In a statewide competition, three teams of students developed innovative ways of tackling community challenges and new ways of funding municipal projects.
The new degree program at IWU is targeted at students currently working in healthcare who want to increase their career and earning potential and for those who wish to follow a bachelor's degree with a masters in another area of health sciences.
Ivy Tech Community College and Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis are collaborating to offer students the opportunity to "think globally, act locally" through a federal grant which aims to increase foreign language and international studies among undergraduates.
The IU Southeast team rallied from third place, nabbing first place in the final round of the annual competition to finish second overall, which tasked contestants with providing a full financial analysis and an investment recommendation of a particular company.
Faculty at IU Northwest will now have access to an array of tools to enhance virtual learning in a new facility housed at the Anderson Library Conference Center.
As part of its anti-racist agenda, IU Northwest is using an internal funding grant to help students complete their educational goals through financial assistance and access mental health resources.
Administrators report that measures taken by the university to decrease the spread of COVID-19 have been effective and that they feel they can bring students and staff back to campus this year safely.
Students at Grace College are pairing with residents of local nursing home, Warsaw Meadows, in a pen pal program that seeks to help the residents cope with the isolation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tammy McClish has been hired to direct the RT program at Kent State University's campus in Ashtabula. McClish looks forward to sharing her extensive knowledge of digital imaging and distance learning with students.
The university will use data compiled from the testing of wastewater from residence halls to track the presence of COVID-19 and fine-tune disease prevention strategies.
