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July 30, 2004
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Rags “The Hoosier Hobo”, aka David Ragsdale, entertained children recently during an event at Monument Circle. Ragsdale, who began his life as a clown in 1989, will teach the Community Learning Network course “Be A Clown!” beginning Sept. 7.
Fun-filled Course Teaches How to Clown Around Ever wonder what it’s like to live behind a big red nose? Or would you like to bring joy to others by playing the clown at a family or community outing? [Complete details] Photo by John Gentry |
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Local youth attending a summer camp at IUPUI put their engineering skills to the test in an egg drop at IUPUI. Working with non-standard building materials such as transparent tape, paper cups and paper clips, the students built crates designed to protect a cargo of one egg during a drop from the University Library balcony. Photos by John Gentry |
| The 23 campers, boys and girls who have completed grades 7 and 8, were enrolled in the second week-long session of the Minority Engineering Advancement Program (MEAP) sponsored by the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. Students attending the third session this week built Rube Goldberg machines to launch airplanes. | ||||
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Eleven students from Yeditape University of Istanbul, Turkey spent July at IUPUI as summer school students in the School of Engineering and Technology. In addition to laboratory assignments with IUPUI professors, the students toured area engineering businesses. During tours to Kelley Racing and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway the students learning about the roles an engineer might play on a motor racing team. |
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Area high school students visited Eli Lilly and Company as part of the three-week intensive Computer Science Bioinformatics Summer College hosted by the Department of Computer and Information Science.
High School Students Complete College-Level Life Sciences Course Not an average high school summer course, the IUPUI School of Science’s Computer Science Summer College for high school students proved young adults with training in the life sciences. [Complete details] |
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 These future college students try on the red and gold of IUPUI at the Future Scholars Photo Booth operated by IUPUI during Black Expo.  A staff member at IUPUI uses one of the new Smoking Stations installed on campus. Expanded Smoking Policy Brings New “Smoking Stations” Campus Facility Services has installed more than 100 “Smoking Stations” as part of the implementation of IUPUI’s expanded smoking policy. [Complete details] Researchers Examine Effective Government Reform in Indiana Many Hoosiers believe that you usually get what you pay for—except when it comes to government. With government, some believe that the cheaper it is, the better. [Complete details] |
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Annette Trierweiler is a Park Tudor student who worked with Lenore Tedesco and CEES staff on a microcosm experiment at Eagle Creek Reservoir. Trierweiler won a $500 award at the Intel International Science Fair in Portland, Ore., for her research project, "A Study of Zooplankton-Phytoplankton Interactions in Eagle Creek Reservoir." IU Alumni Association to Celebrate Its 150th Birthday August 2 An ice cream social on Monument Circle on Monday, August 2, will highlight the celebration in Indianapolis of the Indiana University Alumni Association’s 150th anniversary of service to the university and its alumni. [Complete details] Myers Accepts Position as IUPUI Registrar Mary Beth Myers, currently associate registrar and manager of Enrollment Services at Indiana University Bloomington has accepted the position of IUPUI Registrar, effective August 16. [Complete details] A Top Indiana University Grad Joins Pervasive Technology Labs Evansville native Charles Moad has joined the Indianapolis-based Scientific Data Analysis Lab, part of Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University, as a full-time researcher. [Complete details] |
Announcements ...
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HRMS, SIS and Self-Service (PeopleSoft) To Go Down for System upgrade
[Details] IUPUI Day of Remembrance [Details] Jags Bookstore ~ Important Dates and Events! [Details] New Student Health Insurance Provider [Details] |
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Indians, IU Docs Take Swing at Skin Cancer
[Details] Still Time to Donate Back-to-School Items [Details] The Ronald McDonald Open House [Details] |
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