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Spotlight: IU East School of Nursing students travel nationally, abroad to gain community nursing skills

December 1, 2014 | By: Hali Cartee

Nursing students from IU East stepped outside the campus and into different cultures during three recent real-world journeys. They immersed themselves into poverty, cultural diversity and community medicine in different areas of the United States. They presented papers, visited hospital and met with at-risk teenagers in England. They made eye-opening and life-changing discoveries that aren’t ...

Herbert Scholar and math student loves personal attention at IU East

November 28, 2014 | By: Hali Cartee

Indiana University East was in pretty heady company when Tyler Kennedy considered coming to Richmond to earn a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. He applied to only two other places—MIT and Rose-Hulman—for studies in his eventual quest to become an actuarial. He loved the smaller campus here, the talented staff and the fact that he could ...

Five Stars: IU East earns NAIA “Champions of Character” Distinction

November 26, 2014 | By: Hali Cartee

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Indiana University East is one of 168 colleges and universities that will be recognized with an NAIA Champions of Character Five Star Award for the 2013-14 school year, the NAIA announced this fall. To receive the award, members scored 60 or more points on the NAIA Champions of Character Scorecard. IU ...

IU East presents scholarships for high school students during Counselors’ Breakfast

November 20, 2014 | By: Hali Cartee

Indiana University East distributed scholarships to area high school guidance counselors from Indiana and Ohio during its annual Counselors’ Breakfast held November 20 in Whitewater Hall. This is the eighth consecutive year that IU East has hosted the Counselors’ Breakfast. Over 60 guidance counselors attended. This year’s theme centered on Rockefeller Center and New York ...

IU East News and Notes

November 19, 2014 | By: Hali Cartee

IU East welcomes new professional staff Richmond, Ind. — The Indiana University East welcomes new professional staff to campus this fall. Office of Admissions Hubie Branstetter, assistant director of admissions, primarily recruits and works with prospective students who are applying for admission to IU East, as well as assists parents and high school guidance counselors ...

IU East students traveling to Dominican Republic to construct, distribute ceramic water filters

November 17, 2014 | By: Hali Cartee

Indiana University East students are preparing to leave for the Dominican Republic this week to construct and distribute ceramic water filters for families in need of clean drinking water. Eight students will travel to the Dominican Republic November 20-25 as part of an online service-learning course at IU East. The service-learning course is the first ...

IU East honors Chancellor’s Medallion Recipients, Alumni Hall of Fame Inductees

November 14, 2014 | By: Hali Cartee

Indiana University East honored five individuals for their service to the university and within the community during the Chancellor’s Medallion Dinner held November 14 at Forest Hills Country Club. The Chancellor’s Medallion Dinner is one of many events scheduled during IU East’s 2014 Homecoming Week, November 10-15. The Chancellor’s Medallion honors individuals who have rendered ...

IU East students create over 200 ceramic bowls for Empty Bowls Luncheon Nov. 15

November 12, 2014 | By: Hali Cartee

Call them messages in a soup bowl. Students have been creating unique ceramic bowls by the dozens in the studio at Indiana University East. Hour by hour, over 200 pottery pieces have been thrown on the pottery wheel, fired, glazed and fired again. The last kiln was unloaded today (November 12) and now, the colorful ...

IU East’s Student Activities and Events Center Groundbreaking Ceremony celebrates campus’ fifth building

November 11, 2014 | By: Hali Cartee

Indiana University and Indiana University East today broke ground on the campus’ fifth building, a Student Activities and Events Center that is expected for completion in 2016. The Students Activities and Events Center Groundbreaking ceremony was hosted by the IU Board of Trustees, IU President Michael McRobbie and IU East Chancellor Kathryn Cruz-Uribe. Also during ...

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