KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Dec. 18 -- The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics issued the following news release: Taylor Covington of Indiana Tech has been named the NAIA Women's Basketball Offensive Player of the Week, and Peyton Murphy of Grace (Ind.) has been named the NAIA Women's Basketball Defensive Player of the Week. The duo was selected based on their performances from December 9-15 and were chosen out of a pool of conference/Continental Athletic Conference (Independents)/unaf more PR

SOUTH BEND, Indiana, Dec. 18 -- Indiana University South Bend campus issued the following news release: The IU South Bend Student Counseling Center has been awarded a three-year transformative grant through the locally-based Valinhos Foundation. The grant will allow the campus to begin implementing an expanded mental health framework to improve support for the campus community of more than 4,600 students. "We are so excited about the amazing opportunities and resources that will be provided fo more PR

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, Dec. 18 -- The Kellogg Institute for International Studies, a part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at Notre Dame, issued the following news: Political anthropologist Nusrat Chowdhury possesses a cultural memory of Bangladesh that the nation's young students don't. It grounds her perspective and informs her framework to assess political, economic, and social change - some of these changes rapid and recent, as was the case of July 2024 student protests that led to the  more PR

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Dec. 17 -- The Lilly Endowment issued the following news release: Through the eighth phase of its Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow (GIFT) initiative, Lilly Endowment is awarding 30 grants totaling more than $171 million to support the efforts of community foundations and their partners throughout Indiana to strengthen quality of life for the people in the towns, cities, counties and regions they serve. The grants, which range from $467,327 to $20 million, will fund a va more PR

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Dec. 17 -- Marian University issued the following news: In a unique collaboration, Marian University students recently showcased and presented their research on firefly DNA. Four groups of undergraduate students explained their large format posters, which demonstrated the culmination of their work on Indiana's firefly population. "We received the firefly specimens and extracted DNA from them, then we used the information to make lots of copies of it to understand how lon more PR

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Dec. 17 -- Marian University issued the following news: Congratulations to Marian University's Model United Nations team for an outstanding November 2024! Under the leadership of Marian's associated professor of global studies, Melissa Buehler, Ph.D., the team successfully hosted its Second Model United Nations Conference in November welcoming 173 students from high schools across the State of Indiana. This event showcased the participants' talents and dedication and hig more PR

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, Dec. 17 -- The University of Notre Dame issued the following news: The Main Building and Basilica of the Sacred Heart at sunrise (Photo by Matt Cashore / University of Notre Dame) The University of Notre Dame has received a $10 million grant from Lilly Endowment to fund the new Pathways to Communion Program at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. This program aims to strengthen the ecosystem of theologically informed service opportunities for young Catholics in the Unite more PR