RESEARCH AT UNI…
Impressive scholarship
and research of UNI’s
dedicated faculty
members brought in more
than
million in
sponsored awards last
year.
Adele Quieroz, Assistant
Professor of Management, was
recently honored at the
national meeting of the
Academy of Management,
winning the
from the
Social Issues in Management
(SIM) Division.
The Center for Social
and Behavioral Research
at the University of
Northern Iowa (UNI) has
been conducting applied
survey research since
1967.
UNI is a
partner in the
Renaissance
Project…
…a ten-state initiative
to improve the quality of
their graduates and
teachers in local partner
schools by focusing
attention on P-12 student
learning.
Tom Stancliff,
Professor of Art,
recently created the
large-scale public
sculpture To Wing at
the Cedar Rapids
Airport
Jean Gerrath [Biology] was
awarded $170,000 as her
share of a
for a
collaborative research
project on the phylogeny and
biogeographic history of the
grapevine.
Paul Gray [Computer Science] was
the lead on a project selected by
Campus Technology magazine as a
,
one of 14 projects chosen from more
than 300 submissions
nationwide. Edu-Grid, his project,
is an educational high-performance
computing environment that supports
HPC instruction and curriculum
development.
Christopher W. Larimer,
Political Science, co-authored
an article that appears in the
February issue of American
Political Science Review
Mary DeSoto and Robert
Hitlan, Psychology,
researched data linking
mercury levels to autism and
were published in the
November edition of the
Journal of Child Neurology…
which was recently
listed as the
top hidden jewel
by Faculty 1000
Biology
UNI’s Strategic Marketing
Services administered the
Iowa Energy Poll to discover
Iowans' awareness,
perceptions, attitudes and
behaviors regarding energyrelated issues affecting the
state
The Regents'
Center
for Early
Developmental
Education
at UNI is
a national leader
in early childhood
education
UNI was within
$300 of
doubling its
competitive
grant awards
last year
Michael Walter
is conducting
research on Anthrax
detection
Daniel Power
is a global
thought-leader
in decision-support
systems
Chris Martin authored
Framed! Labor and
the Corporate Media,
an award-winning
book on how labor
unions are covered
in the news media
RESEARCH AT UNI…