The building housing IUPUI's University College will be named for Joseph T. Taylor, announced IUPUI Chancellor Charles Bantz, who proposed the commemorative renaming in honor of the man who served as dean of the Indianapolis Regional Campus from 1967 to 1970 (pre-IUPUI) and as the first dean of the newly established IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI (1970-1978).

Chancellor Charles R. Bantz

"Because he was instrumental in implementing the merger that led to the establishment of IUPUI, it is fitting that his name be attached to one of the original buildings," Bantz said. "As an African American, Dr. Taylor was a pioneer at every stage of his academic career. He infused that can-do spirit and ability to break new ground into the very core of what has made IUPUI successful today."

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Christopher Hardin, a senior in the IU School of Informatics, and Rachel Meyer, a senior from the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, have been named the top female and male students at IUPUI for 2008.

To be eligible for the 2008 awards, a student nominee had to be registered and in good standing at IUPUI and meet the following criteria: the student is a degree-seeking junior or senior on the Indianapolis campus; the student has completed a minimum of 56 credit hours applicable to her/his degree program; 25 or more of those hours must have been completed at the Indianapolis campus as of the Fall 07 semester; the student has achieved a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0.

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The fourth annual IUPUI International Festival offers the opportunity to experience the vibrant and growing international identity of the campus.

The International Festival will be held Tuesday, April 8, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Campus Center, Room 450. It is free and open to the public.

IUPUI International Festival Set for April 8

Participants are encouraged to wear traditional clothing of a country visited, country of heritage, or a country they'd like to someday visit and enter the best-dressed contest for a chance to win a $25 gift card from the Jags Bookstore. Categories are student, staff, and faculty. The student organization with the most entrants will win $50. Contestants should check in with the judges' table at any time between 10 and 2.

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In observation of Women's History Month, the Office for Women, and Campus and Community Life, respectively presented the 2008 IUPUI Outstanding Women Leader awards and the 2008 Outstanding Women Student Leader awards during the annual Women's History Month Awards Reception on March 27, 2008.

To celebrate this year's theme of "Women's Art, Women's Vision," the reception featured an exhibit of women's art curated by Stephanie Doty, faculty member at the Herron School of Art and Design, and a keynote address by local artist D. Delreverda-Jennings who also exhibited two of her works of art.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will host an official dedication ceremony for the new IUPUI Campus Center at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9, 2008, at the center, 420 University Blvd.

John Gardner, an international expert on the first-year college experience, will deliver the keynote address following greetings from IUPUI Chancellor Charles R. Bantz.

IU President Michael McRobbie will preside over the dedication of the Campus Center.

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Dr. Brian H. Clarkson, newly elected president of the American Association for Dental Research, will deliver the keynote address at the School of Dentistry's 16th annual Research Day, to be held on the first floor of the school on Wednesday, April 9, from 1 to 4 p.m.

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The activist and college professor who has been called the "Father of Environmental Justice" will speak on justice in public transportation during a half-day seminar at IUPUI on April 11.

Robert Bullard, director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, will be the keynote speaker for the "Just Transportation - New Routes to Equity and Opportunity," seminar scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m., Friday, April 11, 2008, in Room 101 of Lecture Hall, located at 325 University Blvd. on the IUPUI campus.

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The Indiana Student Access and Success Conference, sponsored by the Lumina Foundation for Education, will be held April 4, 2008 at IUPUI's new Campus Center, 420 University Blvd., Indianapolis.

Cliff Adelman, Keynote Speaker, is a senior associate at the Institute for Higher Education Policy. He's taught at Roosevelt University, CCNY and Yale and served as an associate dean at William Paterson College of New Jersey before coming to the about-to-be born U.S. Department of Education in the fall of 1979 on a one-year fellowship. He has turned out 20 research monographs on higher education and secondary/postsecondary transitions, three national longitudinal studies databases, dozens of articles in the trade and general press. He wrote the background study on which A Nation at Risk commission based its high school curriculum recommendations and designed and served as staff director.

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Dr. Paul G. Schervish, a nationally recognized expert on wealth, spirituality and giving, will be the speaker for the Fifth Annual Thomas H. Lake Lecture in Indianapolis April 10th and 11th. The program is presented by the Lake Institute on Faith & Giving at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.

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One in ten middle school students in the US is considered a chronic truant. If there is any hope to see a fall in chronic truancy numbers, public schools must be creative in developing opportunities for students to feel as if they are a part of their schools, suggested a study conducted by an Indiana University School of Social Work doctoral candidate, Carolyn Gentle-Genitty.

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Six Tourism, Conventions & Event Management Department [TCEM] faculty members will move their offices to the 1200 Waterway Building at the start of June 2008—a 1.27 mile 'trip' north from current offices in the IUPUI Physical Education/Natatorium Building. The 'space crunch' on the IUPUI campus and continued growth in student enrollment and faculty positions in the School of Physical Education and Tourism Management led to the move.

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Given some number of occupants, what is the probability that two people in the same room have the same birthday? You might take a guess, using your life experiences. Or, better yet, you might write a computer program to deliver a more exact answer. That's exactly what area students who competed in the IUPUI High School Computer Programming Contest did.

Fifty-one students from 10 high schools participated in the second annual contest, which was hosted by IUPUI's Department of Computer and Information Science. Students were presented with 10 programming problems and given four hours to write the programs. They were judged by the speed with which they completed the programs, and how the programs conformed to the specifications of the problems. Students competed in teams of two members.

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