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IUPUI students create COVID-19 social media relief pages to help Indy residents

These are trying times for students across the world as campuses have emptied out, coursework is fully online and a new reality has set in. For many, it’s hard enough to handle the changes in our own lives. But for six IUPUI students, the changes in life have prompted action to assist others. Nirupama Devanathan, […]

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A Profile of IAHI Research Grant Recipient Holly Cusack-McVeigh

By Dan Grossman Holly Cusack-McVeigh, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has been recognized by the FBI —  along with her graduate students — for her efforts to repatriate stolen artifacts to Haiti and China. She has also researched the importance of place among the Yup’ik Eskimos on the […]

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7 facts about the 2020 International Festival

Who says you need a passport to experience some global culture? The IUPUI International Festival returns to the Campus Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27. The Office of International Affairs signaled the festival’s imminent return with the installation of the flags this week at the Campus Center. In its 16th year, […]

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IUPUI students help preserve endangered species with augmented reality app

What does IUPUI have in common with the southern white rhino, flatback sea turtle and Caribbean reef shark? No, they aren’t firing off wicked jackknife dives in the Natatorium. Under the direction of professor Zebulun Wood, a team of four informatics and computing students, led by Drennen Dooms, has been working for University of Massachusetts professor Duncan […]