At 6:15 a.m., the streets of Washington, D.C., are beginning to come to life. O’Neill alumna Marie Johns is lacing up her walking shoes to head out with her 10-year-old wheaten terrier, Riggins. It’s a daily 2-mile tradition for the duo. These early morning hours are where Johns (BS’79, MPA’82) finds the calm before the… Read more »
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O’Neill student receives public safety scholarship
Candace Smallwood is the first in her family to attend college. Her mother is a preschool teacher—her father, an aviation mechanic. “Even though they hadn’t attended college, my parents were incredibly encouraging and gave me the critical emotional support I needed to know that I belonged here,” she says. “IUPUI and O’Neill picked up the baton… Read more »
Jamie Levine Daniel honored for work on antisemitism
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 »
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 »
