Jill Uhlenberg, Ph.D., retired from UNI in 2017. She has a wide variety of experience in early childhood education, including preschool and child care teaching, as director of the UNI Child Development Center, 13 years as a school board member in Northeast Iowa, and as Head of UNI's Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Since her retirement, she has continued to support the Iowa Regents' Center in research, curriculum development, and grant writing, with a focus on infant and toddler STEM curriculum.