MSW students Find a Home with Chuck Farrell, an IUPUI graduate and Lead School Social Worker for Lawrence Township Schools.

For the past eight years, Chuck Farrell has jumped at the chance to add a bit of extra work to an already busy work schedule. His Township provides the site and encouragement; he provides the instruction and support to an annually growing number of interns.

As the lead social worker in the Lawrence Township School System, Chuck provides field instruction for four Indiana University School of Social Work students and four psychology students from the University of Indianapolis.

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Anthony Faiola named Executive Associate Dean of School of Informatics at IUPUI

Bobby Schnabel, dean, IU School of Informatics, has announced that Anthony Faiola has accepted an appointment as executive associate dean (EAD) for the IUPUI portion of the School.

The three-year term is effective July 1. Faiola, who has been serving as interim EAD, was selected as the outcome of an extensive national search.

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Indiana Senate Honors Men of Iota Pi of SAE

The Indiana State Senate on Feb. 7, 2009, recognized the men of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Indiana Iota-Pi Chapter at IUPUI for obtaining their charter and becoming a full and permanent chapter within the national fraternity.

Shown are Bernie Reed (front, left to right), Derek Lee; State Senator R. Michael Young; Vice Chancellor of Student Life Karen Whitney; Psi Province President Fred Fritz; and Nick Sutton (back, left to right); Iota-Pi Chapter President Steve Oetting; Trevor Ciboch; Jarrod Otter; Iota-Pi Chapter Adviser Daniel Maxwell.

Seven IUPUI Faculty Tapped to Join Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching

Seven Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis faculty members are among the 17 recipients of the 2009 Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching award.

FACET awards are presented to faculty members from Indiana University campuses across the state who have demonstrated their exceptional commitment to teaching and learning through areas of self-evaluation, course preparation, research, instructional skills, and student impact.

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IUPUI to Hold Nobel Prize Winner's Q and A With High, Middle School Students

Imagine being able to seek answers to your science questions from a Nobel Prize winner.

That’s the opportunity students from two area high schools – and a middle school – will share during Research Day activities at IUPUI on Friday, April 24, 2009.

Nobel Laureate and physicist Leon Lederman will hold a question-and-answer session for local students as part of the IUPUI Research Day.

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National Empty Holster Protest

Adobe Product Specialists to Host Information Sessions

Conversation at Tea Time

IUPUI Adds Twitter, RSS Feed as New Tools for Emergency Communication

IUPUI is now using Twitter and an RSS feed to send campus emergency communications to faculty, staff and students.

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Emily Hickman's Attitude About Pressure: The More the Better.

Emily Hickman is a Top 100 student, a Cox Scholar, works 55 hours a week and goes to school full-time.

Is it too much to handle? No, says Hickman, a junior at IUPUI in the School of Social Work’s Bachelor of Social Work program. She looks at pressure the way a contestant in a hot dog eating event views another hot dog – the more the better.

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Discussion to Celebrate IUPUI/Latino Community Partner Impact

Sponsored by the IU School of Education at Indianapolis, Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., will lead a discussion about celebrating IUPUI/Latino community partner impact from 1 to 5 p.m., April 30, 2009. The discussion will be held at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Campus Center.

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Faculty, Students Recognized at Academic Honors Convocation

IUPUI’s outstanding faculty were recognized and honored and several students were presented with high-level awards April 17 at the Chancellor’s Academic Honors Convocation, a formal, robbed ceremony presided over by Chancellor Charles R. Bantz and Vice Chancellor Uday Sukhatme.

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