Worthy Purse Strings Tie Vera Bradley Foundation $6.8 M Gift to IU Cancer Center
The Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer is increasing its support of the Indiana University Cancer Center with a $6.8 million gift, bringing the total commitment by the Fort Wayne, Indiana-based foundation to more than $10 million in gifts to IU.
The gift will support the IU Breast Cancer Research Program, a multidisciplinary program that includes basic science and clinical investigators from 11 departments...
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IUPUI Motorsports Students Get “Dream” Internships with IRL, Champ Car
Four students from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) will serve summer internships in the major leagues of motorsports.
Enrollment in the university’s Motorsports Technology Certificate program in the School of...
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Nursing Students Teach ABCs of Healthy Lifestyle
Success can be shown in different ways, including a single slice of pizza and a carton of plain milk on a student’s cafeteria tray.
For Terrilynn Quillen, an IU School of Nursing (SON) graduate student, the lunch showed the student had made “a good start” toward selecting healthier meal choices.
Quillen, another SON graduate student and nine SON undergraduate students...
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IUPUI To Participate in ACE Roundtable
Susan Buck Sutton, Associate Dean of International Programs, is one of 15 scholars, practitioners, and institutional leaders from across the U.S. invited to participate in a special American Council on Education (ACE) roundtable in Washington, DC late July 2006. The roundtable is being organized by two ACE units: the Center for International Initiatives and the Center for Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Equity. The roundtable will clarify...
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High Obesity Rate Increases Healthcare Costs in Indiana
The obesity crisis costs the United States an estimated 75 billion dollars a year, and results in higher healthcare costs for people in both private and tax-funded insurance plans. Unfortunately, Indiana sits near the heavy end of the scales, ninth among the states in the percentage of the population who are obese. As a result, the state contends with high per capita healthcare costs and high rates of obesity-related diseases...
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John L. Krauss Elected President of the Indianapolis Museum of Art Board of Governors
John L. Krauss, director of the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, was elected president of the Board of Governors of the Indianapolis Museum of Art for a one-year term. Krauss, a clinical professor of public and environmental affairs and adjunct professor of law on the IUPUI campus, has served on the IMA Board of Governors since 2001.
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A Pear Coffee Table made of Australian lacewood with a cocobolo stem is one of the items on display at the “Show Us Your Drawers” juried exhibition of furniture created by recognized professional studio furniture makers from the United States, Canada and beyond on display at Herron School of Art and Design through August 6. “Show Us Your Drawers” serves as the centerpiece of a citywide display of contemporary furniture design, which will complement the Furniture Society’s National Conference hosted by Herron. |
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