Indiana University said Michael Huber—who previous served as former Mayor Greg Ballard’s deputy mayor for economic development—will lead government relations efforts at the state and federal level as well as economic engagement.
Gov. Eric Holcomb’s visit will tout the Hoosier state as a key place for Asian companies to invest and manufacture computer chips and electric vehicle batteries.
Local business and tech-industry leaders say they see the effort as a chance to increase the pipeline of qualified employees who can work at local companies.
For some years, there has been a growing consensus that while IUPUI has been successful on many levels, there is an opportunity to take the presence and engagement of IU and Purdue to the next level in our capital city.
Purdue, which now has about 5,000 students at IUPUI’s campus, hopes to expand Indianapolis enrollment by at least 1,000 once Purdue begins operating its programs here under its own name.
In coordination with Purdue, Indiana University has formed at least nine task forces to tackle various issues related to the realignment of IUPUI—one of which is athletics.
The move is intended to drive growth in enrollment, research and particularly prestige, in part by eliminating the school’s tongue-twisting name. Purdue intends to grow its presence in Indianapolis as well.
For 52 years, IUPUI has existed as a sort of marriage between Indiana University and Purdue University. As they shift that relationship, here’s what we know about what will change and what will stay the same.
The effort involves manufacturers around the state capturing data about their energy use, then sharing that information to create a “data lake” which businesses and researchers can access.
Hobie Billingsley built the Indiana University diving team into a powerhouse, molded a legion of Olympic divers and trained a generation of instructors. Sports Illustrated once declared Billingsley “far and away the best collegiate coach in the country.”
IU said the center that will address issues of gender inequity, sexual misconduct and sexual harassment in the workplace.
Across the state, enthusiasm for sustainable energy is growing. And the state’s universities are leading the way with cutting-edge research and development projects related to solar, autonomous vehicles, nuclear power and more.
Fred Glass, who worked as IU’s athletic director from 2009 to 2020 after a long career in law and politics, will become chief executive of Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana on Sept. 30.
Christiana Ochoa, who is currently the executive associate dean of the law school, will start her tenure as interim dean July 1.
The university announced the gift Thursday morning from Jeff Albers, who graduated from the Kelley School in 1993, and his wife, Alison. Albers has spent more than 25 years in the biopharmaceutical industry.
Idaline Kesner is the first woman to lead the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, which has 14,471 enrollees in Bloomington, Indianapolis and online.
A name, image and likeness collective focused on connecting Indiana University athletes with local charities plans to spend $470,000 on its inaugural group of student ambassadors.
IU Ventures and its affiliated programs offer “a sense of optimism and sense of constructive change” for entrepreneurs—so much so that one decided to move his company from Chicago to Bloomington.
Lawsuits filed by students at Indiana and Purdue universities alleging breaches of contract when the schools moved to online learning because of the COVID-19 pandemic will continue, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
In 1952, an IU fraternity hired Mies, a pioneer of modernist architecture, to design a residence building near the intersection of 3rd Street and Indiana Avenue south of Dunn’s Woods. The project didn’t move forward, but IU resurfaced the plans decades later for its architecture school.
