The 2nd Annual IUPUI Cesar Chavez Dinner Set for March 29

The 2nd Annual Cesar Chavez Dinner at IUPUI will take place at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 29, 2009, at the IUPUI Campus Center, Room 450. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Educator and Retired Army Lt. Col. Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch, who broke barriers and set records during her military career, will be the featured speaker. The title of Kickbusch’s talk is "Living Your Legacy."

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Galileo

Tim Hardy of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London will star in the one-man play "Galileo" at 6 p.m., March 25, 2009, in the Wynne Courtroom of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis. The play celebrates the 400th anniversary of Galileo's discoveries. Lawrence A. Jegen III Professor of Law George Wright will introduce the play and offer his views on the relationship between science and religion. Tickets: $15. To reserve tickets, contact Vicki Hale, vhale@iupui.edu. See the Liberal Arts Web site for related events.

Telehealth for Diabetes Promotes Aging at Home, Not in the Hospital

A large study of ethnically and racially diverse individuals with diabetes has found that home telemonitoring of their health resulted in significantly fewer deaths than in a similar group that was not monitored. Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.

The study of 387 diabetics and 387 individuals without diabetes appears in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare.

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P. Nicholas Kellum Four Decades of Service

IUPUI Administrator Named Outstanding Advocate for First-Year Students

An Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis administrator is one of 10 recipients of a national award for work with first-year students.

The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition named Gayle Williams, assistant dean of University College at IUPUI, as a winner of its Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate Award. The center presented the award with the support and co-sponsorship of Wadsworth/Cengage Learning.

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Season 5 "The Apprentice" Will Present Lessons on Leadership

The man Donald Trump hired in the 2005 season of NBC’s “The Apprentice” will share leadership concepts during a presentation at IUPUI.

Randal Pinkett, Season 4 winner of “The Apprentice” is the guest speaker for the “Leadership Lessons” program at 6pm, Monday, March 30, 2009, in Room 450 of the IUPUI Campus Center, 420 University Blvd. The event is free of charge and open to the public.

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10th Annual IUPUI Outstanding Student Recognition Dinner

ICIC to Host 10th Anniversary Symposium

IUPUI Food Service Spring Break Hours

IUPUI Staff Council Legacy Project

Top 100 Dinner Table Sponsorship Deadline – Last Chance

2009 Women's History Month Calendar

High School Students to Compete in IUPUI Computer Programming Contest

Given some number of occupants, what is the probability that two people in the same room have the same birthday? You might take a guess, using your life experiences. Or, better yet, you might write a computer program to deliver a more exact answer.

The Department of Computer and Information Science in the School of Science at IUPUI is hosting the 3rd Annual IUPUI Computer Programming Contest for area high school students on Saturday March 21, 2009. Contestants will be presented with 10 programming problems and given four hours to write the programs using Java and C++. They will be judged by the speed with which they complete the programs and how the program conforms to the specifications of the problems.

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BSW Student Working to Repay a Debt That Has Nothing to Do with The Cost of School

Bernard Mickle

Like a lot of undergraduates, Bernard Mickle has only vague ideas about what he may eventually do in life. One thing he knows for sure though is that he has a debt to repay that has nothing to do with the cost of his education.

Mickle is in the Indiana University School of Social Work's BSW program and dreams about becoming a lawyer one day. But Mickle, whose friends call him BJ, knows he wouldn't even be in the position to wonder about what direction his life might take without the help others have given him.

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