IUPUI In the News - March 14, 2006
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Eyewitness News at 5:30, WTHR, March 10, 2006 – IUPUI students take off for a week-long trip to the hurricane-ravaged areas of Mississippi. Three dozen students will spend their spring break helping with hurricane recovery efforts.
IUPUI Students Head South to Help with Katrina Clean-up/Rebuilding
Morning News on WRTV6, March 10, 2006 – "A group of IUPUI students are spending their spring break helping others. They are heading to Mississippi to help towns rebuild what Hurricane Katrina destroyed." The students will spend about a week in the area.
IUPUI Contingent Mississippi-Bound for Spring Break
IU Home Pages, March 10, 2006 – IUPUI students head to Waveland Mississippi, to help with rebuilding efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/2006/03-10/story.php?id=530
IUPUI Expert Comments on Lilly Endowment
Indianapolis Star, March 12, 2006 – David Bodenhamer, executive director of the Polis Center, part of the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, is quoted in an Indianapolis Star article about the Lilly Endowment’s focus on religious projects. The foundation’s focus “honors the bequest made by Eli Lilly,” Bodenhamer said. "The endowment has to be true to the terms of that legacy," he said.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060311/NEWS01/603110465&SearchID=73238337690923
IUPUI Expert Comments on Daniels’ Popularity
Indianapolis Star, March 5, 2006 – IUPUI political science Professor Bill Blumquist is quoted in a story about Gov. Mitch Daniels' plummeting popularity. Many Hoosiers say Daniels has pushed for too many changes, too quickly since becoming governor, according to the article.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060305/NEWS02/603050483
Career Center Gives Students Dining Skills Often Vital to Landing Jobs
Indianapolis Star, March 12, 2006 – More than 100 students attend the two-hour training on dining etiquette put on by the Career Center at IUPUI. “For more than 20 years, IUPUI has offered students the lunch that teaches them everything from how to burp at the dinner table (into a napkin quietly) to how to butter bread (bite by bite),” writes reporter Dana Knight.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060312/BUSINESS/603120356/-1/ARCHIVE
Hoosier College Music Programs to Explore Use of Internet2 Highway
INDIANAPOLIS, March 7, 2006 – Music faculty and administrators from colleges and universities across Indiana and other participants will gather literally and virtually at IUPUI to explore how to use the Internet2 highway for music performance, research and teaching.
http://www.iupui.edu/news/releases/060302_hoosier_music.htm
Global Warming Study Looks To Need For Modeling Regional, Local Climate Changes
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 15, 2006 - The debate concerning global warming has reached an important milestone: not if global warming is occurring - it is - but whether scientists can develop ways to more robustly predict climate surprises and foreseeable climate changes regionally and locally.
http://www.iupui.edu/news/releases/060215_global_warming.htm
IUPUI Computer Scientists Develop Revolutionary Medical Information System
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 22, 2006 - Two Computer and Information Science faculty members at Purdue University School of Science, IUPUI have developed an Internet-based medical information system which they believe can help propel health care into the hi-tech age, save lives and cut costs.
http://www.iupui.edu/news/releases/060222_med_info_system.htm
IUPUI Solution Center Awards $325,000 in Grants to Hoosier Businesses and Organizations
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 16, 2006 - As part of its ongoing commitment to increase the number of highly trained and degreed professionals in the state, the IUPUI Solution Center has awarded $325,000 in grants from its Community Venture Fund to 49 Indiana small businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies over the last six months of 2005.
http://www.iupui.edu/news/releases/060216_solution_center.htm
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