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1 UNI offers science summer camps for middle school and high school students
Public Relations News Release 2009:431, p.1 		Budding scientists will have an opportunity to satisfy their intellectual curiosity on topics ranging from robotics to astronomy to crime fighting with biotechnology at several summer science camps.
2 Institutional evaluation and administrative change
A Century of Leadership and Service 2:0, p.17 		The college receives accreditation from the North Central Association; President Latham organizes publicity, research, alumni services, and placement; institution of the Faculty Senate and changes in faculty governance; the role of religion; photo.
3 Scholarships made available for graduate students
Public Relations News Release 1989:509, p.1 		The C. W. Lantz Summer Awards are offered to students of natural science who have been admitted to graduate study with degree status. The scholarships are provided by Professor C. W. Lantz, former head of the Department of Science.
4 Students encouraged to apply for variety of natural science scholarships
Public Relations News Release 1987:254, p.1 		The College of Natural Science offers a series of scholarships in honor of Cyrus W. Lantz, former head of the Department of Science. Applicants must have been admitted to graduate study, and carry a course load between five and eight credits.
5 Astronomy teaching conference to feature lecture by Ohio State professor Nov. 3
Public Relations News Release 1987:89, p.1 		Professor George Collins delivered a lecture in Lantz Auditorium in McCollum Science Hall, where he spoke on recent findings in the field of astronomy. Collins discussed quasars, black holes, and other objects believed to be at the edge of the universe.
6 What's up
Northern Iowan 78:39, p.7 		Meetings and activities; International Women's Day.
7 What's up
Northern Iowan 78:24, p.6 		Meetings and activities; Southern Illinois University Law School Representative; Ukranian Egg Creation mini-course; Mesa Espanola; Seminar in Religion Panel Discussion; Vocational Rehabilitation questionnaire.
8 What's up
Northern Iowan 78:23, p.4 		Meetings and activities; Mesa Espanola; Southern Illinois University Law School Representative.
9 What's up
Northern Iowan 77:52, p.7 		Meetings and activities; UNI Secretaries.
10 What's up
Northern Iowan 77:48, p.5 		Meetings and activities; UNI Secretaries.
11 What's up
Northern Iowan 77:40, p.4 		Meetings and activities.
12 What's up
Northern Iowan 76:39, p.4 		Meetings and activities; hair cutting demonstration.
13 What's up
Northern Iowan 76:10, p.7 		Meetings and activities; Community Action Network; Committee on Asian Studies; Home Economics Octoberfest.
14 What's up
Northern Iowan 76:6, p.7 		Meetings and activities; backgammon tournament; French speakers.
15 Cutline
Public Relations News Release 1970:161, p.1 		Dr. Warren Picklum (biology) shows the science department's electron microscope to four of the Iowa high school students attending the 1970 Prospective Teacher Day on the UNI campus.
16 Regents Approve Establishment of Separate Departments of Physics and Earth Science at UNI
Public Relations News Release 1969:330, p.1 		During to its growth, McCollum has suggested that the Department of Physics be separate from the Department of Earth Science.
17 UNI to Award Science Scholarships at Annual Symposium
Public Relations News Release 1969:173, p.1 		Six four-year fee exemption scholarships will be awarded to high school students at the symposium. Speakers present at general sessions.
18 Faculty Senate divides Department of Science
Northern Iowan 64:16, p.1 		Science is divided into biology, chemistry, and earth science; considers pass/fail plan.
19 Senate discusses three topics
Northern Iowan 64:8, p.12 		Faculty Senate discusses general education, science department division, and meeting with Student Senate.
20 Takes issue with Fox
College Eye 63:18, p.2 		Feels the quality of instruction, at least within the science department, is very good contrary to the belief of Josef Fox.
21 Dr. McCollum announces biology curriculum change
College Eye 60:11, p.1 		Outline of the changes.
22 Biology major discussion held Monday at 3
College Eye 60:4, p.6 		Will discuss new curriculum.
23 Enrollment cramps science, education
Alumnus 49:4, p.6 		Professor McCollum outlines needs for better facilities; photo.
24 Science in the early sixties at SCI
Alumnus 49:3, p.2 		Curriculum, programs, personnel, and opportunities in Department of Science; photo.
25 SCI science department honors emeritus faculty
College Eye 53:10, p.8 		Dinner will honor five emeritus faculty.
26 ISTC scientist publishes work
Public Relations News Release 1960:461, p.1 		Charles Allegre contributes to the publication of the "Encyclopedia of the Biological Sciences" reference book for professional biologists and teachers. Allegre is responsible with writing a section on a species of single-celled parasitic organisms.
27 ISTC scientists to visit Iowa high schools
Public Relations News Release 1960:421, p.1 		Professors Leland Wilson, J. W. Kercheval, Dorothy Matela, Clifford McCollum, and Robert Rogers take part in the Iowa Visiting-Scientist Program. The program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
28 Science majors asked to meet
College Eye 51:13, p.3
29 Science Department Offers Closed Circuit TV Courses
Old Gold 0:0, p.111 		Closed circuit TV classes were offered for the second year; the Academic Year Institute was attempting to upgrade the quality of science and math courses; photo.
30 Summer In England Highlights Social Science Year
Old Gold 0:0, p.112 		The goal of the Social Science Department was to enable students to better understand the past and present history and problems in the world in which he or she lives; a group of about fifty students went to a seminar in England and Europe; photo.
31 Future TC curriculum--Majors without minors
College Eye 50:29, p.1 		Longer majors without minors will be offered in the Departments of Science and Social Science.
32 Science Tries Closed Circuit TV
Old Gold 0:0, p.111 		Description of the department and the various activities and events that the department took part in; photos.
33 Grant brings total to third of a million
Alumnus 42:1, p.4 		NSF adds $58,300 to grant supporting science and math education; ISTC is only teachers college to receive this award.
34 Department of Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.53 		The Department of Science participated with Iowa State College and the State University of Iowa in the Lakeside Laboratory on Lake Okoboji; the National Science Foundation awarded a grant to Martin Lawrence Grant; photo.
35 McCollum appointed to head Science Dept.; McCollum will replace Lantz
College Eye 48:30, p.1 		Quick look at faculty leaves, appointments, and resignations.
36 $51,100 grant for TC Science Institute
College Eye 48:13, p.1 		NSF grant to be used in summer institute; photo.
37 63 at national math institute
Alumnus 40:3, p.4 		ISTC hosts six-week summer institute.
38 Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.103 		Brief description of the department; photo.
39 Departments begin moving to renovated Campus School
Alumnus 40:2, p.2 		Social Science moves into third and part of second floor; Earth Science moves to second floor; Business Education will move into first and basement floors; Education and English move into Auditorium.
40 Befuddled birds bamboozled by all binoculared biologists
College Eye 47:26, p.7 		A look at the biology curriculum.
41 Chemists crave a crazy concoction
College Eye 47:26, p.7 		A look at the chemistry curriculum.
42 Physics furnishes intellectual fuel for finite mind
College Eye 47:26, p.7 		A look at the physics curriculum.
43 Science Sponsors Conservation Camp
Old Gold 0:0, p.91 		Description of the department and the accomplishments over the year. Also, a list of the fields that are a part of the department and a photo of the faculty; photos.
44 Science department announces plan for Northwest U.S. study courses
College Eye 46:12, p.5 		Martin Grant may lead trip; a look at the itinerary.
45 Science faculty holds picnic supper indoors
College Eye 46:7, p.6
46 Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.244 		Brief description of the department; photo.
47 Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.244 		Brief description of the department; photo.
48 Science faculty dines
College Eye 45:32, p.3 		Roy Abbott was speaker.
49 Science Department releases newsletter
College Eye 45:30, p.6 		Sends news to alumni.
50 NE Iowa Science Fair attracts 1200 to campus
Alumnus 38:2, p.5 		List of award winners.
51 Plan NE Iowa Science Fair March 20
Alumnus 38:1, p.9 		Science Department to sponsor event and to offer awards.
52 Honor science faculty at annual building tea
College Eye 45:17, p.3 		Departments honor each other.
53 Science Department prepares for own Northeast Iowa fair
College Eye 45:12, p.1 		Will invite students from 18 counties.
54 Dr. Matala entertains science department
College Eye 45:10, p.7 		Professor Matala will speak on Glacier National Park.
55 Science picnic planned
College Eye 44:39, p.1
56 Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.59 		The Department of Science conducts statewide conservation programs, as well as a summer conservation camp near Guthrie Center; photo.
57 Bardach to talk about the Arctic
College Eye 44:9, p.3
58 Science Department
Old Gold 0:0, p.158 		A brief description of the department with photos of the faculty and of the lab; photo.
59 Science Department
Old Gold 0:0, p.158 		A brief description of the department with photos of the faculty and of the lab; photo.
60 Two education conferences will be held Friday and Saturday, April 4 - 5
Public Relations News Release 1952:491, p.1 		Featured speaker at the elementary conference will be A. Sterl Artley. He will address a general session on "Adjusting the School Program to the Slow Learner." Harold Benjamin will speak at the secondary education conference.
61 The third annual Iowa Teachers Conservation Camp at Springbrook State Park near Guthrie Center will offer three study sessions this summer
Public Relations News Release 1952:552, p.1 		Emery Will, camp director, said this summer's extra session will be designed for secondary school teachers. In the past two years sessions were held only for elementary teachers.
62 Clifford G. McCollum, assistant professor of physical science will be a featured speaker at a Career Day in Carroll Tuesday, April 15
Public Relations News Release 1952:393, p.1 		McCollum joined the staff in 1949 as an assistant professor of teaching and served as director of guidance and curriculum at the college Campus Laboratory School during the 1949-1950 academic year.
63 Special To: The Daily Record
Public Relations News Release 1951:282, p.1 		The new year finds the college 75 years young, looking forward to the inquguration of its graduate program in the summer of 1952. A major curriculum revision for degree students began during the 1951 summer session.
64 Professors Rath and Grant
Public Relations News Release 1951:260, p.1 		Earl H. Rath and Martin L. Grant, both members of the science department will attend a meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science in Philadelphia. Rath will take part in a panel discussion on the program.
65 Seven departments have been authorized by the state board of education to offer graduate level courses leading to the Master of Arts in Education
Public Relations News Release 1951:31, p.1 		In outlining the board of education's decision, Dean M. J. Nelson said graduate work offered by the education departments will be in four areas-elementary teaching, elementary supervisor, elementary principalship, and secondary principalship.
66 Seven departments have been authorized by the state board of education to offer graduate level courses leading to the Master of Arts in Education
Public Relations News Release 1951:25, p.1 		M. J. Nelson, dean of the faculty, announced today that Six of the departments - business education, education, English and speech, science, mathematics, and social science- will participate in the graduate program beginning in the summer of 1952.
67 Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.66 		Brief description of the department; photo.
68 A revised edition of "The Physical Sciences," widely-used college science text, will be published later this month by Prentiss Hall and company
Public Relations News Release 1950:377, p.1 		Authors of the book, published in 1940, and the revision are E. J. Cable, Robert W. Getchell, and W. H. Kadesch, all on the emeritus faculty. They are professors of earth science, chemistry, and physics.
69 Eight faculty members at Iowa State Teachers college will take an active part in the 63rd meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science
Public Relations News Release 1950:312, p.1 		Wartburg college is host to the two-day session beginning Friday, April 20. C. W. Lantz, and James V. Farrell are chairmen of the sections on botany and science teaching. Four persons will present papers.
70 Handicapped children are children, first; children with some limitations, second, say an authority on that group's education
Public Relations News Release 1950:294, p.1 		Francis E. Lord of Ypsilanti, Michigan, director of the Horace Rackham School of Special Education at Michigan State Normal College, spoke to about 105 persons attending a special education conference. He urged against segregation.
71 Spring is the season for conferences at the college;
Teachers and administrators can choose from three of them next weekend, April 13-14
Public Relations News Release 1950:290, p.1 		The conferences are Putting audio-visual materials to work, The Iowa Business Education conference, and The Mathematics conference. Three other conferences will be held this weekend: Special Education, Science, and Hearing and Speech.
72 Three departments, home economics, mathematics, and science,will sponsor Open House Sunday, April 8
Public Relations News Release 1950:288, p.1 		Visitors may inspect any of the departments between 2 and 4:30 p.m. in the Vocational building, southeast of the campanile.
73 Plan 1951 Summer Camp for Conservation Study
Public Relations News Release 1950:139, p.1 		The Iowa state conservation commission and officials from the College met in Des Moines this month and made plans for the 1951 summer conservation camp at Springbrook park near Guthrie Center. Three-week sessions will start June 17 and July 8.
74 Name Reporters for College Eye
Public Relations News Release 1950:105, p.1 		George Holmes, Jr., covers social life, the science department and the radio station, and William P. Williamson, covers the Dean of Men's office and the foreign language department. Both reporters are from Cedar Falls.
75 Many wild-life families are welcome inhabitants of newly developed area
College Eye 41:36, p.4 		Two acre field planted for wildlife.
76 Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.50 		Brief description of the department; photo.
77 Current biology display features blue bird's wing
College Eye 41:25, p.7
78 7 new faculty on science staff
College Eye 41:4, p.4 		Brief profiles of new faculty.
79 Classes in annex move to Vocational Building
College Eye 41:2, p.1 		One half of the second floor of the Vocational Building will now be used for biology.
80 Biology classes will have more space this fall
College Eye 40:40, p.6 		Results of remodeling in the Vocational Building.
81 Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.38 		Brief description of the department; photo.
82 Hart and Cable retire from their posts
Alumnus 32:3, p.7 		Dr. Ritter will succeed Mr. Hart; Dr. Lantz will succeed Dr. Cable; photo.
83 Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.40 		A brief description is given on what students could expect from the science courses offered at Teachers College, such as a clearer understanding of the phenomena of science, with a photo of E. J. Cable and students working in a lab; photo.
84 Lantz will replace Cable as Dept. head
College Eye 39:31, p.1 		Professor Cable will serve as curator of Museum; profile of Professor Lantz.
85 Science department adds new equipment for laboratory work
College Eye 38:38, p.3
86 Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.96 		Brief description of the department; photo.
87 Inquiring Reporter
College Eye 38:32, p.8 		Students respond to the question, "Do you think that the survey course in biological science should be required?"
88 Commerce, biology, arts get classrooms, shops
College Eye 38:19, p.1 		College will get four surplus buildings to be erected south of 27th Street; description of the buildings.
89 Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.46 		Students have a wide variety of classes to take in in the Department of Science; photo.
90 Teaching Departments--Mathematics and Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.42 		Professors Henry Van Engen and Emmett J. Cable head the Departments of Mathematics and Science; photo.
91 College asks for new campus school
Alumnus 29:1, p.8 		Broad plan includes requests for new health services building, campus school, arts and industries building, auditorium, garages, coal pile containment, and heating plant facilities.
92 Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.45 		The Science Department has felt the impact of the war; more girls are taking the courses. The fifteen laboratories are busy with either students or air cadets; photo.
93 Tutor Timetable
College Eye 35:25, p.4 		Events and meetings scheduled; student recital; life saving demonstration; holy week services; choir rehearsals.
94 Alembic
Old Gold 0:0, p.75 		Sponsored by Lambda Delta Lambda, this club is open to all those interested in chemistry and provides opportunities for social contacts and training in groups speaking; photo.
95 Beta Beta Beta
Old Gold 0:0, p.73 		Otherwise known as "Tri Beta," this club aims to encourage scientific research and develop high scholastic standings. One of the main goals this year was to present biology through photography; photo.
96 Chemistry Seminar
Old Gold 0:0, p.74 		The Chemistry Seminar is for those who have a major, minor or an interest in chemistry and can find time from other activities to attend meetings; photo.
97 Lambda Delta Lambda
Old Gold 0:0, p.75 		The national physical science fraternity on campus encouraging scholarship in science awards a trophy to the student that shows most promise of success; photo
98 Science
Old Gold 0:0, p.72 		Brief description of the department; photo.
99 Abbott hails new 'non-slip' chairs
College Eye 33:3, p.1 		New chairs added to laboratories.
100 Reorganize home economics classes
College Eye 33:2, p.5 		Professor Sutherland explains the curricular changes.