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 [...]

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 [...]

Voting ends Sunday for $2,500 scholarship UIndy junior Addie Ratcliff is a finalist in a national video contest with a $2,500 scholarship as top prize. The MindTap Slice of Your Life contest, sponsored by academic publisher Cengage Learning, invited college students across the country to submit short videos “in which you peel an orange in [...]

The student-journalists of The Reflector, The Reflector Online and UIndy TV won several regional awards last week and sent five entries to the national round of the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence competition. Kaley Belakovich and Anna Wieseman claimed a regional first place and were named national runners-up in the Best Online News [...]

Dr. Christopher Berger of the Department of Kinesiology features prominently in a story in The New York Times Business Travel section, discussing a favorite topic: How to stay healthy while traveling by air. An exercise physiologist and assistant professor at UIndy, Berger (pictured) chairs the Task Force on Healthy Air Travel for the American College of Sports [...]

A 1942 University of Indianapolis graduate will be inducted posthumously into the National Inventors Hall of Fame on Wednesday for his crucial contribution to deep-space exploration. In the 1950s, John Birden was working on Atomic Energy Commission projects at Monsanto’s Mound Laboratories in Ohio when he and colleague Ken Jordan developed the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, [...]