At the IUPUI Campus Center, college students and elementary school children sit together in pairs, bent over picture books, pausing in between pages to chat and laugh. When the children stumble over words, their mentors act as patient guides, providing gentle corrections and words of encouragement. ...
“The Price of Progress: The IUPUI/Indiana Avenue Story” play existed for the explicit purpose of starting a dialogue about the relationship IUPUI has with the history of the neighborhood it displaced. Part of the 50 year anniversary, this play prompted interesting questions as to how the university ...
Sexual Assault Prevention, Intervention, & Response (SAPIR) Task Force, is a coordinating council that plays a key role in making the campus a safer place. Every April, SAPIR offers a month of events dedicated to Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). This year’s SAAM campaign focuses on the power ...
The near west side of Indianapolis has a rich, predominately African-American history that precedes IUPUI by a century. To celebrate the campus’ half-century milestone and these community roots, the Multicultural Center has produced the play “The Price of Progress: The Indiana Avenue/IUPUI Story.” ...
The Green Bay Phoenix women’s basketball team came to the Jungle on Feb. 28, 2019 to defend their 2nd place ranking in the Horizon League against the IUPUI Jaguars, who entered ranked third. The Jaguars were victorious against the Phoenix in the previous contest in Green Bay. This time, it was the ...
Hundreds of people from different backgrounds, different cultures, and different beliefs gather in the Campus Center of IUPUI each year for one reason: for the kids. With their sore legs and stretched smiles, everyone stands, fights, and dances for the children struggling at the Riley Hospital for Children ...
If you take a trip up interstate-69 headed northwest from Indianapolis, past the glacial cut rivers of Fort Wayne and through the rolling hills just outside the Capitol region of Michigan, you will find yourself in the cozy town of East Lansing, population 48,844. This town raised IUPUI’s assistant ...
Indiana has a serious opioid problem and it’s only getting worse. IUPUI has partnered with state health leaders to address this crisis. Marion County has the highest death by drug overdose rate than any state in the nation with 37.4 deaths per 100,000 people. Of those overdoses, 81% of them were ...
Starting in February of 2019, students and faculty will have the opportunity to choose whatever book they want to read through the new system, Books on Demand powered by the University Library. “Books on Demand is a new program the library has launched that allows students, faculty and staff to ...
In IUPUI’s storied history, not everything is positive. Displacing many African Americans from their homes, many can look back and make assumptions about this school. Starting with their treatment of Black History Month, IUPUI has tried to rectify past transgressions. Black History Month’s origins ...
This past weekend, the Lady Jaguar basketball team closed the gap in conference standings on Youngstown State, then pulled away from Cleveland State in cruise control fashion, further solidifying a spot in the top four of the Horizon League Conference standings for Motor City Madness. IUPUI played ...
The battle for third place in the Horizon League continued today as the IUPUI Jaguars (14-11) were defeated by the UIC Flames (13-12), 76-75 in the Indiana Farmers Coliseum. Both teams entered the day with a 6-5 conference record, giving them both a share of third place in standings. The Jaguars triumphed ...
The new era of IUPUI volleyball began Wednesday when the athletic department named Lindsey Buteyn its new head coach. The hire was in-house, as Buteyn has been an assistant on the staff since 2015.She served as an assistant under former head coach Steve Payne. Payne, who served as head volleyball coach ...
After an undefeated season and a trip to nationals, many rugby clubs around the country would be satisfied and consider that a success. Not the IUPUI Jaguars Rugby Football Club, though. They have their eyes set on the spring season and a national championship. In the fall season, the Jaguars finished ...
The IUPUI Jaguars showcased their unselfishness in today’s win over Detroit Mercy by a score of 80-65. Detroit Mercy, as they have done all season, put together a 2-3 defense. The big men of IUPUI had great body movement and action, from the free throw line to the blocks. The movements were crucial ...
In the name of equal rights and treatment of women in our nation and around the world, the Women’s March on Washington was held in our nation’s capital on Jan. 19. The Women’s March on Washington D.C. was the march that headed hundreds of other Women’s Marches across the country, including ...
The instances of rape, fondling and dating violence reported on the IUPUI campus increased in 2017 compared to the previous two years, according to Indiana University Police Department data. The number of reported rapes increased from four in 2016 to eight in 2017, fondling rose from one in 2016 to ...
When you think of IUPUI, what is the first thing you think of? Diversity? Academic Success? The Natatorium? Parking, oh the parking! Those and many other of those aspects helped create IUPUI into what it is today. Since the downtown satellite campuses for Indiana University and Purdue University merged ...
The fresh market was first introduced to IUPUI’s campus in 2012 as a way to aid Healthy IU in bringing awareness to locally grown food and its benefits. The next time you can visit the Fresh Produce Market in IUPUI’s Campus Center is Feb. 21. The set up will be located on the first floor in front ...
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