Projects supporting this theme foster connections within IUPUI and the broader community through events and activities that promote engagement.
Projects and Innovators
Project description:
This project will establish four competitive awards for student-led, diversity-related projects designed by graduate-level students from Social Work and two from Philanthropy. It will also create a year-end event to recognize the Dynamic Diversity students and to share information about their projects.
Project members:
- Beth Wahler, MSW Program Director, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work (Project lead)
- Kathi Badertscher, Director of Master’s Degree Programs, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy (Co-lead)
Project description:
The next frontier in technology. Living labs to work on mutual problems with local companies. Provide state-of-the-art expertise benefiting local companies. Integrate this high tech area into engineering curricula and create job opportunities. Provide better collaboration between faculties from different IUPUI schools and attract better qualified faculty. Addressing brain drain.
Project members:
- Mohamed El-Sharkawy, Professor, School of Engineering and Technology (Project lead)
- Mangilal Agarwal, Director, INDI Center, School of Engineering and Technology (Co-lead)
- Rebecca Bartlett Ellis, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing (Co-lead)
- Josette Jones, Director, Health Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing (Co-lead)
- Dongsoo Stephen Kim, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology (Co-lead)
- John Lee, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology (Co-lead)
- Lin Li, Associate Professor, Earth Science, School of Science (Co-lead)
- Shuning Li, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Technology, School of Engineering and Technology (Co-lead)
- Xiao Luo, Assistant Professor, Computer Information Technology, School of Engineering and Technology (Co-lead)
- Felipe Perez, Fellowship Program Director, School of Medicine(Co-lead)
- Maher Rizkalla, Associate Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology (Co-lead)
- Ken Yoshida, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology (Co-lead)
Project description:
eSports@IUPUI student group invites talented high school students to compete in online games awarding conditional scholarships to IUPUI. Provides an opportunity for students to be involved in a way that no other college in the mid-west offers.
Project members:
- Noah Pumphrey, Student, School of Informatics and Computing (Project lead)
Project description:
Multidisciplinary Immigrant Youth Mentoring Program; design a year-long program beginning with an intensive week-long camp. Pair SPEA students with local immigrant youth to assist in adapting to their home and school environments.
Project members:
- Dona Sapp, Senior Policy Analyst, IU Public Policy Institute, School of Public and Environmental Affairs (Project lead)
- Silvia Bigatti, Associate Professor, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health (Co-lead)
- Rachel Thelin, Senior Policy Analyst, IU Public Policy Institute, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
