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Prof’s book rethinks historic 1860 election

May 17, 2013

The 1860 presidential election – which sent Abe Lincoln to the White House and stoked the fires of Secession and Civil War – is widely considered the most important in our nation’s history. However, the conventional focus on the campaign between Republican Lincoln and Democrat Stephen Douglas ignores complexities in the story that reveal much [...]

Student agency wins state PR awards

May 17, 2013

UIndy’s student-run public relations agency, Top Dog Communication, claimed the two top student honors Wednesday at the annual Pinnacle Awards, presented by the Hoosier Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. In the programs category, which covers all the strategy and elements of an entire PR campaign, the honors went to a team led by senior Hannah [...]

Forensic team to aid in Texas migrant crisis

May 15, 2013

A UIndy forensic anthropologist and her students will spend next week in Texas exhuming graves like this one as part of an ongoing effort to identify and repatriate the remains of people who die after crossing the border. Watch WTHR report So many undocumented migrants are turning up dead in rural Brooks County, Texas, that [...]