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Four IU campuses receive Operation Diploma grants to support students in the military and vets
Four IU campuses receive Operation Diploma grants to support students in the military and vets -- Four campuses of Indiana University have received grants totaling $52,700 from Operation Diploma to provide additional support to students now serving in the military and to veterans. IU Bloomington, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, IU Southeast and IU East received the grants through an initiative of the Military Family Research Institution at Purdue University, which was created through a $5.8-million gift from Lilly Endowment. Each campus will use the funding for efforts to improve academic persistence and success among student service members and veterans. More than $270,000 was awarded to 21 higher education institutions in Indiana during this initial round of funding. Read the complete story. 2009 Wells Scholars announced at Indiana University -- Indiana University announced July 29 that 18 entering freshmen and two current IU juniors will join the more than 420 others who have been named Wells Scholars since the first class enrolled in 1990. The scholarship, created in honor of the late IU Chancellor Herman B Wells, ranks among the most competitive and prestigious awards offered by any American university. Wells Scholars have gone on to win more than 50 national and international scholarships, fellowships and grants, such as the Rhodes, Truman, Marshall, Soros, Mitchell, Churchill, Fulbright and Goldwater. The Wells program also offers special seminars; an optional year of study abroad; support for a summer research or service project, creative activity or internship; and a wide range of extracurricular events and activities. The Wells program emphasizes close interaction with faculty, academic and career advising, opportunities for community service and contact with distinguished visitors. Read the complete story. Indiana University Student Outreach Clinic to provide free health care to the uninsured -- People without health insurance will have another avenue for medical care beginning Aug. 1 when student volunteers at the Indiana University School of Medicine open the IU Student Outreach Clinic in a near eastside Indianapolis neighborhood. The medical school students are collaborating with students from Butler University's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, the IU School of Medicine Department of Public Health, the IU School of Dentistry and Clarian Health to provide free urgent care to the needy. The clinic will operate from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays at the Neighborhood Fellowship Church, 3102 E. 10th Street. A grand opening is planned from 11 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Aug. 1, at the church and tours of the clinic will be available. Read the complete story. IU to host conference on energy research -- In response to the growing challenges focused on global energy acquisition and use, close to 200 faculty from every campus at Indiana University will gather Aug. 6-7 to begin the process of formulating a comprehensive energy research plan for IU. IU's energy plan will identify pressing challenges in Indiana and the nation, and ways IU can contribute to sustainable solutions. Hosted by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at IU Bloomington and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at IUPUI, the first day of the conference, held on the Bloomington campus, will consist of a series of talks by national and state leaders to identify the most pressing energy related issues facing our society. Read the complete story. IU Simon Cancer Center's Tissue Bank collecting samples Aug. 8 -- Although Hispanic women tend to develop breast cancer less than Caucasian women, it is usually more aggressive and advanced when it does develop. That difference is one puzzle researchers with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center hope to address by encouraging women, especially Hispanic women, to donate breast tissue and a blood sample. The cancer center's Komen Tissue Bank is collecting breast tissue and blood samples from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, in the Hematology Clinic and Women's Center (second floor) in the new patient building of the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, 1030 W. Michigan St. Read the complete story. IU Jacobs School of Music appoints organist Jeffrey Smith to faculty -- Coinciding with the installation of a new pipe organ in Indiana University's Auer Hall, the Jacobs School of Music announced July 30 the appointment of acclaimed organist Jeffrey Smith, who will join the Jacobs faculty roster as a visiting associate professor in the fall of 2009. "We are absolutely delighted to welcome Jeffrey Smith to the organ faculty," said Janette Fishell, chair of the Jacobs School organ department. "Dr. Smith will join Professor Christopher Young and me in the exciting process of envisioning and embracing the Jacobs School of Music's defining role in 21st-century organ and sacred music education. Building upon decades of excellence in the pedagogy and art of organ performance and a longstanding commitment to training church musicians, we enter a new era in which our faculty and facilities support the training of organists who not only develop their full potential as performers and teachers, but study with equal vigor the art of improvisation, choral conducting and voice building for choirs throughout their time in our program." Read the complete story. IU Health and Wellness: Back-to-school issue -- This back-to-school issue of IU Health and Wellness includes articles about Influenza A (H1N1), important sexual health information for incoming college freshmen, nurturing kids' interest in technology, and an inside view of how a sorority polices members' "ladylike" behavior. 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