Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power is on display on the 6th floor of the Central Library through August 5th. The exhibit blends storytelling and historical research to explore environmental damage and advocacy for justice as part of Indianapolis’s citywide heritage. It is a collaborative project of Indiana University Indianapolis Museum Studies faculty and …

“Indiana University has selected eight faculty members for the fourth cohort of the Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellows Program. The annual program supports the work of faculty who are poised to become national and international leaders in their fields. Holly Cusack-McVeigh is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology in the School of Liberal …

Dr. Laura Holzman, Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, was frustrated with conventional tools for measuring pain so she envisioned a new model, drawing from her expertise in visual studies and her experience as a patient. “A New Pain Scale” is now available, open access, through the Journal of General Internal Medicine.  Click here …

It was a busy week for IU Indianapolis Arabic and Islamic Studies Program Director Edward Curtis, the Gail M. and William M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts. On April 8, he received the Chancellor’s Award for Civic Engagement and then just five days later, Curtis took home the Asian Student Union’s Faculty Leader of the Year …

Join us for an interesting discussion in which faculty from IU McKinney School of Law and IU Indianapolis Department of Philosophy will debate the topic of “Is there a God?” Panel Members: John Hill, R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law, IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law & Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, IU Indianapolis School …

The act of storytelling is among the most profound of human endeavors. Across centuries and civilizations, we have crafted narratives to make sense of the universe and our place within it. Ray Bradbury understood this well. His work—equal parts poetry and prophecy—bridged the imagined and the inevitable, the speculative and the deeply human. And so, …

Indiana University Indianapolis Professor Karen Kovacik will be reading from a new collection of poems on Tuesday, April 29, at the University Library, Lilly Auditorium, at 7:30 p.m. “Portable City is primarily a travelogue composed of introspections on movement through both the physical world and nonlinear timelines. Introducing the concrete and the abstract to one …

Department of Communication Studies professors Drs. Maria Brann and Jennifer Bute and alumna Dr. Kelsey Binion presented recent research to health care practitioners at a plenary session at the international Institute of Reproductive Grief Care symposium. Their research, based on interviews with health care providers and patients experiencing pregnancy after reproductive loss, provides evidence for …

IU-I Professor Edward Curtis invites you to attend the Arab American Community Fair at the Indianapolis Global Village on April 12, 2025, from 12 Noon to 4pm.  A professional dabka (Arab line dancing), troupe from Detroit in addition to an art exhibit and free food are headlining the community fair. The fair, which will take …

The Indiana University Indianapolis Philosophy Department is proud to announce the publication of Dr. Kahn’s most recent book, Problem-Based Ethics. As noted on the Rowman and Littlefield website, as a broad critique and invitation to reframe the study of ethics, Problem-Based Ethics welcomes scholars and students across disciplines to engage with ethics as a way …