Governor Seeks To Expand Prestigious Teacher Education Program Offered at IUPUI, three other Universities

Aug. 18, 2008 — A prestigious initiative underway at IUPUI and three other universities in Indiana to address the state's need for well-prepared teachers in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) disciplines drew praise and a pledge from Governor Mitch Daniels.   Full Story

Murtadha Selected as Associate Vice Chancellor for Lifelong Learning and Executive Director of the Community Learning Network at IUPUI

May 16, 2008 — IUPUI Chancellor Charles R. Bantz today announced the selection of Khaula Murtadha as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Lifelong Learning and Executive Director of the Community Learning Network at IUPUI, pending approval by the IU Board of Trustees. Murtadha is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the Indiana University School of Education at IUPUI. Her research interests include effective educational leadership in urban schools and the impact of African American women in city school reform efforts.

Murtadha Awarded Madame C. J. Walker Outstanding Woman of the Year Award

March 14, 2008 — The Center for Leadership Development (CLD) presented Khaula Murtadha, a faculty member with the IU School of Education at IUPUI, with its 2008 Madame C. J. Walker (Outstanding Woman of the Year) Award.   Full Story

Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Selected

March 10, 2008 — IUPUI Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculties Uday Sukhatme is pleased to announce the selection of Prof. Pratibha Varma-Nelson as the Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Professor of Chemistry, pending approval by the IU Board of Trustees. Varma-Nelson is a Professor of Chemistry at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU), Chicago. For the past two years, she has been on academic leave from NEIU in order to serve as a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation.   Full Story

IUPUI Faculty Member Receives Fulbright Award

Dec. 21, 2007 — Nancy Van Note Chism, Professor of Education at the Indiana University School of Education, IUPUI, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and consult with universities in Thailand during Spring 2008, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.   Full Story

Leslie Lenkowsky

In January 2004, Leslie Lenkowsky rejoined the faculty of Indiana University after stepping down as chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service. He was appointed by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate in October 2001. The Corporation, created in 1993, engages more than a million Americans of all ages in improving local communities through three initiatives: AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve America, and the National Senior Service Corps.

Prior to joining the Indiana University faculty in 1997, Professor Lenkowsky had served for seven years as president of Hudson Institute, an internationally renowned public policy research institution headquartered in Indianapolis. During Professor Lenkowsky's tenure there, Hudson developed an innovative set of programs aimed at providing practical solutions to the nation's most pressing domestic problems, such as crime, welfare dependency, and inadequate educational skills.

Among his other positions, Professor Lenkowsky has served as president of the Institute for Educational Affairs, deputy director of the United States Information Agency, research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University, director of the Philanthropy Roundtable, and director of research at the Smith Richardson Foundation. Appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to be one of the founding directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Professor Lenkowsky had previously been named by President George H.W. Bush to the Commission on National and Community Service. He has also served on a number of for-profit and non-profit boards.

MAJOR FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Nonprofits and public policy

• Civil society in comparative perspective

• Institutional grant-makers

• Volunteering and civic engagement

• Education and social welfare policy

Kathleen Marrs

Kathleen A. Marrs - Associate Professor of Biology. Marrs is an expert in biology and science education. She is developing ways to reinforce the content to which students are exposed during lecture, to help students develop the intellectual skills needed to understand the scientific process and to establish connections concerning the relationship of biology to society. She is implementing a web-based, interactive method for teaching known as the "Just-in-Time" biology curriculum.

Jeffrey Watt

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