or not, and irrespective of whether the interaction is voluntary or involuntary....
 and Behavioral sciences, and graduate college.

The Fall 2007 enrollment is 12,609, including 11,010 undergraduate students and 1,599 graduate students.






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The University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls, Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa

Cedar Falls is a city in Black Hawk County, Iowa, Iowa, United States, and it is home to one of Iowa's three public universities, the University of Northern Iowa....
, is a state-supported university that offers more than 120 majors across the colleges of Business Administration, Education
Education

File:Inukshuk Monterrey 1.jpgEducation can be seen as a product or a process and considered in a broad sense or a technical sense. According to philosophy of education George F....
, Humanities
Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
 and Fine Art
Fine art

Fine art describes any art form developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than utility. This type of art is often expressed in the production of art objects using Visual arts and performing art forms, including painting, sculpture, dance, theatre, architecture, photography and printmaking....
s, Natural Science
Natural science

In science, the term natural science refers to a methodological naturalism approach to the study of the universe, which is understood as obeying rules or law of nature origin....
s, and Social
Social

Social refers to a characteristic of living organisms . It always refers to the interaction of organisms with other organisms and to their collective co-existence, irrespective of whether they are aware of it or not, and irrespective of whether the interaction is voluntary or involuntary....
 and Behavioral sciences, and graduate college.

The Fall 2007 enrollment is 12,609, including 11,010 undergraduate students and 1,599 graduate students. Ninety-two percent of its students are from the State of Iowa
Iowa

The State of Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland." It is bordered by Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Nebraska and South Dakota to the west, and Missouri to the south....
, in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.

UNI has consistently been named one of the "Best in the Midwest" in the Princeton Review Best 351 College Rankings guide, and has ranked second in Midwest top public comprehensive universities by U.S. News and World Report for eleven consecutive years. UNI's accounting program has consistently ranked in the top 10 universities in the nation for the pass rate of first-time candidates on the CPA Exam.

At UNI class sizes are generally small (fewer than 30 students) and are mostly taught by faculty, not teaching assistants. Tenured and tenure-track faculty teach 75 percent of UNI's classes.

For students interested in studying abroad, UNI is ranked fourth in the nation for the total number of students who study abroad among master's degree institutions, according to Open Doors 2002, the annual report on international education published by the Institute of International Education.

History

The University of Northern Iowa was founded as a result of two influential forces of the nineteenth century. First, Iowa wanted to care for orphans of its veterans, and secondly, Iowa needed a public teacher training institution
Institution

Institutions are social structure and social mechanism of social order and cooperation governing the behavior of a set of individuals. Institutions are identified with a social purpose and permanence, transcending individual human lives and intentions, and with the making and enforcing of rules governing cooperative human behavior....
. In 1876, when Iowa no longer needed an orphan home, legislators Edward G. Miller and H.C. Hemenway started the Iowa State Normal School.

The school’s first building opened in 1869 and was known as Central Hall. The building contained classrooms, common areas, and a living facility for most of the students. It was also a home to the college
College

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’s first principle, James Cleland Gilchrist. The building was the heart and soul of the school, allowing students to study courses of two-year, three-year, and four-year degrees. In 1965, a fire destroyed Central Hall, and school faculty and citizens donated over $5000 to start building Gilchrist Hall.

The school has been known under the following names:
  • Iowa State Normal School, 1876-1909
  • Iowa State Teachers College, 1909-1961
  • State College of Iowa, 1961-1967
  • University of Northern Iowa, 1967-present


Student Newspapers:
  • Students Offering 1878 - 1884
  • Normal Eyte 1892 - 1911
  • College Eye 1911 - 1967
  • Northern Iowan 1967 - present


Academics

The Culture and Intensive English Program is an intensive program in English for non-native speakers. It is designed to prepare students for academic work at the undergraduate or graduate degree level

University of Northern Iowa Colleges include:


Educational Opportunities

The University of Northern Iowa has a very active program of allowing students to pursue educational opportunities outside the state of Iowa and also the country.

Liberal Arts
UNI has implemented a Liberal Arts Core(LAC) in order to provide a great base education for every student on campus.

LAC Categories
Category 1 Core Competencies
Category 2 Civilizations and Cultures
Category 3 Fine Arts, Literature, Philosophy and Religion
Category 4 Natural Science and technology
Category 5 Social Science
Category 6 Capstone Experience


Study Abroad
UNI provides an opportunity for the students to study in 40+ countries and select from over 500 programs. In addition to semester and academic year programs students may choose to take part in summer and short term programs abroad. A number of study abroad programs are exchanges in which students pay UNI tuition to attend the overseas partner schools. UNI also offers research internship and student teaching opportunities abroad. Most programs available offer courses in English. Students interested in improving foreign language skills have many program choices available to them through UNI Study Abroad programs. UNI Study Abroad Center also offers scholarships to qualified students studying overseas.

North American Review


The university is the publisher of The North American Review
North American Review

The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States. Founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale and others, it was published continuously until 1940, when publication was suspended due to World War II....
 (called the NAR), a celebrated literary magazine that began originally in Boston in 1815. Its past editors have included James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell was an United States Romanticism poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets....
, Charles Eliot Norton
Charles Eliot Norton

Charles Eliot Norton, was a leading United States author, social critic, and professor of art. He was a militant idealist, a progressive social reformer, and a liberal activist whom many of his contemporaries considered the most cultivated man in the United States....
, and Henry Adams
Henry Adams

Henry Brooks Adams was an United States novelist, journalist, historian and academia. He is best-known for his autobiography book, The Education of Henry Adams....
; while among its past contributors are Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
, Henry James
Henry James

Henry James, Order of Merit , son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an United States author....
, Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad was a Polish novelist, writing in English. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, despite his not having learned to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties ....
, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman

Walter Whitman was an United States Poetry of the United States, essayist, journalism, and humanism. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and literary realism, incorporating both views in his works....
, Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five , Cat's Cradle , and Breakfast of Champions .He was also known for his Humanism beliefs and being honorary president of the American Humanist Association....
, Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is an United States author. Raised in rural, working-class New York, Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction....
, Guy Davenport
Guy Davenport

Guy Mattison Davenport was an United States writer, translator, illustrator, Painting, intellectual, and teacher....
 and Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Order of Canada is a Canada author, poet, literary criticism, feminist and activism. She is among the most-honored authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C....
. In 1968, when the magazine was purchased by UNI, Robley Wilson was appointed editor, a position he continued in until his retirement in 2000. The current editors are Grant Tracey and Vince Gotera.

In S. Duperray and R. Vidaling, Front Page: Covers of the Twentieth Century (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003) the NAR is featured with Paris Match
Paris Match

Paris Match is a France weekly magazine. It covers major national and international news along with celebrity lifestyle features. It was founded in 1949 by the industrialist Jean Prouvost....
, The New Yorker
The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an United States magazine that publishes reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Starting as a weekly in the mid-1920s, the magazine is now published 47 times per year, with five of these issues covering two-week spans....
, Vogue
Vogue (magazine)

Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in eighteen countries by Cond? Nast Publications. Each month, Vogue publishes a magazine addressing topics of fashion, life and design....
 and twenty-four other famous magazines, and is described as being "a real institution in the United States, as much for its quality as its longevity." Since its acquisition by UNI, that book continues, the magazine has "distinguished itself" by winning a long list of prizes, both in literature and design. It has twice won the National Magazine Award for Fiction and was a finalist for that award five times; placed stories in the annual O. Henry anthologies four times, in the Pushcart Prize annuals nine times, in Best American Short Stories eight times, in Best American Essays twice, in Best American Sports Writing and Best American Travel Writing. As for its graphics, the NAR has three times been represented in Communication Arts illustration annual, twice in the Society of Publication Designers' annual, four times in the Print regional design annual, and twice won the "Ozzie" gold award for best cover among consumer magazines with a circulation of less than 100,000.

Teaching and Research Greenhouse

The University of Northern Iowa Teaching and Research Greenhouse is a greenhouse
Greenhouse

A greenhouse is a building where plants are cultivated.A greenhouse is a structure with a glass or plastic roof and frequently glass or plastic walls; it heats up because incoming solar radiation from the sun warms plants, soil, and other things inside the building....
 complex incorporating botanical garden
Botanical garden

Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes. Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material....
s for research and education. It is located on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa

Cedar Falls is a city in Black Hawk County, Iowa, Iowa, United States, and it is home to one of Iowa's three public universities, the University of Northern Iowa....
.

The greenhouse contains plants from many ecotypes, including 250 tropical plants, an extensive collection of arid climate plants, and the Aquatic Learning Center

Athletics

The school's mascot
Mascot

The term mascot ? defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck ? colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or Brand....
 is the Panther
Panthera

Panthera is a genus of the family Felidae , which contains four well-known living species: the Tiger, the Lion, the Jaguar, and the Leopard....
. They participate in the NCAA
National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and University in the United States ....
's Division I (I-FCS for football) in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and in the Missouri Valley Conference
Missouri Valley Conference

The Missouri Valley Conference is a list of college athletic conferences whose members are located in the midwestern United States. The conference participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I....
 for Women's and Men's Basketball and all other sports. The major arena on campus is the UNI-Dome
UNI-Dome

UNI-Dome is a multi-purpose stadium on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. It opened in 1976 as the home of the UNI Panthers basketball and American football teams....
 currently the home of the football team. The Dome also serves as a venue for many local concerts, high school football playoffs, trade shows, and other events. In 2006, the University opened a new arena, the McLeod Center
McLeod Center

McLeod Center is a 7,000-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The arena opened November 18, 2006 with a volleyball game against Bradley University....
, to serve as the home for several athletic programs, including men's and women's basketball.

UNI Athletics has enjoyed great success lately with the Men's basketball team competing in the NCAA tournament three consecutive times in 2004, 2005 and 2006. The football team has been ranked in the I-AA (FCS) top 25 almost every year for the last two decades. The team appeared in the I-AA championship game in 2005, only to lose a close game to the Appalachian State Mountaineers. During 2007, the team was ranked #1 in the country by the TSN FCS poll for several weeks. The football team went undefeated in 2007 with an 11-0 record, a first for any school in the 23 year history of the Gateway conference. In 2001 and 2002 the volleyball team reached the NCAA Sweet 16 round, and in 2006 made it to the second round, and has competed in the tournament numerous times. The track team is also very successful (usually ranked in the top 25), as is the wrestling and volleyball teams.

The University of Northern Iowa wrestling team won the NCAA Division I national championship as ISTC in 1949 and NCAA Division II national championships in 1975 and 1978. In 1977 the women's softball team won the AIAW national championship.

The University of Northern Iowa is one of only two schools in the history of college football to have both an Offensive and Defensive MVP in the NFL. Bryce Paup
Bryce Paup

Bryce Eric Paup is a former American football defensive end and linebacker who played for the Green Bay Packers , Buffalo Bills , Jacksonville Jaguars , Minnesota Vikings 2000 and 2002....
 and Kurt Warner
Kurt Warner

Kurtis Eugene "Kurt" Warner is an American football quarterback who currently plays for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 1994....
 both are alumns and both have won the MVP award.

Traditions


There are many traditions at UNI but none as popular as campaniling. The UNI campanile comes alive Friday night of Homecoming week each year. At the stroke of midnight, students flock around the tower to sneak a kiss from a long time lover or someone you just met. This tradition has lived on since shortly after construction had finished with the tower. Back in the 1920s and beyond, there were very few men on campus. The tradition then was that the men would call a random woman to come meet them at the campanile. The men would hide in the bushes and if he did not like what he saw, he would leave her waiting and go back and call another random woman instead. A second tradition has to do with the women. It was said if you did not get a kiss at midnight by a guy, you were not considered a full-fledged co-ed. This trend faded out for a little while but made a comeback in 1979 by the Alumni Association.

There is also a tradition of wearing purple on the Friday of Homecoming. The entire city is encouraged to show support for UNI, along with wearing "UNI:Purple for Life" buttons, or any others they have. It promotes a sense of unity and school pride in the community.

UNI Presidents


# President Start of term End of term
1 James Cleland Gilchrist 1876 1886
2 Homer Horatio Seerley 1886 1928
3 Orval Ray Latham 1928 1940
4 Malcolm Poyer Price 1940 1950
5 James William Maucker 1951 1970
6 John Joseph Kamerick 1970 1983
7 Constantine William Curris 1983 1995
8 Robert D. Koob 1995 2006
9 Benjamin Allen 2006 present


Campus Buildings

Uni Schindleredu
Uni Lang Hall
  • Baker Hall - Faculty offices. Formerly an all male dormitory
  • Bartlett Hall - Coed Dormitory.
  • Bender Hall - Coed Dormitory(Towers Complex)
  • Begeman Hall - Newly Renovated Physics Building - opened October 5th 2007
  • Biology Research Complex
  • Communication Arts Center - Location of radio station KUNI (FM)
    KUNI (FM)

    KUNI is a radio station owned and operated by the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. It is the National Public Radio outlet for Eastern Iowa....
    's studios.
  • Campbell Hall - Coed (formerly female only) dormitory
  • Curris Business Building
  • Center for Energy & Environmental Education
  • Center for Educational Technology
  • Central Intermediate School - Located in Waterloo
  • Center for Urban Education - Located in Waterloo
  • Dancer Hall - Coed Dormitory (Towers Complex)
  • Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center
  • Gilchrist Hall - Administration building. Closed until 2008 due to arson fire during homecoming, Fall 2005
  • Greenhouse Annex - Part of the McCollum Science Hall
  • Hagemann Hall - All Female Dormitory (Part of Quads Complex)
  • Industrial Technology Center - Academic Building
  • Innovative Teaching and Technology Center - Previously known as the East Gymnasium. Former Women's Gym. Remodeling was completed late Spring 2006
  • Kamerick Art Building - Academic Building
  • Latham Hall - Academic Building
  • Lawther Hall - All female dormitory
  • Rod Library
  • Lang Hall - Academic Building housing the communication departments.
  • Maucker Student Union
  • McLeod Center - Home of UNI Men's and Women's Basketball, Volleyball, and Wrestling
  • McCollum Science Hall - Academic Building housing the science departments.
  • Museum
  • Native Roadside Vegetation Center
  • Noehren Hall - Coed Dormitory (Part of Quads Complex)
  • Price Laboratory School - K-12 School Run in Conjunction with the University
  • Redeker Center - Center of Quads Complex. Houses UNI Department of Residence and Piazza Dining Center
  • Residence on the Hill (ROTH) - Coed Suite Style Residence Hall for Upperclassmen
  • Rider Hall - Coed (formerly male only) Dormitory (Part of the Quads Complex)
  • Russell Hall - Academic building and auditorium housing the Music departments (Currently under renovation until Fall 2008)
  • Sabin Hall - Academic Building
  • Schindler Education Center - Academic Building housing the education departments
  • Seerley Hall - Home of the Office of the President. Also an Academic Building, home to the History department
  • Shull Hall - Coed (formerly male only) Dormitory, recently remodeled for upperclassmen only (Part of Quads Complex)
  • Student Health Center-Student Health Clinic, Counseling Center, Student Disability Services, Violence Intervention Services.
  • Student Services Center - Attached to Bartlett Hall, formerly known as East Bartlett
  • Strayer-Wood Theatre - Theatre that also houses the theatre department of UNI. Home of Theatre UNI
  • Towers Center - Home of the Rialto Dining Center
  • UNI-Dome - Stadium with seating for 16,000+. Home of UNI Football
  • Wellness Recreation Center
  • Wright Hall - Academic Building housing the Mathematics and Computer Sciences Departments.
  • West Gymnasium - Former home of UNI Women's Basketball. Women's volleyball and Men's Wrestling. Current Practice Facility


School Songs


UNI Fight
Hail our Panthers, we are ever loyal,
Showing strength and unity.
As you rise, we firmly stand behind you,
Urge you on to victory.
Rah! Rah! Rah!
As you lead us on to fame and honor,
Fight! Fight! Fight! will be our cry.
So give us a yell, OH!!!
The Purple and the Gold,
Victory for UNI!

(Bridge)
U-N-I Fight! U-N-I Fight!

Hail our Panthers, we are ever loyal,
Showing strength and unity.
As you rise, we firmly stand behind you,
Urge you on to victory.
Rah! Rah! Rah!
As you lead us on to fame and honor,
Fight! Fight! Fight! will be our cry.
So give us a yell, OH!!!
The Purple and the Gold,
Victory for UNI!

Alma Mater
UNI O Alma Mater
Hear our voices now in song;
Hail to thee, O state of plenty,
Thou has raised it proud and strong.

True in spirit, strong in knowledge
UNI, we sing our homage.
Hail to thee, O Alma Mater
Our tomorrows shall be thine.

From the hallowed halls of learning,
Rising from the fertile land;
Guide to fame thy sons and daughters,
In the pattern on thy hand.

Notable alumni


  • Dorothy Jean Ray
    Dorothy Jean Ray

    Dorothy Jean Ray is an author and Anthropology best-known for her study of Alaska Natives art and culture.In addition to a number of published books, she has had articles and papers published in Alaska History, Alaska Journal, Alaska magazine, American Indian Art, Arctic Anthropology, Journal of the West, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and o...
    , anthropologist
  • William P. Robinson
    William P. Robinson

    William P. "Bill" Robinson, known by students affectionately as "B-Rob", is the current president of Whitworth University, a private Christian liberal arts college located in Spokane, Washington, Washington....
    , President of Whitworth University
    Whitworth University

    Whitworth University is a Private school Christian liberal arts college located in Spokane, Washington, Washington state that offers bachelor's degree and master's degrees in a variety of academic disciplines....
  • Robert John Hibbs
    Robert John Hibbs

    Robert John Hibbs was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration?the Medal of Honor?for his actions in the Vietnam War....
    , Medal of Honor
    Medal of Honor

    The Medal of Honor is the highest Awards and decorations of the United States military awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed on a member of the United States armed forces who distinguishes himself "conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action...
     recipient, 1966, Vietnam war
    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina Wars, the Vietnam Conflict, or often in Vietnam the American War occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959 to April 30, 1975....
    .
  • Nick Nurse
    Nick Nurse

    Nick Nurse is the current head coach of NBA Development League expansion franchise Iowa Energy. Most recently he was the famed United States coach of British Basketball League team Brighton Bears....
    , basketball coach
  • John Root, architect
  • Bryce Paup
    Bryce Paup

    Bryce Eric Paup is a former American football defensive end and linebacker who played for the Green Bay Packers , Buffalo Bills , Jacksonville Jaguars , Minnesota Vikings 2000 and 2002....
    , 1995 NFL Defensive Player of the Year,4 time Pro Bowler
  • Eddie Berlin
    Eddie Berlin

    Edward Walton Berlin is an American football wide receiver, currently a free agent in the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the fifth round of the 2001 NFL Draft out of the University of Northern Iowa....
    , dominating football player in the Gateway Conference and the Tennessee Titans
    Tennessee Titans

    The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. They are members of the AFC South of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
    .
  • Mike Furrey
    Mike Furrey

    Michael Thomas Furrey is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2000....
    , NFL wide receiver for the Detroit Lions
    Detroit Lions

    The Detroit Lions are an American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in downtown Detroit....
    , and one of the few players to have started a game on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball (as a free safety).
  • Kurt Warner
    Kurt Warner

    Kurtis Eugene "Kurt" Warner is an American football quarterback who currently plays for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 1994....
    , two-time National Football League
    National Football League

    The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....
     MVP, MVP of Super Bowl XXXIV
    Super Bowl XXXIV

    Super Bowl XXXIV featured the National Football Conference champion St. Louis Rams and the American Football Conference champion Tennessee Titans in an American football game to decide the National Football League champion for the 1999 NFL season....
  • John Dinger, U.S. Ambassador
  • Joey Woody
    Joey Woody

    Joey Woody is an American track and field athlete in the 400 meter hurdles event.Woody attended the University of Northern Iowa, where he was the 1997 NCAA champion in the 400 m hurdles....
    , national champion U.S. Hurdler
  • Brian Mitchell (kicker)
    Brian Mitchell (kicker)

    Brian Mitchell played college football for Marshall University in 1987 and the University of Northern Iowa from 1989-1991. He holds many UNI football records and NCAA records as well including the most accurate single season kicker in NCAA college football history ....
    , Arena Football drop kick
    Drop kick

    A drop kick is a type of Kick in various codes of football. It involves someone dropping a ball and then kick ing it when it bounces off the ground....
     record holder.
  • Terry Allen (football coach)
    Terry Allen (football coach)

    Terry Allen is the head football coach at Missouri State University. He was the head coach at the University of Kansas from 1997 to 2001, where he compiled a 20-33 record....
    , Missouri State head football coach
  • Greg McDermott
    Greg McDermott

    Greg McDermott is the current Iowa State University Cyclones men's Basketball head coach. He took over for fired coach Wayne Morgan. He left the University of Northern Iowa as the head basketball coach in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Iowa....
     (basketball coach), currently Iowa State University
    Iowa State University

    The Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University , is a public land-grant university and Space grant colleges university located in Ames, Iowa, United States....
     head men's basketball coach
  • Keith Young three-time NCAA wrestling champion
  • Chris Pirillo
    Chris Pirillo

    Christopher "Chris" Joseph Pirillo is the founder and maintainer of Lockergnome, which is a large blogging network. He spent two years hosting the TechTV television program Call for Help before parting ways with the show....
    , former host of TechTV's "Call for Help" show, founder of Lockergnome
  • Bill Smith, 1952 Olympic gold medalist (wrestling)
  • Chaz Engelkes, Teacher
  • Steven E. Athay, Bank Teller Supervisor
  • Steve Proffitt
    Steve Proffitt

    Steve Proffitt is an American radio journalist who is currently Senior Producer for NPR's newsmagazine, Day to Day. In addition to on-air reporting, he?s responsible for a stable of contributing writers, including humorists Brian Unger and Annabelle Gurwitch, and musician and critic David Was....
    , senior producer, National Public Radio
  • Bess Streeter Aldrich
    Bess Streeter Aldrich

    Bess Streeter Aldrich was an United States author.Bess Streeter was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. After graduating from University of Northern Iowa, she taught school at several locations in the west, later returning to Cedar Falls to earn an advanced degree in education....
    , novelist
  • Mary Ellen Solt
    Mary Ellen Solt

    Mary Ellen Solt, n?e Bottom was an United States concrete poetry. Her work was most notably poems in the shape of flowers such as "Forsythia", "Lilac", and...
    , poet
  • Phyllis Somerville
    Phyllis Somerville

    Phyllis Somerville is an United Sates stage, screen, and television actress. Her most prominent role to date was as the mother of the sexual predator played by Jackie Earle Haley in 2006's Little Children ....
     film, theatre and television actress
  • Pamela Levy
    Pamela Levy

    Pamela Levy was an Israelis artist.Pamela Levy was born in in Fairfield, Iowa. She completed a B.A. at the University of Northern Iowa .In 1976 she immigrated to Israel where she started exhibiting her work in solo shows soon after....
    , American-Israeli artist
  • Abinadi Meza
    Abinadi Meza

    Abinadi Meza is an artist whose work often uses ephemeral media such as sound to create transformative spaces and explore relationships regarding individuals and social context....
    , performance artist
  • Bill Stewart
    Bill Stewart

    Bill or Billy Stewart may refer to:*Bill Stewart , coach and official in ice hockey and baseball, and a head coach for the Chicago Blackhawks...
    , jazz musician
  • Bonnie Koloc
    Bonnie Koloc

    Bonnie Koloc is an American folk music singer-songwriter, actress, and artist who was considered one of the three main Illinois-based folk singers in the 1970s, along with Steve Goodman and John Prine forming the "trinity of the Chicago folk scene."....
    , vocalist, recording artist
  • Mark Steines
    Mark Steines

    Mark Anthony Steines is an United States broadcast journalist and a co-anchor of the syndicated gossip and entertainment round-up program Entertainment Tonight since 2004....
    , co-host of Entertainment Tonight
    Entertainment Tonight

    Entertainment Tonight is a daily television entertainment news show that is Television syndication by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States, Canada and in many countries around the world....
  • Warren Allen Smith
    Warren Allen Smith

    Warren Allen Smith is a gay United States activist, writer and Humanism . In 1961, Smith started the Variety Recording Studio, a major independent company off Broadway , New York City, with his business partner and longtime companion Fernando Rodolfo de Jesus Vargas Zamora....
    , writer
  • Bruce Charlesworth
    Bruce Charlesworth

    Bruce Charlesworth is a visual artist known primarily for his photographic, video and multimedia works. He is considered one of the pioneers of post-modern staged photography and an innovator in video installation and interactivity....
    , filmmaker and photographer
  • Dean Schwarz
    Dean Schwarz

    Dean Schwarz is an American ceramic artist, painter, writer and teacher. He was also the co-founder and proprietor of South Bear School by which he imparted to students a tradition of functional studio pottery that originated as early as the Middle Ages, and of which an impassioned revival occurred in 1919 at the Bauhaus in Weimar....
    , ceramic artist
  • Will Wilkinson
    Will Wilkinson

    Will Wilkinson is an American libertarian writer and thinker. Currently he is a research fellow at the Cato Institute where he works on a variety of issues including Social Security reform and, most notably, the policy implications of happiness research....
    , political writer and policy analyst
  • Tom Pettit
    Tom Pettit

    William Thomas Pettit was a television news correspondent for NBC News from the 1960s through 1995. During most of that period, he filed reports for NBC Nightly News and served numerous times on the panel of Meet the Press. He served as one of NBC's floor reporters at the political conventions in 1972, 1976, and 1980....
    , television news correspondent for NBC
  • Michael Boyd
    Michael Boyd

    Michael Boyd is a British theatre director, and current artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has regularly collaborated with stage designer Tom Piper since they first worked together on a pantomime for the Tron Theatre in Glasgow....
    , painter
  • Charles Grassley, U.S. Senator
  • Gil Gutknecht
    Gil Gutknecht

    Gilbert William "Gil" Gutknecht, Jr. is an United States politician. Gutknecht was a Republican Party member of the United States House of Representatives first elected in 1994 to represent Minnesota's Minnesota's 1st congressional district, one of eight Minnesota Congressional Districts....
    , Former U.S. Congressman
  • Roger Jepsen
    Roger Jepsen

    Roger William Jepsen is a former United States Senator from Iowa.He was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa on December 23 1928, where he attended the public schools and the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls....
    , former U.S. Senator


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  • Jeremy Beck
    Jeremy Beck

    VANITY PAGE -- ORIGINAL RESEARCH, CREATED BY THE SUBJECT OF THE BIOGRAPHYJeremy Beck is a dramatic and lyrical United States composer of works for varying orchestral, chamber and vocal forces....
    , composer, Associate Professor of Composition & Theory (1992-98)
  • Herb Hake
    Herb Hake

    BiographyHerb Hake was an author, cartoonist, radio, and television personality; associated with the University of Northern Iowa. He was awarded several honorary doctoral degrees....
    , television personality
  • James Hearst
    James Hearst

    James Hearst , born James Schell Hearst, was an American poet, philosopher and university professor, who was sometimes described as the ?Robert Frost of the Midwest.? ...
    , poet and former professor
  • Leland Sage
    Leland Sage

    Leland Livingston Sage was an United States professor emeritus of history at the University of Northern Iowa. He was deeply interested in Iowa history, and wrote two books on it, both of which won national recognition from the American Association for State and Local History....
    , former professor
  • Doug Shaw, current professor, director of Half-Masted 3.2 and noted textbook author
  • Norm Stewart
    Norm Stewart

    Norm Stewart is a retired United States college basketball coach. He coached at the University of Northern Iowa from 1961 to 1967, but is best known for his career with the University of Missouri from 1967 until 1999....
    , former men's basketball coach who went on to become a legendary coach at the University of Missouri
    University of Missouri

    The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press....
  • Robert James Waller
    Robert James Waller

    Robert James Waller is an United States author also known for his work as a photographer and musician. Several of his books have been on the New York Times New York Times bestseller list including 1992's The Bridges of Madison County which was the top best-seller in 1993....
    , former professor of business, author of The Bridges of Madison County
    The Bridges of Madison County

    The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 in literature best-selling novel by Robert James Waller which tells the story of a lonely Italian war bride who engages in an adulterous affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington who has come to Madison County, Iowa in order to create a photo essay on the covered bri...


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