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Ivy Tech Community College is naming a new student resource center on its Indianapolis campus after late U.S. Rep. Julia
Carson.
The Julia Carson Learning Resource Center will house the Indianapolis campus's library and tutoring labs, a local bus
hub and a 500-space parking garage. The building is being built along Fall Creek on the near north side of Indianapolis and
is scheduled to open in November.
Carson's grandson and successor as U.S. representative, Andre Carson, is due to attend a naming ceremony Monday with
Ivy Tech President Thomas Snyder and other officials.
Julia Carson was first elected to Congress in 1996, becoming the first woman and the first African-American to represent
Indianapolis in Congress. She died of lung cancer on Dec. 15, 2007, at the age of 69.
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