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Collaborative project uses animation to show importance of wildlife biodiversity in Indianapolis
How do coyotes and hawks help humans living in urban communities? During the fall semester, two IU Indianapolis professors teamed up to address that question by launching the Cultural Carrying Capa... Read more about Collaborative project uses animation to show importance of wildlife biodiversity in Indianapolis
$1M endowment from School of Science alum establishes scholarship in former dean’s name
In honor of former dean and professor Simon J. Rhodes, the School of Science at IU Indianapolis is creating the Simon J. Rhodes Legacy Scholarship, made possible by a gift from Kent Hawryluk.
$2 million NSF grant funds research into insects as sustainable ‘manufacturing plants’
To tackle food security and climate responsiveness on Earth, IU Indianapolis researchers will develop sustainable and scalable solutions aimed at shifting traditional agriculture toward a bio-based... Read more about $2 million NSF grant funds research into insects as sustainable ‘manufacturing plants’
Research Impact: Genetics researcher predicts facial characteristics from Copernicus to cold cases
The goal of Susan Walsh’s lab is to understand how and why people look the way they do.
3 science students battle frigid San Francisco waters to raise money for hydrocephalus research
After training for six months at the IU Natatorium, IU School of Science students Fatemeh Bidgoli, Verayna Newland and Cameryn Davis swam 1.8 miles from Alcatraz Island to mainland San Francisco to... Read more about 3 science students battle frigid San Francisco waters to raise money for hydrocephalus research
New admissible evidence introduced to Indiana courtrooms by IU Indianapolis forensic scientist
Research conducted by IU Indianapolis School of Science professor John Goodpaster helped nail the murder conviction of a Michigan City, Indiana, man and introduced a new evidence to Indiana courtro... Read more about New admissible evidence introduced to Indiana courtrooms by IU Indianapolis forensic scientist
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Project SEED Inspires Disadvantaged Science Students
July 02, 2018
AMS Graduate Student Chapter Highlight: Roozbah Gharakhloo
May 18, 2018
From The American Mathematical Society Graduate Student Chapter Newsletter, an interview with Roozbah Gharakhloo (from Iran), Chapter President, 2015-2017. The mission of the AMS Student Chapter of IUPUI is to "organize activities which effectively help graduate students to broaden/deepen their mathematical knowledge" and to "organize instructive activities which help students in a more general way."
Even brief maternal deprivation early in life alters adult brain function and cognition
May 03, 2018
INDIANAPOLIS -- When a baby is taken from its mother for even a brief period early in life, this traumatic event significantly alters the future, adult function of the brain, according to a new animal model study from the School of Science at IUPUI. These changes in the brain are similar to disturbances in brain structure and function that are found in people at risk for neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia.
