Abby Wilmes isn’t majoring in art at UIndy, but one of her works will be in wide circulation this winter.
Wilmes, who graduated this spring from Heritage Hills High School in southern Indiana, submitted the winning entry in the school’s annual contest to design the popular holiday “picture postmark” for the post office in the nearby [...]

As the Marion County Health Department faces the enormous task of vaccinating thousands of schoolchildren against the H1N1 flu, the UIndy School of Nursing is filling the gap with knowledgeable volunteers.
So far, nearly 50 nursing faculty and students are offering their time to administer shots or inhalable mist to children in the Perry Township schools. [...]

University of Indianapolis student newspaper The Reflector claimed its first national Newspaper Pacemaker award at the recent National College Media Convention in Austin, Texas.
The Reflector also won Best of Show in the four-year college nonweekly category. The Associated Collegiate Press competition requires the submission of five issues of the newspaper published during specified periods throughout [...]

An event Saturday night will mark a half-century of nursing education at the University of Indianapolis.
The School of Nursing 50th Anniversary Gala in Schwitzer Student Center’s UIndy Hall will include dinner, music, tours of the school and its simulated nursing laboratory, and reflections on the past 50 years. The event begins at 6 p.m., with [...]

Trick-or-treating in the residence halls and other Halloween traditions at the University of Indianapolis are featured in an Indianapolis Star photo gallery.
Photographer Charlie Nye captured several staffers, faculty, students and kids as they enjoyed the Oct. 29 festivities, organized by the Residence Hall Association, Circle K, Sigma Zeta, the CaLUB, the library staff and Experiential [...]

WRTV news carried a story Tuesday about the ongoing research into metal theft conducted by UIndy’s Community Research Center, part of the Department of Social Sciences.
Metal theft is a crime in which the damage to victims’ buildings and vehicles typically far outweighs the value when thieves sell the material to scrap metal recyclers. The latest [...]

Homecoming festivities Oct. 24 included the awarding of prizes in UIndy’s first annual Dog Bowl Video Challenge, in which students were invited to create brief videos explaining why they love the University of Indianapolis.
Winners were selected by popular vote on UIndy’s Facebook page, where the entries are posted for viewing. Elementary education major Ben Bertoli [...]

Above: UIndy alumnus Orvall McCleary chats with student government president Josh Elijah after the Oct. 24 dedication ceremony for a greyhound sculpture commissioned by McCleary for the university. Dubbed “Ace” in a student naming contest, the 6-foot, 300-pound cast metal depiction of UIndy’s mascot rests in the new rotunda entrance to the expanded Schwitzer Student Center. [...]

UIndy juniors John Lasky and Katie Gainey were named the university’s 2009 Homecoming king and queen at halftime of Saturday’s football victory over Ohio’s Tiffin University.
Lasky is a graphic design major from Corydon. Gainey is an English major from Greenwood.
Photo by Anne Toliver, The Reflector