Stories from 2008

September 23, 2008 |

Indiana University East is inviting high school seniors to submit their work for the second annual writing contest “Ink the Sheets.” The contest is sponsored by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Office of Academic Affairs. The competition has four categories including poetry, fiction, essay and literary analysis. Any high school senior ...

September 22, 2008 |

Jean Harper, assistant professor of English, has received the Goldfarb Family Fellowship for Non-Fiction Writers from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, located in Mt. San Angelo, Va. The fellowship was established by former board member Ronald Goldfarb, an author and literary agent. Print Quality Image Under the fellowship, Harper will receive a fully ...

September 22, 2008 |

Indiana University East will accept art entries beginning Monday, September 22 for the 30th Whitewater Valley Annual Art Competition. The competition will begin at 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 4 in Whitewater Hall. The top ten entries will receive a monetary award. Download the Print Quality Version Each year 300 to 400 pieces of art ...

September 22, 2008 |

The 30th Whitewater Valley Annual Art Competition will be juried by James Yood, an adjunct full professor in contemporary art history and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism. He is also the director of the New Arts Journalism program. Download the photo… ...

September 15, 2008 |

Indiana University East is well on its way to naming a new chancellor. Finalists for the position will visit the Richmond campus this month to meet with faculty, staff, students and community members. Following those visits, the next step will be for the university search committee that identified the finalists to meet again and make ...

September 3, 2008 |

Indiana University East has achieved a record high in total credit hours taught, surpassing the previous mark set in 2003. The campus has increased the number of credit hours taught by 8.6 percent compared to the same period last year. There are 2,447 students enrolled for the fall semester, representing an increase of 8 percent. ...

August 27, 2008 |

Alumni Board appoints new members Seven new members have joined the Indiana University East Alumni Association Board of Directors. The board serves to advocate for IU East and assists with events and programs that connect IU East alumni with one other and their alma mater. New board members are: Abby Clapp of Eaton, Ohio (Bachelor ...

August 13, 2008 |

It breathes. It talks. It does everything a human being can do but more importantly, the Nursing Kelly manikin simulator is teaching students in the Indiana University East School of Nursing program how to deal with and treat real-life situations. The nursing program has added four new Nursing Kelly simulators to its learning laboratories this ...

July 25, 2008 |

Indiana University East’s annual Moving On program for area youth will be held from Sunday, July 27 to Friday, August 8. Moving On is in its 18th year of providing a two-week summer academic and personal enrichment camp for Richmond youth. Moving On is part of the IU East Educational Awareness Project (E.A.P.) that targets ...

July 18, 2008 |

Jon Hughes is a journalist, author, playwright and self-taught photojournalist. “The City at Night” is currently on exhibit at the Indiana University East Meijer Artway in Whitewater Hall until August 22. Print Quality (200dpi, 480KB)   The ongoing project is inspired by the Hungarian photographer Brassai (1899-1984) who published his first book Paris de nuit ...