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Meet IUPUI's student commencement speaker
Chris Cardoza made his dream a reality coming to the U.S. for college and hopes to explore more of what the world has to offer.
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December 08, 2020
An associate professor of earth sciences has received a four-year half million-dollar grant.
October 01, 2020
NSF awards grant to IUPUI to explore role models for Black women studying STEM
Evava Pietri, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology at the Purdue School of Science, received the National Science Foundation grant.
September 02, 2020
Research completed by Partha Basu, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at IUPUI, is receiving recognition by Nature.com, Scientific Reports.
April 15, 2020
Gardening offers sustainable solution during uncertain times
Americans staying home to help flatten the curve of COVID-19 may have found themselves asking a simple question: how can I be more sustainable during these uncertain times?
April 15, 2020
Ian Webb receives 2020 ASMS research award
Ian Webb, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry at the Purdue School of Science is the recipient of the 2020 American Society of Mass Spectrometry research award.
April 13, 2020
School of Science chemistry undergraduate receives coveted Goldwater Scholarship
Scientist, social justice warrior, and physician. Those three job titles are the career aspirations of Purdue School of Science chemistry student, Nora Gilliam. She’s now one step closer to reaching her goal after being named a Goldwater Scholar. Gilliam is one of 396 undergrads chosen from more than 1,400 nominees across the nation.
April 06, 2020
Kirstin VanderWall didn’t originally plan on becoming a research scientist, her first career choice was actually an athletic trainer. Her interest in biology would take her on a different path, eventually leading her to IUPUI’s School of Science.
April 03, 2020
April 03, 2020
Nawara Abufares receives Women's History Month Annual Leadership Award
Nawara Abufares, a program assistant for the Life-Health Sciences Internship Program (LHSI), has received the , recognizing her outstanding contributions to IUPUI.
Meet IUPUI's student commencement speaker
Chris Cardoza made his dream a reality coming to the U.S. for college and hopes to explore more of what the world has to offer.
Blow flies can be used to detect use of chemical weapons, other pollutants
A study from IUPUI suggests blow flies could be used to detect the use of chemical weapons in remote or dangerous areas.
NSF award will help IUPUI train, increase diversity of next generation of cybersecurity engineers
The program is designed to address the demand for dedicated cybersecurity professionals in the United States.
Sustainability efforts at IUPUI to be recognized on a global scale
IUPUI staff will present on the role of higher education in environmental sustainability at the Vision 2045 Summit.
IUPUI scientist awarded $792,000 from American Cancer Society to study DNA repair
Lata Balakrishnan of the School of Science will study the role of DNA replication errors in cancer, such as pancreatic and blood cancers.
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