RESEARCH AT UNI…

Impressive scholarship and research of UNI’s dedicated faculty members brought in more than $36

million insponsored awards last

year.

Adele Quieroz, Assistant Professor of Management, was recently honored at the national meeting of

the Academy of Management, winning the 2008 Best Dissertation Award 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 RenaissanceProject…  

…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 National Science Foundation grant

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 2008 Campus Technology

Innovator, 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 energy-related 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…