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Cleansing a community
Members of IU’s Black Graduate Student Association are taking action after reading about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. With the help of the IU community, the organization is raising money online to purchase over 38,000 bottles of water. The campaign, “Fresh for Flint,” will send the water to Boys and Girls Clubs in the area, where it will be distributed to local children and their families.
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Celebrating history through poetry
The first time Shai Warfield shared an original poem at IU’s African American Read-In, she was a junior in high school. Four years later, she returned to the stage as an IU Bloomington student to share her experiences as a young black woman. The annual Read-In kicked off a number of events taking place on campus as part of Black History Month.
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High-impact research
As Hollywood weighs in on football’s biggest quandary with the recent release of “Concussion,” two Indiana University scientists continue their work toward a portable sideline device that will be able to quickly detect signs of mild brain trauma. Since 2010, optometry students Nicholas Port and Steven A. Hitzeman have gathered baseline data on the eye movements and balance of local athletes.
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