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	Filmmaker Anne Makepeace to visit UNI October 6-9 Award-winning filmmaker Anne Makepeace will visit the University of Northern Iowa October 6-9, 2013 as part of the William and Stephanie Clohesy Documentary Film Series. Makepeace will host screenings of four of her award-winning films, as well as visit...
	Comm Major Harrison Postler is Commencement Speaker; More than 100 Communication Majors Graduate Harrison Postler, a senior communication major and an award-winning member of UNI's Forensics team, gave the student address at the Spring 2013 commencement in the McLeod Center on May 11. Postler was one of 110 graduates granted a BA from the Department of...
	Speech Team Repeats Top 10 Finish at Nationals This weekend, the University of Northern Iowa Speech team competed at the American Forensics Association-National Individual Events Tournament (AFA-NIET) in Hutchinson, Kansas. This is the most selective and competitive collegiate national speech tournament....
	Shew and Simonson Advance to Triple Octafinals at CEDA Nationals Debate Tournament The UNI debate team of Abbie Shew and Zach Simonson were 5-3 in preliminary rounds, defeating teams from Kansas and West Virginia, at the CEDA Nationals, the largest national debate tournament in policy debate. The Kansas teams that they defeated both made it...
	Interactive Digital Studies Program is Finalist for Prometheus Award The University of Northern Iowa's new interdisciplinary Interactive Digital Studies program is a finalist for the 2013 Technology Association of Iowa Prometheus Awards. The IDS program's nomination is in the category of Innovation in Teaching. The program was...
	Professors, Alumnus and Student to Give Conference Plenary Presentation UNI Communication Studies Associate Professors Sarina Chen and Laura Terlip, Luther College Associate Professor Mark Johns (UNI Communication Studies MA, 1995), and Jeff Coons (Senior, Communication Studies) have been invited to be the plenary speakers in the...
	Palczewski Suffrage Postcard Archive in the News The "Palczewski Suffrage Postcard Archive," a website created by Communication Studies Professor Catherine H. Palczewski, was featured in a Nov. 1, 2012 story by San Francisco-based Collector's Weekly. The archive, developed with cards acquired by Palczewski...
	Buel Wins 2012 Outstanding New Forensics Coach Award At a meeting of the AFA-NIET committee in Orlando last week, UNI Director of Individual Events Rebecca Buel was awarded the 2012 AFA-NIET Outstanding New Forensics Coach Award. The award will be given at the national tournament in spring 2013, but the...
	Francesca Soans to Premiere Film on Jewish Community in Waterloo The University of Northern Iowa will premiere professor Francesca Soans' documentary film, "Sons of Jacob Synagogue," at 4 p.m., on Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center. The pioneering documentary explores the histories and...
	Fast Forward Workshop Features Hawkeye Radio Voice Gary Dolphin as Keynote Speaker Gary Dolphin, announcer for football and men's basketball at the University of Iowa will team up with Gary Rima, announcer for UNI football and basketball, to deliver the keynote address as the 8th annual Fast Forward electronic media workshop at UNI. "Fast...