IUPUI is Indiana's premier urban research university. The campus enrolls more than 30,000 students in 21 schools and academic units.
Former IU Gov. and Sen. Evan Bayh was the featured speaker in October during the inaugural presentation of the Birch Bayh Lecture. The series was created to focus on issues important to the elder Bayh, who served three terms in the U.S. Senate.
Oct 28, 2012 — photo credit: Chris Meyer
Evan Bayh welcomes the inaugural crowd to Wynne Courtroom for the first lecture in the series.
Bayh engaged the crowd in a question-and-answer session.
Bayh chats with Stephen Sterrett (left) and James Barkley, both part of the Simon Property Group that helped create the lecture series.
A good crowd was on hand to launch the newest jewel among IUPUI's public lectures.
Bayh joined Robert McKinney, for whom the IUPUI-based law school is named, and Dean Gary Roberts (right) after the lecture.
The younger Bayh's remarks focused on vital public issues that were part of not only his political career, but that of his father.
Former Indiana Supreme Court justice Frank Sullivan (left), now a faculty member at the McKinney School of Law, enjoys a light-hearted ...
IUPUI Chancellor Charles R. Bantz and McKinney spent a few moments chatting at the post-event reception.
The reception was held in Inlow Hall's main atrium.
The Birch Bayh Lecture series figures to help foster plenty of content to challenge public discourse.
Bayh was joined by friends and associates afterward, including (from left): Sullivan, G. Frederick Glass (IU's athletics director); Hon. ...
IUPUI is Indiana's premier urban research university. The campus enrolls more than 30,000 students in 21 schools and academic units.