Wabash Valley residents will soon have a convenient, environmentally safe option for disposing of computers, monitors, televisions and other electronic items thanks to a series of state grants.

Indiana State University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, the first and only such institute in Indiana, has been awarded a third $100,000 grant to provide learning opportunities for older adults in the Wabash Valley.

National program promotes diversity in higher education administration

Carmen Tillery, dean of students at Indiana State University, has been accepted into the Millennium Leadership Institute. An initiative of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), the institute will conduct its 10th anniversary program beginning Saturday (June 6) in Washington, D.C.

Indiana State University's "campus living room" now has a dedicated space for commuter students to use for relaxing and studying.

Indiana State University has selected Dell as its recommended provider of laptop computers, effective with the 2009-10 school year. New students who receive the ISU Laptop Award will get the Dell Latitude E6400. The laptops come with a three-year warranty and three years of accidental damage protection.

Though Cory Graham walked across the stage as part of Indiana State University's May commencement, he doesn't technically finish until December. What lies between the two graduations is only partially responsible for Graham's thoughts as this year has been a grand adventure for the elementary and special education major from Indianapolis.

Dictionary Society of North America members will visit Indiana State's Cunningham Memorial Library and the Warren N. and Suzanne B. Cordell Collection of Dictionaries the evening of May 29 for a tour and dinner.

Next spring, Nan McEntire will be packing up her boots and umbrella and moving, temporarily, to the Emerald Isle. McEntire has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to research traditional Irish music at the University of Limerick during the spring semester of 2010.

Eva Kor, a survivor of a Nazi concentration and extermination camp, and Kevin Bolinger, professor of early childhood education, will team up to offer a Holocausut curriculum class at Indiana State University this summer to help teachers meet Indiana's new Holocaust education standards.

Indiana State University, the Terre Haute fire and police departments
and Vigo County Emergency Management Agency will conduct a
disaster exercise on Wednesday, May 20.