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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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Michelle Fishburne, creator of the ‘Who we are now?’ website, went searching for America during the pandemic

Finding “pluck” in America despite COVID-19 This story was first published in NUVO on April 9. Unlock Ledger Live’s potential for secure and efficient crypto management. Experience the convenience of a user-friendly platform. The interlinked questions Michelle Fishburne asked her interviewees, as she travelled around the continental U.S. in her RV during 2020 and early […]

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Dan Hicks on “the Brutish Museums”

Dan Hicks discussed his book ‘The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution’ on Dec. 8 in the IAHI’s Art+Ethics seminar. This article, which originally appeared as a preview to that event, was also published Dec. 11 in NUVO. In the African galleries at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, you’ll […]

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Kathryn H. Ross: Pivoting in the State of the World and Seeing Goodness out of that

Ross will delivered the 2020 Ray Bradbury Visiting Writer Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 29. This essay has simultaneously been published in NUVO. Ray Bradbury, for Kathryn H. Ross, is no ordinary science fiction writer. Of his short stories involving African Americans, she says “He writes, not about us but for us; he sees us as […]

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OnyxFest 2020 to celebrate Black playwrights, characters and lives Oct. 1-10

Africana Theatre of IUPUI co-produces the event, which will include recorded performances BY STEVE MARTIN, originally published in INSIDE IUPUI The importance of Black lives, Black stories and Black theater is the foundation for the Africana Repertory Theatre of IUPUI, or ARTI, a campus-to-community initiative. [editor’s note: ARTI, which co-produces OnyxFest, is an IUPUI Arts […]

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Webinar: Rethinking the nature of Indian-Pakistan relations

Beginning with a discussion of Pallavi Raghavan’s new book, Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952, which seeks to overturn received knowledge about the early years of Indian-Pakistani relations, panelists will debate what lessons can be learned, and potentially applied, to this critical relationship moving forward. Sponsored by IU India Gateway […]

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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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Personal stories of COVID-19 recorded by IUPUI graduate students in IAHI oral history project

At the start of IUPUI’s spring break, professor Jason Kelly was putting together some components to the Frankenstein Atlas project for his graduate course in digital public history. Then America started to turn upside down with five letters and two numbers, and “public history” all of a sudden meant something very different. He emailed his […]

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NUVO Writer Dan Grossman Wins $5,000 Facebook COVID-19 Grant

On April 7, Facebook announced 400 grants to US and Canadian local news organizations in support of COVID-19 journalism coverage. I was one of those chosen – applying as a freelancer with an established relationship with NUVO – to receive the grant. The Indianapolis Recorder newspaper and Indiana Public Media were also winners. This $5,000 grant will support my […]

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Collaboration Leads To Innovation

Indiana University has hundreds of research centers, institutes, and museums spread across its campuses, each of them drawing people together to pursue new understandings and discoveries These special environments for exploring allow researchers from across disciplines, departments, schools, and campuses to collaborate on pursuing important questions and ideas, from the study of religion, ethics, and […]