Natural Sciences News and Features
Biology program receives IU Women’s Philanthropy Leadership Council grant for undergraduate research initiative
September 24, 2021
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–The IU Southeast biology program has received a grant from the IU Women’s Philanthropy Leadership Council to support its initiative, “Science is for Everyone: Broadening Access to Undergraduate Research.” This innovative project enables introductory biology undergraduates to participate in a year-long, in-class, authentic research project to identify and characterize novel ...
Lisa Wise ’20 is first IU Southeast student to be RHIA-certified
September 14, 2021
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Lisa Wise ’20 has become the first IU Southeast student to earn certification as a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). “It is an absolutely wonderful feeling,” said Wise, currently a health information management supervisor at a local behavioral health facility. The certification ...
Health Information Management program earns CAHIIM accreditation
September 6, 2021
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–IU Southeast’s health information management (HIM) program has earned initial accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM). With nearly a century of developing record-keeping best practices in its DNA, CAHIIM accredits degree programs in health informatics and health information management. “CAHIIM accreditation is ...
Cicadas: Dr. Randy Hunt explores the science behind the Brood X buzz
June 3, 2021
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Buzzy, squirty and occasionally crunchy underfoot–the periodical cicadas of Brood X have begun to emerge in what will be Biblical bazillions for their once-every-seventeen-years frolic of mating, egg-laying and hatching. Like the bugs themselves, human reactions to them are all over the map, ranging from “Cool!” to “Gross!” to “SHUT ...
Faculty innovator: Sandra Johnson
January 22, 2021
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Sandra Johnson remembers playing teacher as a child, in a classroom of make-believe students. “Gaining knowledge, and sharing it, were my ultimate goals,” she said. Today, as senior lecturer in the areas of allied health and health information management, she prepares real live students to enter a career that didn’t ...
IU Southeast School of Natural Sciences receives $1 million gift to create new scholarship
January 13, 2021
NEW ALBANY, Ind. – IU Southeast received a generous gift to the School of Natural Sciences by Mark Holloway in honor of his late wife and IU Southeast alumna Teresa Blessinger. The $1 million gift will create the Teresa Blessinger Memorial Scholarship for IU Southeast School of Natural Sciences students. “We are very grateful for ...
IU Southeast biology students to participate in SEA PHAGES program
December 7, 2020
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–IU Southeast biology students will now benefit from membership in a national research community. That community is called SEA-PHAGES, which is short for Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science. It is jointly administered by a research team at the University of Pittsburgh and the Howard Hughes Medical ...
Math department recalculates for fall success
September 22, 2020
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–How has the mathematics department adapted to the pandemic? Let us count the ways. The math lab, run by Senior Lecturer Cindy Light, has gone virtual, with free online tutoring via Zoom–extra equipment was purchased to enable student tutors to help their peers without leaving their safe spaces. Instructors Mildred ...
