IU Athletics inks $50M naming-rights deal with Carmel-based bank for Memorial Stadium
The sponsorship deal will put the bank’s name on Memorial Stadium’s playing field for the next two decades, IU and bank officials announced Thursday.
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IU lands $16.5M grant to advance Alzheimer’s research using 3D brain modeling
The grant will fund a new center at the medical school which will be one of only two in the U.S. dedicated to developing stem-cell-based models of the brain to better understand Alzheimer’s disease.
Mark Montieth: Sportswriter Bob Hammel wasn’t a paragon of objectivity, but he remained true to his kind nature
Bob Hammel might qualify as the biggest homer of all sportswriters in Indiana, if not beyond, during his 30 years as sports editor of the Bloomington Herald-Times (which was named the Daily Herald-Telephone the year his tenure started).
Federal judge dismisses professors’ lawsuit against IU, Purdue over new intellectual diversity law
The law states that faculty are required to teach scholarly works “from a variety of political or ideological frameworks” within their purview of instruction.
Komen Tissue Bank hosting breast tissue donation drive ahead of WNBA All-Star festivities
The event, a partnership between the tissue bank and the city’s WNBA All-Star 2025 Host Committee, seeks 500 women to donate breast tissue for cancer research.
IU still dealing with weekslong website outages
Reports indicate the outages have been affecting sites across the Indiana University system for more than a week.
IU School of Medicine opens new $230M education and research building
The school’s primary classroom and education facility is being moved from its longtime home on the Indianapolis campus to be closer to the new IU Health teaching hospital, set to open in 2027.
IBJ Podcast: Purdue’s plans for downtown Indy and city’s move to fix West Street
IBJ’s Mickey Shuey unpacks Purdue’s high-density strategy to serve 15,000 students per year by 2075. He also digs deep into perhaps the greatest hindrance to growth in the northwest sector of downtown.
City, universities say West Street stymies development and pedestrian safety
The nearly 2-mile stretch north to south from Interstate 65 to Interstate 70 is one of downtown’s busiest streets and reaches up to eight lanes in some places.
IU professor’s work leads to Alzheimer’s blood test
Indiana University School of Medicine researcher Jeff Dage’s years of research into biomarkers helped lead to a first-of-its-kind blood test to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease.
Q&A with IU Innovate’s Julie Heath: Using entrepreneurship as a way to drive Indiana’s economy
IBJ talked with Heath last week during the Global Entrepreneurship Congress at the Indiana Convention Center about what IU Innovates has accomplished in its first two years and what’s next for the effort.
Braun appointees join IU board; changes made to protest policy
The governor recently removed three alumni-elected board members in favor of his own appointees after lawmakers gave him the new powers earlier this year.
IU unveils architectural design plan for IU LAB at 16 Tech
The five-story, 150,000 square-foot building will be built next to the Herron School of Art and Design’s Eskenazi Fine Arts Center on Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis.
IU grad Mark Cuban offers advice on entrepreneurship, AI to Indy audience
Cuban visited Indianapolis on Wednesday to speak to a standing-room-only crowd at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress at the Indiana Convention Center.
Braun defends IU Board of Trustees moves, says university needs ‘sprucing up’
Previously Braun indicated that he intended to allow current board members to serve our their terms.
Jim Bopp, Sage Steele picked by Braun to join IU’s board of trustees
The appointments, effective immediately, come shortly after Braun removed two other members.
Fired IU Indy coach denies mistreating players, says he will appeal
IU Indianapolis Athletics said it received allegations from six individuals who played for the coach and that an investigation found his behavior did not meet the school’s standards.
ACLU sues governor’s office over change to IU board of trustees
The filing urges the Monroe County Circuit Court to rule on a budget provision giving the governor full control over Indiana University’s board of trustees.
Independent review finds IU men’s basketball doctor conducted rectal exams appropriately
The investigation was conducted by international law firm Jones Day, which IU hired to be an independent voice in reviewing player allegations that the exams were sexual in nature.
IU alumni blast board of trustees changes slipped into state budget
A coalition of ranking Indiana University alumni voiced “alarm and anger” Wednesday to new state policy that gives decision-making power over the board of trustee’s membership to the governor.