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Posted on December 1st, 2024 in Announcements, Community Engagement, Creative Activity, Events, Faculty by Carrie E. Foote

Indiana University-Indianapolis Sociology Professor Carrie Foote, is featured in the #CelebrateUU Art Campaign which opened at the Indianapolis Public Library on World AIDS Day, Dec 1.  The exhibit highlights 25 stories of Hoosiers living with HIV in the modern era of U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable). With U=U, we know a person living with HIV who …

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Posted on October 21st, 2024 in Announcements, Community Engagement, Events, Faculty, Research by Carrie E. Foote

Professor Edward Curtis has added another documentary to his list of film credits, which include The Great Muslim American Road Trip and the Emmy award-winning Arab Indianapolis. Curtis, director of the Arabic and Islamic studies minor and the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at IU Indianapolis, recently served as …

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Posted on October 15th, 2024 in Announcements, Article, Award, Faculty, Publication, Research by Carrie E. Foote

Drs. Kenzie Mintus and Scott Landes (Syracuse University) won an Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Author Contribution for their chapter “Integrating the Social and Political Dimensions of Disability Into Life Course Theory.” According to the the Emerald Literati website, the Outstanding Contributions award recognizes “authors who have contributed something new and significant to their area …

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English Profs
Posted on October 12th, 2024 in Announcements, Award, Book, Community Engagement, Creative Activity, Events, Faculty, Students by Carrie E. Foote

Indiana University Indianapolis English Professor Stephen Fox, with the assistance of Senior Lecturer Mary Ann Cohen, manages the Hoosier Writing Project! For the 14th year, this project which is a site of the National Writing Project, partnered with other community members to host the Central and Southern Indiana Region of the Scholastic Art and Writing …

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Posted on September 23rd, 2024 in Announcements, Community Engagement, Events, Faculty by Carrie E. Foote

Professor Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, team member of the Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power exhibit, invites you to view the exhibit at the Riverside Park Family Center through September 28th. There will also be a public conversation on Thursday, September 26th, 5-7pm with photographer Wildstyle Paschall and journalist Enrique Saenz. They will be sharing their …

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English Instructors
Posted on August 21st, 2024 in Announcements, Book, Faculty, Grant, Students by Carrie E. Foote

In 2022, Writing Program Director Andy Buchenot and Associate Director Jennifer Price Mahoney began exploring the possibilities of developing open educational resources (OER) for W131, IU Indianapolis’s required first-year writing course. OER are teaching materials that use an open license, permitting “no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others” (UNESCO). They made this project …

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Posted on June 14th, 2024 in Announcements, Community Engagement, Faculty, Students by Carrie E. Foote

Professor Edward Curtis, newly-appointed director of Arabic Studies program, has announced his three-year plan for the future of the program. Curtis’ goals include the following: Community Engagement. The program will rely on a soon-to-be-announced Community Advisory Board to identify opportunities for mutually-beneficial research, teaching, and service both on and off campus with members of the …

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Posted on April 29th, 2024 in Announcements, Community Engagement, Faculty by Carrie E. Foote

On April 25, 2024, Edward Curtis, Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts (Indiana University Indianapolis), led the official ceremony to dedicate Indiana Historical Bureau’s Syrian Quarter marker at Lucas Oil Stadium, where immigrants from the Eastern Mediterranean developed the first Arabic-speaking neighborhood in Indianapolis. Speakers included Curtis, who is also President of Arab Indianapolis Foundation, …

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Posted on April 16th, 2024 in Announcements, Creative Activity, Faculty, Media, Publication, Research by Carrie E. Foote

Professor Chris Lamb with the Department of Journalism and Public Relations at IU Indianapolis, teaches a course called Fake News. The course name was inspired by President Donald Trump, who falsely claimed to have invented the term. Trump’s lies and misstatements are well chronicled. As he explains, “I wanted to chronicle his failure as a …

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Posted on March 29th, 2024 in Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, Research, Student/Alumni by Carrie E. Foote

To an audience representing 30 states and 5 countries, Dr. Kelsey Binion, recent graduate from the Health Communication PhD Program, and Dr. Maria Brann, professor of Communication Studies, presented a plenary session titled, “Exploring the Use of Theatre to Inform and Shape Behaviors About Infertility” at the annual Institute of Reproductive Grief Care symposium. They …

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