10/12/01
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Katie MacDonald, program manager-special programs, UNI Regional Business Center, (319) 236-8123
Vicki Grimes, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
Microsoft Excel Training for small area businesses to be offered Oct. 18
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The University of Northern Iowa Regional Business Center, in partnership with the UNI Information Technology Services Educational Technology Department, is offering a Microsoft Excel training course for small businesses. The course will be held on Thursday, Oct. 18, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the UNI Regional Business Center, 212 E. 4th St., Waterloo. Cost for the class is $75.
The course will teach basic shortcuts, formulas and applications, as well as present software to assist with financial statements.
For more information contact Katie MacDonald at (319) 236-8123 or (888) 273-8124.
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10/12/01
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Gregory Bruess, UNI associate professor of history, (319) 273-2752
Vicki Grimes, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
UNI to host History Lecture Wednesday, Oct. 17
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa --"The Chesme Church and the Construction of Empire in Catherine the Great's Russia" will be the topic of the next lecture in History Lecture Series at the University of Northern Iowa, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 17.
Gregory Breuss, UNI associate professor of history, will deliver the lecture in Seerley Hall, Room 115. Sponsored by the UNI Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta history honorary organization, it is open to the public, free of charge.
Breuss plans to discuss, "the naval victory which the Chesme Church was constructed to commemorate and argue that the new church reflected Catherine's quest to affix her own glorious imperial achievements and neo-classical cultural pretensions to the grand legacy of Russian Orthodoxy."
The next lecture in the series will be Nov. 14, and will feature Charles Holcombe, UNI associate professor of history.
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10/12/01
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Vicki Grimes, University Marketing & Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
Six University of Northern Iowa faculty members receive Regents’ Faculty Excellence Awards
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – Six faculty members from the University of Northern Iowa received Faculty Excellence Awards from the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, at a dinner held last month on the University of Iowa campus. They are among 19 Regents’ institution faculty so honored.
The recipients are: Mary Bozik, professor of communication studies; William Clohesy, associate professor of philosophy; Carol Colburn, professor of theatre; David May, associate professor of geography; Richard Utz, professor of English language and literature; and Darrell Wiens, professor of biology.
Bozik joined the UNI faculty in 1982 after receiving her Ph.D. in speech communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She teaches courses in communication education, listening, and ethics in communication, among others. Her primary research interests are critical listening and distance learning, and, more recently, technology in education.
She is co-director for the Communication Education ICN master's program, where all but one summer's courses are delivered over the Iowa Communications Network. One of UNI's first faculty members to teach over the ICN, Bozik has now taught 10 courses utilizing this delivery method.
Clohesy earned his Ph.D. in philosophy, with a minor in economics, from the New School for Social Research, where he received the Kurt Riezler Memorial Award in Philosophy and Political Thought for his dissertation. He joined the UNI faculty in 1987. His areas of specialization include German philosophy; ethics and political philosophy; American pragmatism; phenomenology and existentialism; and applied ethics, especially business and public policy. His competencies also include ancient philosophy; modern philosophy, Descartes through the 19th century; logic and critical thinking; and humanities.
Clohesy has been a Fulbright Lecturer in Argentina. He has received two W.K. Kellogg Foundation Grants for 'SERVE: Service, Ethical Reflection, Vocational Exploration,' a project for service-learning, faculty seminars and research. He was chair of the Committee for the Study of Ethics in UNI’s Department of Philosophy and Religion for a decade, during which time the ethics minor was established. He also served as a member of the Committee on Endowed Chair in Business Ethics.
Colburn joined the UNI faculty in 1981, following a similar position at Oberlin College. She previously served as a costume maker for the Guthrie Theatre, the Children’s Theatre Company and the Minnesota Opera, all in Minneapolis. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Minnesota Graduate School, majoring in design, housing and apparel and minoring in art history/museology.
Colburn has received numerous grants for historical costume research related to the dress of immigrant groups, focusing recently on Norwegian-American immigrant dress. Her research in Norway and America has resulted in publications, museum exhibits, and historical reconstructions. In her work in the theatre, she has designed costumes for nearly three dozen productions for Theatre UNI/UNI Lyric Theatre. She has taught or collaboratively taught some 18 different courses, including Fundamentals of the Theatre, Production Studies, Synthesis of the Theatre Experience, Costume History, and Costume Design. In theatre costume design and in her scholarly writing, Colburn says her central concerns are dress as visual language, and dress and identity.
May joined the UNI faculty in 1985, following completion of his course work for the Ph.D. in geography from the University of Wisconsin, which he received in 1986. He has taught at all levels from general education courses to graduate seminars, and received the Class of 1943 Award for Excellence in Teaching from UNI in 2000. This award not only rewards effective performance in the classroom, but also generosity with personal time and a serious concern with academic excellence and individual student needs, interests and development.
He also received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the UNI College of Social and Behavioral Sciences in 2000, Teaching Excellence Awards in 1994-95 and 1995-96 from the Department of Geography, and the Geography Professor of the Year Award in 1993-94 from Gamma Theta Upsilon, the geography student organization. In addition to being honored for his teaching, May has also received a Graduate College Research Award, six summer fellowships and three professional development leaves while at UNI.
Utz joined the UNI faculty in 1991, after earning his Ph.D. in English and German philology from the University of Regensburg, Germany. Beginning with his doctoral dissertation, which he later published as a book, Utz established a new subfield of inquiry in Medieval English studies that received an award from the German institution for outstanding work in English studies. He has been described by The Medieval Review as "perhaps the foremost exponent of the 'paradigm' of Nominalist influence upon late Medieval English Literature."
His areas of specialization include Medieval English language and literature, especially the late Middle Ages; Medievalism, the transformation of medieval literature and culture in postmedieval times; the history of English studies as a discipline, especially English philology; literary theories; and the study of cultural memory and national stereotypes in literary texts.
Wiens joined the UNI faculty in 1988, coming to UNI from a position as a postdoctoral researcher in molecular biology at The Ohio State University. He earned his Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology from Kansas State University, and also completed postdoctoral research training at National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City and the Stanford University School of Medicine.
His areas of research specialization include cell differentiation, cardiac myogenesis, neural crest cell motility, and gravitational and space biology, while his research techniques include cell and tissue culture; microsurgery, electrophoresis and blotting; immunoassay; immunocytochemistry; and video image analysis. Wiens teaches courses in the areas of animal development, cell motility, anatomy and physiology, comparative anatomy and careers in the health sciences.
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