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Designing Healthy Communities is a four-part series that takes a comprehensive look at the impact America’s built environment has on public health, and at the people and communities working to turn things around through innovative solutions.
In the final episode, "Searching for Shangri-La," Dr. Jackson searches past and present America for model communities large and small that embody the intricate balance of health promoting design and human needs. Does the perfect community exist?
The documentary "Living Downstream," based on the book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, will be shown. The film follows Steingraber during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links. After a routine cancer screening, she receives worrying results and is thrust into a period of medical uncertainty. We begin two journeys with Steingraber: her private struggles with cancer and her public quest to bring attention to the urgent human rights issue of cancer prevention. The film also follows invisible toxins as they migrate to some of the most beautiful places in North America. We see how these chemicals enter our bodies and how, once inside, scientists believe they may be working to cause cancer. Kamyar Enshayan, Center for Energy and Environmental Education, will lead a discussion following the film.
Kick-off meeting of the UNI Financial Literacy Club for the 2014 spring semester. This is the place where you come to learn about money in the real world -- how to manage it, how to grow it and ultimately how use it in a way that will bring happiness into your life. Refreshments provided; we will be giving away $1,000 in cash! Join us in this journey of financial enlightenment.
Regular meeting of the UNI Faculty Senate; open to all.
UNI Dance Marathon will host random events throughout the week including sponsoring men's and women's basketball games, hosting a flash mob in Maucker Union, walking around with a wookie, a Pizza Hut give back night Jan. 27, selling t-shirts in Essentials and much more. Join us in celebrating those who keep our organization running.
Winner of 10 Tony Awards, "Hello, Dolly!" has become one of the most enduring, memorable Broadway classics, and Emmy-award winner Sally Struthers now stars in this all-new Broadway production.
The women's swimming and diving team takes on Iowa State University on Senior Day.
Threehouse: Wesley Foundation will host a panini night. All are encouraged to attend and welcome to stop by for free late-night snacks.
Winner of 10 Tony Awards, "Hello, Dolly!" has become one of the most enduring, memorable Broadway classics, and Emmy-award winner Sally Struthers now stars in this all-new Broadway production.
UNI tennis takes on Southeast Missouri State.
The women's swimming and diving team takes on Nebraska-Omaha. Time to be announced.
Conductor and UNI School of Music professor Ronald Johnson will coordinate this inaugural presentation of a new event which is a shared initiative among the four Iowa universities envisioned as a forum for presentations, discussions and activities focused on the art of conducting. For more information, contact Ronald.Johnson@uni.edu.
Enjoy viewing the night sky from the warmth and comfort of the Earth Science Department's Planetarium. Learn about the objects visible in the night sky and upcoming sky events. Shows start at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. and last about 30 minutes.
Isabela Varela, assistant director of career readiness, Career Services, will present "Are You Career Ready?"
Christopher Ruehl, postdoctoral scholar, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and adjunct professor, University of San Francisco will discuss "The effects of atmospheric particulate organic matter on climate and human health."
The keynote speaker for the 2014 Diversity Town Hall will be Regina Dixon-Reeves, the Faculty Diversity/Development Specialist for the University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences. The Diversity Matters Awards will be presented following the keynote address. A Diversity Fair will precede the event from 1:30-2 p.m.
Dale Cyphert, department of management, will present "Teaching the System: Principles of Complexity as a Blueprint for Communication Pedagogy." Human society functions as a complex adaptive system, and what would educational practices look like if they were built on principles from the science of complexity? We've been doing some sensible things all along, but some assumptions about student learning need to be re-examined. Bring your lunch; cookies will be provided.