Hello from India! I'm part of a delegation currently visiting partners, alumni, and prospective students.

It was great getting to see many of you in-person in Indianapolis a couple weeks ago for the State of the School! And I appreciate everyone who was able to join remotely. I love these all-school gatherings where we can highlight our direction.

You can watch the watch the presentation.

• Mangilal Agarwal recently received a $1.2 million grant from the American Cancer Association to develop better prostate cancer screening methods.
• Jingwen Yan received a 5-year R01 $2 million grant for her work studying Alzheimer’s disease.
• The Media Arts and Science Research Learning Arcade (MARLA), which is a collection of classic video games preserved for future generations, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate its status as an official IU Museum Collection.
• Lantao Liu and a team of students had an impressive showing at their first Indy Autonomous Challenge. Their car reached an average lap speed of 124MPH, which was an incredible success for a first-year team!
• The online data science program at Luddy Bloomington received a top ranking from Fortune Magazine. The program is ranked 13th overall and fifth in most affordable program.
• Feng Guo is part of a $2 million grant from NSF to help further his research on human brain organoids.
• Chenghong Wang received an NSF grant for $600k to help boost collaboration among researchers.
• Austin Toombs received a $557k grant from NSF to research design strategies to that help facilitate implicit care in online communities.

Joanna Millunchick
Dean
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering