The Women of IU South Bend has extended the deadline for grants submission until February 15th, 2021. Please email completed grant forms to Sherri Mott, slmott@iusb.edu.

If you completed a significant research project during 2020, you may be eligible to apply for the Library Prize for Undergraduate Research.

The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research, sponsored by the IU South Bend Libraries, rewards and celebrates excellence in undergraduate research projects. The annual Library Prize is designed to honor students who demonstrate sophisticated research skill by incorporating information found through the library’s resources into original scholarship. While consideration is given to the product of the research, the prize focuses on the research process and application of information literacy: the demonstration of library research skills, adept use of library resources, and the reflection upon the strategies utilized to investigate a research problem.

A monetary prize of $500 will be awarded.

Deadline is February 12, 2021.

Library Prize website at: https://library.iusb.edu/about-us/awards/libraryprize/index.html

Questions? Contact Nancy Colborn at ncolborn@iusb.edu.

Awards are $3400 (10 weeks full-time) or $1700 (5 weeks full-time); funding is available for at least 10 students.  Proposals for Student-Mentor Academic Research Teams (SMART) Summer Fellowships are due by 5 pm on Monday, March 22.  Student-mentor teams may also apply for up to $2000 in additional supporting funds.  Fellowship winners qualify for travel funding to a regional or national conference or equivalent event to present project results.  For details, visit https://academics.iusb.edu/smart/summer-fellowship.html.  Questions?  Contact SMART Committee Chair Andrew Schnabel (aschnabe@iusb.edu) or IUSB Contracts and Grants Coordinator Erika Zynda (ezynda@iusb.edu).

Are you looking for an opportunity to help serve our IUSB community as well as be an advocate for public health? 

We’ve got the PERFECT opportunity for you!  The IUSB Housing Spring Arrival Testing team is looking for volunteers to help with spring semester move-in February 4-6.  Prior to moving in, students will be screened for COVID in the Education & Arts Building from 9AM – 6PM.  Various shifts are available throughout the day and roles include greeter, check-in, runners, and more!  This is a great opportunity for those in need of service hours or those wishing to bolster their resume.

If you’d like to be a part of an invaluable service, please contact Tiffany German-Hall at tgermanh@iu.edu or 574-520-4575.

Faculty: teaching a service-learning or community engagement course this semester and in need of meaningful experiences for your students? 

Please contact Tiffany at tgermanh@iu.edu or Kari Frame at ksandert@iusb.edu for information regarding opportunities to assist with COVID and other health-related IUSB opportunities!

The Women of IU South Bend has extended the deadline for grants submission until February 15th, 2021. Please email completed grant forms to Sherri Mott, slmott@iusb.edu.

The WPLC (Women’s Philanthropy Leadership Council) is offering grants up to $25,000. The link to their webpage is https://iufoundation.iu.edu/leadership-giving/womens-philanthropy/grants.html where the grant application and additional tools are available to those interested in applying for a WPLC grant . Some of our faculty and staff have received grants in the past from the WPLC. There are a lot of helpful hints at their website.

For questions, please contact Dina Harris, director of development at diharris@iusb.edu.

Now that we are back on campus for the spring semester, we can collect caps again!

In America, 2.5 million plastic bottles are used each hour. That is 2.5 million plastic caps used and thrown out by the hour. Plastic bottles CANNOT be recycled if the lid is kept on.

Take your Tops Off and keep an eye out around campus for Tops Off buckets to put them in.
Some of the lids we accept are pop bottle lids, water bottle lids, prescription lids, sports drink lids, flip caps, hair spray and paint caps, toothpaste caps, and cottage cheese container lids.

Tag us in your social media Tops Off posts on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter using #topsoffiusb and #sustainiusb

Thank you for helping keep plastic out of our landfills and environment, as well as making our campus a cleaner and greener place. The lids collected will be donated to the Elkhart County 4H Fairs Make a Bench Program.

For more information, contact Holly Shaffer at hlshaffe@iu.edu.

Did you know January is Human Trafficking Awareness month? For more information on myths, facts and statistics, or how human trafficking occurs, you can visit resources like Polaris Project.

IU South Bend’s Office of Institutional Equity and Inclusive Excellence is hosting a virtual lunch program on January 26, 2021 from 12-1pm with local alumna Annie McGuire, Residential Operations Director for Bashor Children’s Home in South Bend. Register in advance here. We will discuss local/regional trends, signs of human trafficking, and how to report it.