Hoosiers being Hoosiers: News at IU: Indiana University

IU faculty, staff, students and alumni are dedicated to the university, and this dedication often extends beyond IU and into their communities. During this unprecedented time, they are serving in new and expanded ways. These are their stories.

'Romeo and Juliet': IU Southeast offers theatre for a star-crossed year

In this most star-crossed of years, the persistence and passion of IU Southeast adjunct lecturer Daniel Hill brought Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" to the campus's stage and to the public.

Nursing students serve as COVID-19 vaccination volunteers

IU Kokomo nursing students have played a vital role in curbing the COVID-19 pandemic, volunteering thousands of hours to give vaccinations at community clinics.

Read about the nursing students' service

Graphic that says 'I got the people's vaccine'

'Creativity vs. COVID' uses artistic activism to communicate needs for vaccine

IUPUI associate professor Laura Holzman curated a new art exhibit in collaboration with other members of the Free the Vaccine collective.

Breath test to detect COVID-19 in development by IUPUI researchers

A team of IUPUI researchers, led by Mangilal Agarwal from the School of Engineering and Technology, is setting out to try to create a device that could make detection of COVID-19 quicker and easier.

IU medical students volunteer to administer COVID-19 vaccines

Health officials for the state of Indiana called upon IU School of Medicine to train a volunteer army of students who will be on call to administer COVID-19 vaccines.

Read about how IU medical students are serving

IU East students take lead in ongoing mitigation testing

IU East students are playing a vital role in the ongoing COVID-19 mitigation testing, staffing the program and gaining helpful and even positive experience in the process.

Read about IU East students' service

Student-led project helps community make and distribute free masks

The Mask Project at IU, involving nearly 80 students who are mostly on pre-medicine or pre-health tracks, has been helping Bloomington Mask Drive make, package and distribute masks.

Backpack Blessings tackles food insecurity with weekend meals for Ellettsville students

IU Bloomington employee Chuck Aikman and his wife, Sharon, have delivered more than 50,000 weekend meals to food-insecure students at three Ellettsville schools.

Read about Chuck Aikman

David Thompson and Nicole Kearney of Sip and Share Wines

Kelley School's HOPE Digital Project helps more than 360 Hoosier ventures through pandemic

During the pandemic, more than 360 small businesses and public organizations in 52 counties across Indiana have been helped through a no-cost assistant program by the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.

How an IU student's meditation app boomed with downloads during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sagar Vasnani's app, Let's Meditate, offers a straightforward approach to meditation and wellness, with various guided meditation tracks for anxiety, healing and sleep, among others.

Read about Sagar Vasnani's app

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Computer donation program supports remote learning for IU students in need

Two Ph.D. candidates in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Biology at IU Bloomington are working with the IU Center of Excellence for Women & Technology to ensure that any IU student who needs a laptop can get one.

Find out more about the program

IU lab provides essential service to Hoosier dentists during pandemic

The School of Dentistry's Sterilization Monitoring Service offers safety testing and consultation to dentists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, and tattoo artists across Indiana.

Learn more about the service

Nurse smiles in hospital hallway wearing scrubs, a Cubs head covering and a blue mask

IU Northwest nursing alumni step up to the front lines

Creating experiences and lessons that no one expected, the pandemic is fanning new nurses' desire for impact, change and continued education.

Read about the nurses

iDEW students look at a laptop with a robotic car on the table next to it

Virtual summer program provides IT training to Indianapolis youth

IUPUI's Informatics Diversity-Enhanced Workforce program has launched a summer program providing educational opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read about the program

Student's work with Indy Urban League puts her on COVID-19 front lines

After IUPUI's Kennady Livers' academic year was cut short due to COVID-19, she emerged on the front lines of the pandemic, interning at the Indianapolis Urban League and helping the city's residents get back on their feet.

IU Southeast professor leads printmaking collaboration to support artists during pandemic

Assistant professor Susanna Crum and her partner, artist and educator Rudy Salgado, invited 19 artists with ties to the area to publish open editions of their work, with proceeds from the sales going to help fellow artists during the pandemic.

Read about the initiative

FSPH professor partners with Simon Property Group on curbside and reopening policies

IUPUI's Jiali Han partnered with Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group to help define the company's policies for curbside pickup and more than 45 mall and outlet center reopenings across the nation.

Read about Han's influence

IU employee starts food train to aid local residents

IU Bloomington's Nichelle Whitney started a food train to provide meals to low-income students during the pandemic, but the effort has grown larger.

Learn more about Whitney's effort

Connecting loved ones in a crisis through technology

UITS, the university's information technology division, donated iPads to IU Health and senior living communities in and around Bloomington to help families communicate in this time of visitor restrictions.

IU Army ROTC seniors build ventilators at General Motors plant in Kokomo

Alex Combs and Kate Wampler, who are engaged to be married in September, reported for duty at GM on April 20.

Read about their experience

Two female graduate students mobilize 3D printing for COVID-19

Wanting to help the community in this time of crisis, IU Bloomington graduate students Lauren Yadavia and Megan Wade researched how to apply additive manufacturing to help fill the need for more PPE for first responders and health care workers.

Learn more about their project

A helping home in the midst of COVID-19

IU Southeast UITS employee Milton Trent loaned his RV to a New Albany emergency room doctor on the frontlines of COVID-19.

Find out why

IU South Bend student activist starts collective to assist her neighbors

Junior Mya Perry inspired her friends and fellow activists to start South Bend Mutual Aid, a neighborhood collective designed to support South Bend residents impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learn more about Perry's work

Boxes of cereal next to an IUPUI jaguar toy

IUPUI senior inspires her sorority to give back by supporting local food bank

Feeling compelled to help those vulnerable to inequities during this pandemic, IUPUI senior Jadah Cunningham organized a food drive through her sorority to help combat food insecurity.

Read about Cunningham's effort

Assistant professor Berkson poses with a group dressed in Burmese garb.

IU linguistics students translate COVID-19 materials

When Indiana issued a statewide stay-at-home order in March, IU assistant professor of linguistics Kelly Berkson and her students in the Chin Languages Research Project worked quickly to translate vital information for the state's Burmese population.

Learn how their work began

New app to help 2 rural Indiana counties track COVID-19 symptoms

IU public health researchers are teaming up with the IU Center for Rural Engagement to help two rural Indiana counties use data to track patient reports of COVID-19 symptoms in their area.

Read more about where the app will be used

IU using 3D printers to make face shields and other medical equipment

Faculty and staff across several disciplines have been using 3D printers at campuses across the state to churn out face shields and other medical equipment to help during the coronavirus pandemic.

IUPUI students create COVID-19 social media relief pages to help Indy residents

Six IUPUI students came together to create pages on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram that collect and post resources for Indianapolis residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learn about their efforts

Student starts Quarantine Buddies program to connect those isolating at home

Evan Catron struggled with depression while having to quarantine himself during the COVID-19 crisis, so he started a program that matches people based on similar interests so they have someone for support.

IU Surplus furnishes COVID-19 isolation shelter for homeless

IU Surplus is meeting the call for assistance during the COVID-19 crisis by donating beds, tables, chairs and other items to furnish an isolation shelter for the homeless in Bloomington.

Read about the donation

Origami artist turns to folding face masks amid pandemic need

Jiangmei Wu, who is known for her folded origami artwork, has created a template and guide for folding a face mask. Wu, an assistant professor of interior design in the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design at IU Bloomington, hopes the template will be useful for people who do not sew. Using her knowledge of a technique typically used in lampshades, Wu was able to create a face mask that can fit anyone's profile.

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[Words appear under trident: Indiana University]

[Words appear at the bottom: indiana.edu.]

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[Title appears next to trident: Folding a Mask with Jiangmei Wu]

[Word appear below title: Needed materials: scissors, twist tie, 2x elastic strips, 1x HEPA filter (design may differ)]

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[Image: a printable guide for making foldable face masks for adults and children appears]

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[Video: a HEPA filter, like for a vacuum cleaner, is lying on a table]

[Words appear at bottom of screen: Lay out filter so it is flat and even. May need to adjust according to design of filter.]

[Video: Hands remove the cardboard tab, like where the hose goes, from the filter.]

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[Video: hands trace outline of the foldable mask using the printable guide.]

[Words appear: Step 2. Align and Trace the template on your filter.]

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[Words appear: Step 3. Cut outside the lines.]

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[Words appear: Step 4. Align template and mark pleating points.]

[Video: hands place twist-tie in the tab created in the filter by the cutting and fold over.]

[Words appear: Step 5. Place twist-tie in the tab and fold over.]

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[Words appear: Step 6. Staple shut.]

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[Words appear: Step 11. Add more staples around edges to secure mask.]

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[Words appear: Step 12. Staple elastic bands to the mask.]

[Video: Hands staple elastic bands to the mask.]

[Words appear: Note: Mark both sides of mask for easy stapling.]

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Indiana University provides free Wi-Fi access in response to COVID-19 crisis

IU is providing "lot hot spots" -- free, 24-hour, high-speed Wi-Fi access that allows for social distancing -- to the IU community and the general public who may not have internet connectivity due to COVID-19-related library and business closures.

Learn more about the hot spots

Participants join the new Indiana COVID-19 Response ECHO via videoconferencing.

Free virtual COVID-19 training for health care workers offered by IUPUI-led program

IU faculty and staff are helping the state's health care workforce respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by providing free virtual training focused on issues related to the novel coronavirus.

Read about the training

COVID-19 cases, area risk estimates and more compiled on data hub created by Polis Center

The Polis Center at IUPUI is applying its years of community knowledge and extensive data resources into a website that is proving to be a key bookmark in the COVID-19 information marketplace.

Learn about the data hub

Kelley School initiative results in more than 21,000 surgical masks donated to hospitals

In the fight against the novel coronavirus, a social grassroots venture started by students and faculty at the IU Kelley School of Business has been working to get N95 and surgical masks to hospitals and to the life-saving doctors and nurses who need them.

Learn about the initiative

Librarians fighting COVID-19 pandemic with their best asset: Facts

IUPUI librarians are working with a team to help answer COVID-19-related questions from state leaders and health care providers involved in Indiana's frontline response to the pandemic.

See the work they're doing

Emergency Meals Project tackles food insecurity in IU community during pandemic

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, IU Dining and the IU Food Institute, with the aid of some other campus entities, have started the Emergency Meals Project to provide free meals to those facing food insecurity.

See how IU is feeding Hoosiers

IU High School offers resources to help schools transition to online learning

Indiana University High School, which offers a broad range of courses for online instruction, is sharing its curriculum with schools across the state to help them transition to remote teaching and learning during the coronavirus pandemic.

Learn about the resources

IU donates N95 masks and other PPE to help front-line responders

Indiana University has answered the call for help during the coronavirus pandemic in myriad ways, including donating special respirator-style masks stockpiled during the H1N1 outbreak.

Hoosiers being Hoosiers

"I don’t know what it is about Hoosiers. But wherever you go there is always a Hoosier doing something very important there." – Kurt Vonnegut

'Romeo and Juliet': IU Southeast offers theatre for a star-crossed year

Nursing students serve as COVID-19 vaccination volunteers

'Creativity vs. COVID' uses artistic activism to communicate needs for vaccine

Breath test to detect COVID-19 in development by IUPUI researchers

IU medical students volunteer to administer COVID-19 vaccines

IU East students take lead in ongoing mitigation testing

Student-led project helps community make and distribute free masks

Backpack Blessings tackles food insecurity with weekend meals for Ellettsville students

Kelley School's HOPE Digital Project helps more than 360 Hoosier ventures through pandemic

How an IU student's meditation app boomed with downloads during the COVID-19 pandemic

Computer donation program supports remote learning for IU students in need

IU lab provides essential service to Hoosier dentists during pandemic

IU Northwest nursing alumni step up to the front lines

Virtual summer program provides IT training to Indianapolis youth

Student's work with Indy Urban League puts her on COVID-19 front lines

IU Southeast professor leads printmaking collaboration to support artists during pandemic

FSPH professor partners with Simon Property Group on curbside and reopening policies

IU employee starts food train to aid local residents

Connecting loved ones in a crisis through technology

IU Army ROTC seniors build ventilators at General Motors plant in Kokomo

Two female graduate students mobilize 3D printing for COVID-19

A helping home in the midst of COVID-19

IU South Bend student activist starts collective to assist her neighbors

IUPUI senior inspires her sorority to give back by supporting local food bank

IU linguistics students translate COVID-19 materials

New app to help 2 rural Indiana counties track COVID-19 symptoms

IU using 3D printers to make face shields and other medical equipment

IUPUI students create COVID-19 social media relief pages to help Indy residents

Student starts Quarantine Buddies program to connect those isolating at home

IU Surplus furnishes COVID-19 isolation shelter for homeless

Origami artist turns to folding face masks amid pandemic need

Indiana University provides free Wi-Fi access in response to COVID-19 crisis

Free virtual COVID-19 training for health care workers offered by IUPUI-led program

COVID-19 cases, area risk estimates and more compiled on data hub created by Polis Center

Kelley School initiative results in more than 21,000 surgical masks donated to hospitals

Librarians fighting COVID-19 pandemic with their best asset: Facts

Emergency Meals Project tackles food insecurity in IU community during pandemic

IU High School offers resources to help schools transition to online learning

IU donates N95 masks and other PPE to help front-line responders

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