UIndy News

As his acting career expands from stage to TV to film, former UIndy student Adam Driver is the subject of a profile in Newsweek. As the story points out, Driver has become something of a heartthrob for his “romantic antihero” role as Adam Sackler in the popular HBO series Girls. He co-stars in the acclaimed new indie [...]

The 1860 presidential election – which sent Abe Lincoln to the White House and stoked the fires of Secession and Civil War – is widely considered the most important in our nation’s history. However, the conventional focus on the campaign between Republican Lincoln and Democrat Stephen Douglas ignores complexities in the story that reveal much [...]

UIndy’s student-run public relations agency, Top Dog Communication, claimed the two top student honors Wednesday at the annual Pinnacle Awards, presented by the Hoosier Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. In the programs category, which covers all the strategy and elements of an entire PR campaign, the honors went to a team led by senior Hannah [...]

A UIndy forensic anthropologist and her students will spend next week in Texas exhuming graves like this one as part of an ongoing effort to identify and repatriate the remains of people who die after crossing the border. Watch WTHR report So many undocumented migrants are turning up dead in rural Brooks County, Texas, that [...]

Hear Dr. Knapp on Inside Indiana Business A professor with extensive experience in project management and information technology has been named acting dean of the University of Indianapolis School of Business. Karl Knapp joined the UIndy faculty in 2006 and has been serving as an associate professor of business administration. Executive Vice President and Provost [...]

UIndy’s varsity athletic teams have claimed the Great Lakes Valley Conference All-Sports Trophy for the second year in a row and the fifth time overall. The award recognizes the institution with the year’s best all-around performance in the GLVC’s 18 sponsored sports.  Points are allocated based on overall finish in the league standings and in each sport’s conference [...]

David Dresslar, executive director of UIndy’s Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning, was invited to to write an opinion column for the latest Indianapolis Business Journal about Indiana’s debate over Common Core education standards. “Controversy over education policy is normal and healthy for the Indiana General Assembly, but this session’s pointless rancor over Common Core State Standards has only hindered [...]

Just wrapping up his first year at UIndy, international student Henry Sam has received a $1,000 boost in his quest to become a physician and work for the betterment of his native Ghana. A biology and chemistry double major with a pre-med concentration, Sam landed the scholarship money by placing second in a national essay contest [...]

UIndy’s Hiroshima Peace Study group visits the Atomic Bomb Dome, a stark remnant of World War II’s destruction. Associate Professor of English Kyoko Amano will be honored this month while on a Spring Term tour of Japan. The current trip, with faculty colleague Greta Pennell and 12 students, is Amano’s third travel course focusing on global peace efforts and [...]

UPDATE: Hounds advance to Super Regional The Indianapolis Star has a story about the UIndy softball team, still ranked No. 1 nationally as it prepares to host NCAA Division II Midwest Regional action this weekend at Baumgartner Field. Writer Mark Ambrogi talks to senior pitcher Jennifer DeMotte, sophomore outfielder Casey Williamson (Conference Player of the [...]