The University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital opened its new 14 floor hospital on February 25th, 2017 becoming Iowa's only comprehensive children's hospital. The hospital has served nearly every U.S. state and makes miracles happen daily. Three of the rooms in the hospital were committed to fundraising for the hospital helped to fund the three rooms in the hospital that are now named after UNI Dance Marathon. The first room is a Patient Room in the Pediatric Inten

November’s Dancer of the Month is Lauren Mattson! Lauren is a Sophomore General Music major. Creativity and years of collecting with her...

Imagine this: you’re sitting around your dining room table with all of your family, but there’s one empty seat. This seat has been empty...

Dance Marathon has touched the lives of so many people, and the students on the University of Northern Iowa’s campus are no exception....

It’s the middle of November which means crunch time for college students. The fall semester is coming to an end. For many of us this...

November’s Dancer of the Month is Emma Mooers! Emma is a freshman marketing major, and she is a part of the Corporate Partnerships...

Let me paint you a picture of a scenario that was all too real for me at one point. You walk into Maucker Union or Rod Library, you don’t know anyone and you try not to be noticed. You’re new to the university, and you’re really shy and nervous to branch out. Ever since I transferred to University of Northern Iowa, I struggled to find my place. I transferred to UNI in the middle of my sophomore year, and I just remember feeling so lost. I didn’t have a ton of friends, I wasn

I have been contemplating what I wanted this blog to be about for a while. The typical ideas come to mind about “What Dance Marathon...

Nicole is a first year student at UNI and she, like many first year students, was unsure about diving head first into a student organization within her first few weeks at UNI, but she did exactly that with UNI Dance Marathon. This is her letter to anyone who may be feeling just like she did before deciding to take the leap and sign up for UNI Dance Marathon. Dear Reader, There are over 250 clubs and organizations at the University of Northern Iowa. Out of those 250, why jo

Every minute, 62 children enter a Children's Miracle Network Hospital for treatment. 62 has become an important number for UNI Dance...