A top White House adviser on faith issues will speak Nov. 11 at the University of Indianapolis.
 
Interfaith activist Eboo Patel, recently named among “America’s Best Leaders 2009” by U.S. News & World Report, will deliver a 4:30 p.m. lecture and lead a 6 p.m. dinner discussion as part of the University Series and the Indianapolis [...]

University of Indianapolis trustee and alumnus Stephen M. Carson has been named to the Board of Directors of Tranzeo Wireless Technologies, a leading producer of high-performance wireless broadband and WiMAX communication systems headquartered in British Columbia
A 1968 graduate of UIndy, Carson has worked as an independent consultant since retiring in 1997 as vice president and [...]

Today’s Indianapolis Star carries a feature story on Professor Phylis Lan Lin and her work in building UIndy’s international relationships, such as organizing next month’s International Symposium on Service-Learning at the university’s Athens campus.
Dr. Lin also shares how surviving cancer increased her determination to make the most of her opportunities.
“Cancer saved my life,” she tells writer William [...]

The University of Indianapolis will put some new twists on a cherished campus tradition Thursday with its 21st annual Celebration of the Flags, organized by the International Division office.
Presented each October for the campus community and the general public, the event highlights UIndy’s international flavor with an Olympic-style procession of national flags representing the home [...]

July 30 was a big day for Dr. Mary Blake Huer, dean of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Indianapolis.
As a member and current president of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, a nongovernmental agency that works on behalf of people with speech disabilities, Huer helped to develop the United [...]

UIndy alumna Linda Dillman has been named a senior vice president of Global Information Technology for HP, the world’s largest technology company.
Dillman, Class of 1976, received the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004 and served on the Board of Trustees from 2005 to 2009.
At HP, formerly known as Hewlett-Packard, she will lead the IT teams [...]

Tackling the need for advanced nursing care, as well as Indiana’s dismal record on women’s health, the University of Indianapolis is launching two new options for graduate students in its School of Nursing.
Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner is a new specialty track for students in UIndy’s two-year Master of Science in Nursing program. The WHNP curriculum [...]

Forensic specialists from the University of Indianapolis are lending their expertise to an international effort to study and preserve Africa’s endangered mountain gorillas.
The work is taking place in the volcanic mountains of northwestern Rwanda, where zoologist Dian Fossey of “Gorillas in the Mist” fame lived among the massive primates and brought them to the world’s [...]

As speculation continues over the crash of an Air France jetliner on a transatlantic flight, a University of Indianapolis expert says recent events point to the possibility of terrorism.
Although there have been no claims of responsibility or specific indications of sabotage, the disappearance of a large airliner without warning is extremely rare, and investigators say [...]

Interactive video stepping games like Dance Dance Revolution can be a fun addition to a productive fitness regimen, according to initial findings from a study in UIndy’s Krannert School of Physical Therapy.
Students in a research course this year ran a six-week program in which 30 subjects met for three 45-minute sessions each week to play [...]