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Pulliam Trust Grant Boosts IUPUI Research to Help Blind StudentsA $115,000 award from a private trust will help School of Informatics researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis make computing more accessible to blind students. The Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust grant will help faculty advance their design of an acoustic user interface (AUI) that replaces text or number-based titles and file names with easily memorized "sound symbols." Such a system would help blind students more quickly access contents and files stored on their computers... |
A newly created renewable energy center at IUPUI has been named the Richard G. Lugar Renewable Energy Center, IUPUI Chancellor Charles R. Bantz announced today. Bantz said the campus wanted to name the center for Indiana's senior United States Senator because of Lugar's steadfast leadership on renewable energy issues. "Developments at the federal level underscore the growing awareness that renewable energy will play a leading role in ensuring U.S. energy independence," Bantz said... |
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Herron School of Art and Design Announces NEW Master of Fine Arts DegreeHerron's Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Visual Art and Public Life, set to launch in August 2008, offers a unique opportunity for sculptors, printmakers and furniture designers seeking careers in the visual arts. The degree program focuses on advancing the students' artistic vision and technical ability to the highest professional standards while developing career opportunities. Students are encouraged to work on projects that require professional practice and community collaborations while being mentored by faculty. Simply put, students learn... |
University Library Hosts Kurt Vonnegut Mini Film SeriesAs part of Indianapolis' Year of Kurt Vonnegut celebration, IUPUI University Library is sponsoring the "Writer's Mind" film series. This series of film screenings and discussions explores the life and literary contributions of author and Indianapolis native Kurt Vonnegut. A screening of Slaughterhouse-Five will be held on Tuesday, April 17 from 6:00 to 8:30 pm in the Lilly Auditorium (located on the first floor of University Library). Matthew Socey, NUVO film critic and WFYI correspondent, will give a pre-screening talk about the film. A post-screening discussion of the book's adaptation... |
Indiana University Experts to Study Potential Reforms in Healthcare DeliveryAt a news conference on March 21, Mitch Roob, Secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, announced the formation of a workgroup of experts from Indiana University that will study potential reforms in healthcare delivery in Indiana. "Unless we address the issue of healthcare delivery, Indiana and every other state in the United States is going to face a healthcare crisis," said Roob. "The purpose of this workgroup is to put experts from different fields in one room to come up with recommendations for the Governor and the Indiana General Assembly... |
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Author to Host Discussion, Book SigningDuring an upcoming lecture at IUPUI, Yale University Professor Harry S. Stout will discuss his latest book, Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War. The Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, part of the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, will present Stout's lecture at 6 p.m. on April 5, 2007, in LE101, with a book sale and signing outside LE101 beginning at 5:15 p.m. The lecture is open to the public... |
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