On September 2, 2021, O’Neill Associate Professor Jamie Levine Daniel was sitting in her office meeting with a student. She doesn’t usually have her phone out, but that day she had left it on her desk. She saw an alert pop up—an unexpected text message from a friend. “He said, ‘Congrats on best article,’” she… Read more »
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Study sustainability and cross-cultural understanding
While COVID-19 put study abroad programs on hold in 2020, three O’Neill students were forming a transatlantic connection with students in Rwanda. “I’m a pretty big traveler—especially internationally—but as a sustainability student, it can be a bit conflicting,” admits Aspen Grieshaber, a Sustainable Management and Policy major. “A lot of that travel just isn’t sustainable.”… Read more »
Indiana Climate Fellowship provides sustainability partnership
Written by: James Boyd, O’Neill Bloomington, Director of Marketing and Communications Growing up in Greenwood, Indiana, Ciana Sorrentino didn’t know what she wanted to do when she grew up, but she knew she wanted to help her community, not sit in a cubicle for eight hours a day. The third-generation Hoosier spent this past summer… Read more »
Diplomacy Lab helps O’Neill graduate students make a difference in Kosovo
As O’Neill students return for the fall 2021 semester, those in O’Neill Senior Lecturer Bill Foley’s J-531 National and Homeland Security in America course will get the chance to contribute to the U.S. Department of State’s policymaking process. For the seventh time in as many years, Foley will lead his students through a Diplomacy Lab… Read more »
Life of service earns André Zhang Sonera Plater Medallion
O’Neill IUPUI’s André Zhang Sonera doesn’t just talk about the importance of community engagement; he has been living out his mission to make a difference in Indianapolis and his hometown of San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, for years. After Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017, André stepped up to help from 1,870 miles away in… Read more »
