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Ready for tomorrow: 2024 graduates share how they’ve prepared for what’s next

April 30, 2024
Nearly 19,000 students from nine Indiana University campuses across the state are about to graduate, 70% of whom are earning bachelor’s degrees. Five undergrads share how their experiences have s... Read more about Ready for tomorrow: 2024 graduates share how they’ve prepared for what’s next
New ‘Space Oddities’ podcast explores history and culture of solar eclipses

April 1, 2024
The IU Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute’s podcast takes listeners on a journey of solar eclipses across human history, from ancient Babylon to the first motion picture film recording of... Read more about New ‘Space Oddities’ podcast explores history and culture of solar eclipses
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences honored for student diversity efforts

March 29, 2024
The department in the IU School of Science in Indianapolis was named a partner institution of the American Geophysical Union’s Bridge Program, which increases representation of historically margi... Read more about Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences honored for student diversity efforts

$11.7M from Department of Defense to fund research on common complication to traumatic brain injury

June 14, 2023
Researchers at the School of Science at IUPUI will lead grants to fund research toward an effective drug treatment for hydrocephalus, a condition commonly associated with complications from traumat... Read more about $11.7M from Department of Defense to fund research on common complication to traumatic brain injury

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‘Pathway to Medicine’ will create direct track to medical school for IU Indianapolis undergrads

March 2, 2023
The combined bachelor’s/M.D. degree program will provide a direct path to admission at the IU School of Medicine for eligible first-year students admitted to the School of Science at the future I... Read more about ‘Pathway to Medicine’ will create direct track to medical school for IU Indianapolis undergrads

IU to develop science and technology corridor in Indianapolis

December 2, 2022

Indiana University, Purdue University announce new vision for Indianapolis campus

August 12, 2022
The innovative realignment plan will transform IUPUI with an enlarged presence by both universities.

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IUPUI study finds missing link between blow flies and possible pathogen transmission

May 22, 2018

AMS Graduate Student Chapter Highlight: Roozbah Gharakhloo

May 18, 2018

From The American Mathematical Society Graduate Student Chapter Newsletter, an interview with Roozbah Gharakhloo (from Iran), Chapter President, 2015-2017. The mission of the AMS Student Chapter of IUPUI is to "organize activities which effectively help graduate students to broaden/deepen their mathematical knowledge" and to "organize instructive activities which help students in a more general way."

New tool predicts eye, hair and skin color from a DNA sample of an unidentified individual

May 14, 2018

INDIANAPOLIS -- An international team, led by scientists from the and in the Netherlands, has developed a novel tool to accurately predict eye, hair and skin color from human biological material -- even a small DNA sample -- left, for example, at a crime scene or obtained from archeological remains. This all-in-one pigmentation profile tool provides a physical description of the person in a way that has not previously been possible by generating all three pigment traits together using a freely available webtool.

May 14, 2018

How Accurately Can Scientists Reconstruct A Person’s Face From DNA?

May 14, 2018

Fighting Fraud: CBS4 investigates how often hackers, scammers are hitting Hoosiers

May 14, 2018

Even brief maternal deprivation early in life alters adult brain function and cognition

May 03, 2018

INDIANAPOLIS -- When a baby is taken from its mother for even a brief period early in life, this traumatic event significantly alters the future, adult function of the brain, according to a new animal model study from the School of Science at IUPUI. These changes in the brain are similar to disturbances in brain structure and function that are found in people at risk for neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia.