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 »
Read the 2021 PIT Count policy brief at this link For more than a decade, the IU Public Policy Institute and the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention have worked with local organizations to conduct Marion County’s annual Point-In-Time (PIT) Count. The PIT Count provides a critical glimpse into Indianapolis’ homeless community and serves as… Read more »
Each year, Sustain IU pairs students with organizations through the Indiana Sustainability Development Program’s summer fellowship opportunity. The Climate Fellows program allows students to work in a full-time professional setting, addressing sustainability issues, while also helping to combat the loss of workforce talent in sustainability. The fellowship places an emphasis on climate change mitigation and… Read more »
The Sugar Creek Township community in rural Boone County was once a thriving and free community for Black Southerners who had moved north in the early 1850s. Today, all that remains of that community is a small cemetery on the outskirts of Thorntown, Indiana. While he was still in high school, O’Neill Public Safety Management… Read more »
Addison Lavelle was already enrolled in college classes in his hometown of Anderson, Indiana. He had earned a scholarship at Anderson University and was following in the footsteps of many of his family and friends who also attended the school. But he wanted to be closer to where decisions were being made and to the… Read more »
