Student Accolades Archive

Two UNI interior design students earned national honors during the National Durkan Competition. Libby Hurder, junior, won first place and MaTrasa Phillips, sophomore, won third place.

Angela Wrage, a senior chemistry and biology major, received the 2013 National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Scholarship. She was one of 161 selected from a pool of 947 applicants.

Sons of Jacob Synagogue, a documentary directed by Francesca Soans, communication studies, and Dr. Robert Neymeyer received the Award of Excellence for Directing by the Iowa Motion Picture Association. The film was also recognized for the Award of Excellence for Soundtrack Audio Mix to Tom Barry, School of Music; Award of Achievement for Original Music Score to Rebecca Burkhardt, School of Music; Award of Achievement for Visual Effects to electronic media students Brandon Poll and Grant Atherton; and Awards of Achievement for Editing and for Documentary to Soans and Neymeyer.

The UNI Speech Team qualified 10 students in 34 events at the American Forensic Association National Individual Events Tournament (AFA-NIET) in Kansas. The AFA-NIET is the most selective and competitive collegiate national speech tournament. This is one of the largest contingents UNI has sent to AFA-NIET in the tournament's 35-year history. The team placed 10 out of 78 teams in team sweepstakes.

UNI received a STARS gold rating in recognition of its sustainability achievements from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). This is the second STARS gold rating UNI has received since 2011.

UNI's American Marketing Association (AMA) received a chapter performance award for "Outstanding Professional Development" and "Outstanding Membership" at the AMA International Collegiate Conference in New Orleans.

UNI-SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) earned first place at the North Central Regional SHRM Student Conference for its presentation and overview of a human resources case study. This is the first time UNI students have won the case competition.

Faculty, staff and students in the College of Humanities, Arts & Sciences (CHAS) took home 15 awards for design and advertising projects at the Cedar Valley ADDY Awards.

The 2013 UNI Dance Marathon raised $101,379.02 for the University of Iowa Children's Hospital and the Children's Miracle Network, nearly double what the group raised last year.

The UNI Dance Team placed 4th in the nation among Division I teams for their jazz routine at the Universal Dance Association (UDA) Championship held at the ESPN World Wide Sports Center in Orlando, Fla. The team placed 4th for their POM routine.

UNI's Study Abroad programs were ranked No. 15 of the top 40 U.S. institutions among Master's Colleges and Universities and No. 9 of the top 20 leading institutions in the nation by participation in short-term study abroad among Master's Colleges and Universities by the 2012 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange. UNI was the only public university in Iowa recognized for short-term study abroad programs.

Jacqui Kalin, a graduate student in health, physical education & leisure services, from Sioux City, Iowa, has been selected as the 2013 Marty Glickman Outstanding Female Jewish Scholar Athlete of the Year by the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum Committee. Kalin, a member of the UNI Women's Basketball team is in second place in career scoring with 1,763 points and is only 88 points shy of being the all-time leading scorer in UNI history.

Overall satisfaction with on-campus living is at its highest, according to the national Educational Benchmarking Survey conducted annually. The survey measures satisfaction with room assignments, environment, programming, safety and dining.

Allie Arp, a senior from West Liberty, Iowa received the Ron Culp Scholarship for mentoring at the national conference for the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) in San Francisco.

Eight UNI School of Music students recently received top honors in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Iowa District Student Auditions.

The American Chemical Society's Committee on Education presented the Outstanding Chapter Award for 2011-2012 activities to UNI's student chapter.

 Phil Musson, senior, management and Spanish, placed first in the speaker's competition and Joseph Minor, senior, marketing, placed second in the Pro-Am Sell-A-Thon Sales Competition at the Pi Sigma Epsilon North Central Regional Convention.

Rebecca Buel, communication studies, was awarded the 2012 American Forensic Association National Individual Events Tournament Outstanding New Forensics Coach Award. The award will be given at the national tournament in spring 2013.