UIndy musicians building goodwill in Taiwan
This poster announces upcoming Taiwan performances by UIndy music professors Austin Hartman and Kathleen Hacker. UPDATE: See video highlights of the Taiwan performances here. Faculty from UIndy’s...
View ArticleSingers to present musical history of Taiwan
A troupe of top Taiwanese musicians will share their homeland’s history through song in a free concert April 7 at UIndy, thanks to our Asian Programs office. Songs of Taiwan: Formosa, the Beautiful...
View ArticleHistory prof reflects on Thatcher legacy
Martin Hear WIBC-FM interview Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made an undeniable impact on her nation and the world, but she remains a controversial figure more than two decades after...
View ArticleProfessor Lugar to be knighted Tuesday
Lugar Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, now a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations at UIndy, will be knighted by the British government Tuesday in recognition of his...
View ArticleChanges announced for Athens Campus
As President Robert Manuel announced Wednesday, concerns about enrollment and revenue are forcing UIndy to phase out many of the programs at Indianapolis Athens College, more commonly known as the...
View ArticleUIndy alum named to Inventors Hall of Fame
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. Birden In the...
View ArticleUIndy prof honored for peace advocacy
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...
View ArticleGhanaian student’s essay wins scholarship
Sam 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...
View ArticleForensic team to aid in Texas migrant crisis
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...
View ArticleUIndy forensic team appreciated in Texas
Clockwise from left, Ryan Strand, Dr. Krista Latham, Jessica Campbell and Erica Christensen exhume the grave of an undocumented immigrant in Brooks County, Texas. Not pictured is Justin Maiers. It was...
View ArticleProfs to recount archeology work in Italy
Schmidt Drs. Christopher Schmidt and Gregory Reinhardt of UIndy’s Department of Anthropology will discuss their recent archeological work in Italy on Thursday during the first Faculty Forum...
View ArticleLecture: Missing migrants and forensic science
UIndy professor to discuss student humanitarian work in southern Texas Latham University of Indianapolis forensic anthropologist Dr. Krista Latham will discuss her volunteer work along the U.S.-Mexico...
View ArticleExperts debate Syria at Fairbanks Symposium
Robert Zarate of the Foreign Policy Initiative (left) speaks during Tuesday’s panel discussion on U.S. intervention in Syria, which also featured longtime Hoosier statesmen Lee Lamilton and Richard...
View ArticlePalestinian student beats odds to get to UIndy
UIndy student Fidaa Abuassi’s months-long odyssey from the Gaza Strip to Good Hall was featured today on NPR’s Morning Edition. Listen to the segment here. Fidaa Abuassi’s long, difficult journey to...
View ArticleProf. Lugar reflects on effort to aid Mandela
In news interviews Saturday surrounding his annual youth leadership symposium at UIndy, former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar commented on world affairs and looked back at his work in the 1980s to impose...
View ArticleLugar, Nunn to discuss WMD threats Feb. 25
Senators Sam Nunn, left, and Richard Lugar discussed their work on Meet the Press in 2003. Former U.S. Senators Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn, authors of landmark legislation to reduce the threat of...
View ArticleHistorian looks ahead to Beatles milestone
British Invasion’s impact transcended pop music, professor says There’s nothing odd these days about U.S. audiences falling for U.K. pop stars and BBC television, but a UIndy history professor says...
View ArticleLugar, Nunn to discuss global threats Feb. 25
U.S. Sens. Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar appear on NBC’s Meet the Press in 2003. NPR host Steve Inskeep will moderate televised conversation at UIndy The two men most responsible for reducing the world’s...
View ArticleNews roundup: mayor, president, professor
Ballard Where will Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard will deliver his 2014 State of the City Address? None other than the elegant Ruth Lilly Performance Hall of UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center....
View ArticleForensic science team plans return to Texas
Students raising money for humanitarian effort to ID missing migrants Assistant Professor Krista Latham and her Human Biology graduate students are back in the news again for their humanitarian work in...
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