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Posted on April 14th, 2025 in Announcements, Award, Community Engagement, Faculty, Research, Students by Carrie E. Foote

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 …

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IU philosophy
Posted on April 10th, 2025 in Announcements, Community Engagement, Events, Faculty by Carrie E. Foote

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 …

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Posted on April 6th, 2025 in Community Engagement, Events, Faculty, Students by Carrie E. Foote

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, …

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Posted on April 3rd, 2025 in Book, Community Engagement, Events, Faculty, Publication by Carrie E. Foote

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 another, …

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Drs Brann and Bute
Posted on April 1st, 2025 in Faculty, Research, Student/Alumni by Carrie E. Foote

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 …

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