IUPUI Chancellor Charles R. Bantz, along with the chairs of the Multicultural Center Implementation and Concept committees, Susan Sutton and Sam White, Jr., met with the campus community February 13 to provide an update about the Center. The Center was described as a "work in progress" that will change and grow. Bantz said he was pleased that Kim Stewart-Brinston will serve as the Multicultural Center's interim director. Stewart-Brinston said initiating preliminary programming and identifying needed resources are among her immediate goals, along with reaching out to student groups to seek their views about the Center.

American Shakespeare Center Comes to IUPUI and Indianapolis

American Shakespeare Center Presents Henry V

The IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI will welcome the American Shakespeare Center's Piercing Eloquence Tour to Indianapolis February 25, 2008, through March 2, 2008.

During a residency that includes performances for the general public and high school students as well as workshops for area students and actors, the American Shakespeare Center (ASC) will present three of William Shakespeare's most controversial plays: The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, and Henry V.

All ASC performances are free to IUPUI faculty, staff and students; ID must be presented at the door.
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2008 Women's History Month Leadership Awards Nominations Open

Nominations are now open for the Annual IUPUI Women's History Month Leadership Awards for faculty, staff and students. As a part of the Women's History Month observance at IUPUI, women leaders from across the campus will be recognized for their contributions to the IUPUI community. All IUPUI students, faculty and staff may nominate women leaders for the awards.
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Taylor Symposium "Moment of Silence" to Remember Julia Carson

This year's Joseph Taylor Symposium at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will observe a moment of silence in memory of the late U.S. Congresswoman Julia Carson, organizers announced recently.

The 19th Annual Joseph Taylor Symposium will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., Friday, Feb. 29, in the multipurpose room of the IUPUI Campus Center, 420 University Blvd. Onsite registration begins at 8 a.m.

This year's theme is "'You Talking to me?' Political Messages/Multicultural Perspectives."
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IU Dental School Will Use Delta Dental Foundation Grant to Complete Treatment for "Give Kids a Smile" Participants

IU dental student Esther Ghebremichael (left) and IU dental hygiene graduate Bobbie Akers, Indianapolis, with one of the more than 100 children who were seen by IU dental school volunteers

The Indiana University School of Dentistry will use a $5,000 grant from the Delta Dental Foundation to provide additional treatment to some of the children who participated in Give Kids a Smile day at the dental school on February 1.

Give Kids a Smile is an annual American Dental Association program in which thousands of volunteers from dental offices, clinics, and schools nationwide spend the first Friday of February donating dental services to children from low-income, uninsured families. The event strives to treat children in greatest need, raise awareness of the importance of oral health to overall health, underscore the role preventive measures such as brushing teeth and seeing a dentist for check-ups play in maintaining a healthy mouth, and direct attention to the epidemic of untreated dental disease occurring in this country. The program is sponsored statewide by the Indiana Dental Association.
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Crystal Gold, Assistant Director, Multimedia Development Service

IUPUI's Gold Becomes Youngest Accredited Media Manager

Crystal Gold has recently become an Accredited Media Manager through Communications Media Management Association. Gold, Assistant Director, Multimedia Development Service at IUPUI University College, is the youngest CMMA member to earn this prestigious accreditation. Of the approximately 200 members in the CMMA, only 17 percent are accredited. She is now on equal ground with the elite in her field and is positioned to help shape the future of the profession and media management programs at IUPUI.
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School of Social work teacher steps in to assist a formerly incarerated man start a new life

For all practical purposes, Buddy Stapleton had been swallowed up by the prison system and forgotten.

A native of West Virginia, Stapleton moved to Hammond as a youth. But the truth was his real home had become a jail cell. Stapleton spent at least half of his 52 years in one prison or another.

During his last stint behind bars at the Pendleton Correctional Facility northeast of Indianapolis, he did not have a visitor - not a friend, not a family member, not anybody from outside the prison walls - in more than 10 years.
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Dangerous Duo: Hostility Plus Depression Elevates Risk for Heart Disease

Researchers led by Jesse Stewart, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, report that hostility and depression appear to act together in a complex way to elevate inflammatory proteins in the human body, possibly putting hostility plus depression on the list of risk factors for heart disease along with high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, and smoking.
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Paul Norris Elected Sergeant-at-Arms of Indiana Chiefs

IUPUI Police Chief Paul E Norris Jr., was recently elected to the position of Sergeant - at - Arms for the Indiana Association of Chiefs of Police. (IACP) This group represents all of the chiefs of police in the State of Indiana.

Under the current bylaws Chief Norris will eventually rise to the Presidency of the IACP which will make him the first African American to serve as the President of the Indiana Chiefs.
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IUPUI Summer Camps Unveil New Website, Registration System

The popular IUPUI Summer Day Camp and Sport Camps have introduced a brand new Summer Camps website. The site details all information regarding Summer Day Camp and each of the 5 Sport Camps. In addition, the site also has other great features including a weekly online newsletter, games for kids, picture gallery and more at www.sportcomplexcamps.iupui.edu.This great site will also feature a new online registration system, which will make registration quicker and easier than ever before.

Entering its 22nd summer in 2008, IUPUI Summer Day Camp has become the leading day camp in Indianapolis.
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> UROP Symposium Set, 2008 Summer Grant Proposals Due

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> Law Society Presents “Vagina Monologues”

> National TRiO Day Celebration

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