Date:05/19/00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Gwenne Culpepper, Office of Public Relations, (319) 273-2761

Offices move and roads close due to construction at UNI

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – The University of Northern Iowa has begun extensive renovation of Redeker Center, which normally houses the Department of Residence administrative offices. Those offices have been moved to the area known as the East Towers Lounge in the Towers Center, east of the UNI-Dome.

Guests should use the entrances under the skywalks. Those who need an elevator to get to the second-level office should use those in Bender or Dancer, the two residence halls that make up the Towers. Dancer Hall plaza east of the Towers Center will be closed for construction for most of the summer.

Phone numbers and e-mail addresses will remain the same. The department offices will return to Redeker Center in summer 2001.

Further south on campus, Minnesota Street north of 27^th Street, and Dakota Street between Latham Hall and McCollum Science Hall, will be closed for reconstruction. The Minnesota Street project will close the West Gym/Communication Arts Center/Russell Hall parking lot. During the Dakota Street project, access to the McCollum Science Hall loading dock will be available via Wisconsin Street. Projected completion for both projects is July 7.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Kenneth Bleile, UNI associate professor of communicative disorders and Merchant Scholarship committee chair, (319) 273-2496

Vicki Grimes, UNI Office of Public Relations, (319) 273-2761

University of Northern Iowa bachelor degree graduates receive 2000-2001 Merchant Scholarships

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — The 2000-2001 Merchant Scholarship Program at the University of Northern Iowa, open to all UNI bachelor's degree graduates pursuing advanced degrees, has named this year's recipients.

The scholarships apply to continued study in a graduate or professional school at any educational institution in the United States or abroad. They are awarded on the basis of ability, attainment, moral character, spirit, personality, intellectual promise and devotion to society.

Recipients include: Connie Bertram, 1992 UNI graduate in psychology, pursuing her doctorate at Hunter College; Christine Darby, 1995 UNI graduate in biology, pursuing her doctorate at the University of Iowa; Sarah Ehlinger, a 1997 UNI graduate of the master's program, pursuing her doctorate at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee; and Jewel Jones, a UNI 1997 graduate, pursuing her doctorate at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Each was awarded $2,725.

The scholarships are awarded from a trust established in 1951 to honor Frank Ivan Merchant and his sister, Kate Matilda Merchant. Frank was a professor of Latin and Greek, and served as head of the Department of Foreign Languages at UNI (then Iowa State Teachers College). His sister taught piano lessons.

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