On Friday, April 26, a fleet of yellow bicycles will depart from IUPUI at 9 a.m. and spread out across downtown Indianapolis. These teams of students have a collective goal of gathering as much trash as possible from Indy’s streets and parks, and recycling anything they can. In 2015, the O’Neill School’s student council… Read more »
Entries by Leslie Wells
O’Neill School launches Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Lab
We are proud to announce and introduce you to an exciting new research partnership between the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts: the Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation (AEI) Lab. Setting the Stage: The AEI Lab’s mission centers on better understanding the role of arts and culture… Read more »
IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs renamed for distinguished alumnus Paul H. O’Neill
Honoring former secretary of the U.S. Treasury and Indiana University alumnus Paul H. O’Neill, IU President Michael A. McRobbie has announced the renaming of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. The school—which in 2018 was named the No. 1 public affairs graduate program by U.S. News and World Report—will be renamed the… Read more »
Breaking biases: Students host community forum on mass incarceration
Phillip Roberts had been incarcerated twice, spending two years away from his family, friends, and society. While serving those sentences, he also put pen to paper as part of the Indiana Prison Writers Workshop. The program provides those serving time with a positive and creative outlet during one of the most challenging times of… Read more »
CHJR to begin new evaluation on co-response teams in Indianapolis
The Center for Health and Justice Research at the IU Public Policy Institute is working with the City of Indianapolis to take an in-depth look at the impact of the city’s Mobile Crisis Assistance Teams and Behavioral Health Unit through a new randomized control trial. The MCAT-BHU program pairs a police officer with a… Read more »