Gates Foundation’s $750,000 Matching Grant Will Support National Study Aimed At Increasing Nonprofits’ Effectiveness And Sustainability

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University a $750,000 matching grant to help fund data collection in 2007 and 2009 for its signature research project, the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study (COPPS).

COPPS is the largest and most accurate study of charitable giving by U.S. households over time...
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IUPUI Awards 15 Scholarships To International Science Fair Winners

IUPUI presented scholarships to 15 students at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. The students were in Indianapolis for the 57th annual Intel ISEF to compete in 14 judging categories for more than $3 million in scholarships and prizes. Nearly 1,500 high school students participated from all 50 states and 40 foreign countries, territories and regions.

The 15 students (above) were presented with $5,000 per-year scholarships for up to four years at IUPUI...
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Would You Finish Your Math Homework for $500? 230 Central Indiana Students Competed for Cash Prizes

The IUPUI High School Mathematics Contest awarded more than $5,000 in prizes to 34 central Indiana high school students who completed problems created by college professors.

“While the contest solutions only require the use of high school algebra or geometry, the problems are much more sophisticated than typical textbook questions. Our faculty are always pleased at the number of students who accept the challenge the contest offers and impressed...
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IUPUI Campus to Become Tobacco Free; New Policy Promotes Health, Reflects Campus’s Health/Life Sciences Emphasis

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will be one of the first large urban universities to ban the use or sale of all tobacco products when the entire IUPUI campus goes “Tobacco Free” this fall.

Effective August 14, 2006, the use or sale of any tobacco product – cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, snuff – will be prohibited on IUPUI-owned, -operated or -leased property. The “Tobacco Free” policy will also ban the use and sale of tobacco products in university vehicles...
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Holy Pixelated Symposium! Animation Gurus Draw Bead on IUPUI

Want to explore a city in outer space or carefully traverse the mean streets of Sin City? How about joining a wisecracking wooly mammoth and his slap-happy sidekicks as they flee a meltdown, or perhaps accompanying a pair of crime-fighting Caped Crusaders?

Those and other destinations await participants attending the “Interface Symposium 2006: Celebrating Digital Storytelling, Multimedia Communication and Computer Artistry” at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis on June 2-3...
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