Convocation Launches Academic Year

IUPUI will start the academic year with its annual Fall Convocation celebration on Friday, August 25, 2006 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the gymnasium at the IUPUI Natatorium. The convocation will feature IUPUI Chancellor and Executive Vice President Charles R. Bantz, IUPUI Coaches Ron Hunter and Shann Hart, the IUPUI Scholars, and William Plater International Scholarship recipients...
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Career Center Seeks Employers for Employment & Internship Fair

The Office of Student Employment and IUPUI Career Center have worked for many years to provide job and internship opportunities to IUPUI students. As more and more individual departments and units begin to promote internships and experiential education, Student Employment is looking forward to the opportunity to partner with them to help IUPUI students...
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Fun Welcome Events at IUPUI Have Serious Purpose: Connect Students to Campus

When IUPUI students arrive for the first day of classes August 23, they will be welcomed by a series of events designed to get them involved on campus and in the community.

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International Expert on Simulation Education to Keynote IU School of Nursing Faculty Event

Jay K. Ober, PhD(c), APRN, BC, CCRN, CFRN, CEN, the Director of the International Academy for Clinical Simulation and Research at the University of Miami’s School of Nursing and Health Studies, Coral Gables, Florida will make the keynote address entitled, “Integrating Patient Simulation into Nursing Education: An Innovative Approach to Patient Safety” during the School’s Mary E. Culbertson Symposium. The IU School of Nursing (IUSON) will host nursing faculty from all eight IUSON campuses around the state on Monday, August 21, 2006, 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., at the University Place Conference Center and Hotel on the campus of IUPUI...
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IU Occupational Therapy Students Provide Backpack Education & Fitting

Along with pencils, paper and glue; backpacks are among the essential tools used by students to engage in their occupation of being students. Surprisingly, backpack related injuries accounted for approximately 7,000 emergency room visits in 2001*. A major factor involved in injuries associated with backpack wearers is the weight of the backpack. According to the American Occupational Therapy Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, fully-packed backpacks should weigh no more than 15% of a student’s body weight. Educating students and parents on how to properly pack and wear backpacks is an important step toward injury reduction and prevention...
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Regeneration of Human Tissue Research to Move Forward with $1.6 Million Gift

Imagine swallowing a pill that could help heal a spinal injury or restore degenerating eyesight. Imagine applying a “smart bandage” to regenerate an amputated finger or the tissue of an unsightly wound, rather than undergoing reconstructive surgery.

Sounds like science fiction. But drugs like these could be closer to reality than you think, thanks to the research by scientists of the IU Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded the Center $1.6 million for research on regeneration...
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IUPUI Black Studies Program Gets $499,000 for Expansion

Some universities are downsizing their Black studies programs. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis is among those bucking that trend.

The African American and African Diaspora Studies program at IUPUI, an urban research university of 29,900 students – including 2,800 African Americans, will hire three new faculty members, increase its undergraduate scholarship program and broaden its community engagement activities...
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IUPUI Police Nab Garage Theft Suspects

IUPUI police have struck back at thieves targeting vehicles parked in downtown garages, taking action that led to one arrest and an arrest warrant for a second suspect.

In one of the cases, an officer was making a security check of the Wilson Street Garage due to a number of thefts there. He noticed...
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Gerald Bepko, chancellor emeritus of IUPUI, has been appointed by Governor Mitch Daniels to a four-year term as a member of the Indiana Commission for Higher Education. He will serve as an at-large member.

Former Herron student Rik Tommasone designed the Lilly Medal that will be awarded as part of the inaugural Indianapolis Prize – a $100,000 unrestricted award to an individual making a significant contribution to the conservation of a single animal species. This cast bronze commemorative medallion reflects the commitment of the Eli Lilly Company, which provided initial funding for the Indianapolis Prize program.

Tommasone explained his own concept for the Lilly Medal design with these words: “The medal design concept is classical, with imagery that will never grow out of style. The design features a shepherd, who is associated with watching over his flock, a concept similar to a conservationist watching over a species. He is surrounded by nature, with plants growing upward to represent positive outcomes. The sun in the background is rising to represent the light that guides the individual to unselfishly help the cause of animal conservation. The round shape of the medal speaks to the circle of life. The organic shape of the plant is intertwined with the circle shape to represent the balance of life for all creatures.”

IUPUI Campus Becomes Tobacco Free August 14

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis is tearing down its smoker’s stations and hanging up its “Tobacco-Free IUPUI” signs.

Beginning Monday (August 14), IUPUI will be a tobacco-free campus.

The use or sale of any tobacco product – cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, snuff – will be prohibited on IUPUI property and in IUPUI vehicles.

With the new policy, administrators say the campus is taking...
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