Written by Jennifer Boehm The IU Student Outreach Clinic (IUSOC) was created half a decade ago to bring medical services to Indianapolis’s poor and underserved. But it’s hard to say who’s gotten the most out of the arrangement – the near-eastside neighborhood that receives everything from free medical checkups to physical therapy to dental work, or… Read more »
Building Strong Communities
SOURCE River West Entrepreneurship Center facility opening this spring
Written by Teresa Francis SOURCE River West Entrepreneurship Center is a catalyst project of the River West Great Place initiative. Its goal is to create an environment where entrepreneurs are welcome and contribute to an equitable and thriving neighborhood business sector by fostering place-based entrepreneurship through coaching, education, training, and resources to support aspiring and existing… Read more »
IUPUI partners to host Community Health and Resource Fair in the Martindale Brightwood area
Written by Teresa Francis IUPUI students, a faculty member, and a community advocate collaborated to create the Martindale-Brightwood Community Health and Resource Fair to improve access to and raise awareness of resources in the neighborhood. The fair will be held Saturday, March 25, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm at 37 Place, 2605 East 25th Street in… Read more »
River West Art Park a reflection of hope envisioned by a Great Places community
Written by Vernon Williams “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” ― Aristotle Transformation of both the look and feel of one downtown Indianapolis neighborhood hinges partly on a collaboration of civic organizers, residents, educators, corporate and government leaders, and visionaries of all ages and walks of life…. Read more »
Community collaboration focuses on user-centered information technology for brain health
Written by Vernon Williams An Indianapolis team of researchers, corporate citizens, community organizers, care givers and patients – led by IUPUI assistant professor Richard Holden – is collaborating to co-design software and apps to promote and protect brain health with help from a new grant. Holden, who teaches in the Department of BioHealth Informatics at the School of Informatics and Computing… Read more »
Research to embody rich legacy, current impact of Indianapolis neighborhoods
Written by Vernon Williams “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward.” Soren Kierkegard Aging apartment buildings and small, single-family homes throughout the heart of Indianapolis appear inconsequential to many on the outside looking in – strangers who seldom calculate the intrusion of interstate highways, urban renewal and gentrification that displaced not only… Read more »