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Interdisciplinarity Public Scholarship School of Science

IAHI Works with Center for Urban Health and Community Organizations to Address Lead Exposure in Indianapolis

The Indianapolis Star has run a story featuring the work of the The IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute and the Center for Urban Health in the School of Science. The story features the IAHI’s Anthropocene Household project, funded by the IU’s Prepared for Environmental Change Grand Challenge. The Anthropocene Household Project explores the Anthropocene at […]

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IUPUI rates second in the U.S., and 28th in the world, in UN Sustainable Development Goals

Times Higher Education impact rankings released. In terms of of sustainable development goals (SDGs), IUPUI rates number two in the US and number 28th in the world according to the Times Higher Education impact rankings released Tuesday. But what, exactly, are sustainable development goals? According to the UN, sustainable development “meets the needs of the […]

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Faculty and Staff IU Community

Interview with Jessica Davis, Director of Sustainability at IUPUI

by Ben Valentine Editor’s note: This article was originally published in NUVO on Dec. 1, 2020. If you want to check out more of Ben Valentine’s interviews with environmental leaders click here. Jessica Davis is the director of sustainability at IUPUI, where she develops and leads a strategy to grow sustainability over the whole campus […]

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Events International IU Community

The Environmental Justice Seminar

The next online iteration of the Environmental Justice Seminar, “Indianapolis and Climate Change”, will occur on Nov. 5, 2020 from 5:00-6:30 p.m.  register here:  HTTPS://IU.ZOOM.US/MEETING/REGISTER/TJYOCUGQQZMSE9BTVJVZMOMHFL3H31TZJBPC The upshot of the inaugural Environmental Justice Seminar titled “Environmental Justice/Environmental Apartheid” is that systemic racism isn’t just limited to issues like policing and urban housing.  This seminar, the first […]

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Public Scholarship Religion Spirituality and the Arts

The Religion, Spirituality, and Arts Seminar continues on through COVID-19

In last year’s iteration of the Religion, Spirituality, and Arts Seminar (RSA), led by Rabbi Sandy Sasso, artists discussed the biblical Jonah text and took inspiration from the text for their own artwork. The artists — in media ranging from paintings and theater to music and spoken word poetry —  considered a wide variety of […]