Ivy Tech to have ‘spooky’ item drive
Ivy Tech Community College will collect items for its student food/hygiene pantry during a Halloween-themed event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday at Moravec Hall, 4475 Central Ave.
At the “spooky food/item drive,” the college will collect food and hygiene items that will be made available to students to help support them through their educational journey and assist them with academic success.
The college will collect the following food items: granola bars, cereal, popcorn, snack items, pasta noodles, pasta sauce, soups, canned meat, and microwavable oatmeal cups, pancake cups, macaroni cups, and ramen cups.
Hygiene items needed include deodorant, toothpaste, men’s and women’s shaving gel and razors, shampoo/conditioner, bars of soap, feminine hygiene products toilet paper, and tissues. All hygiene items are requested to be travel size.
All items will support students throughout the Ivy Tech Columbus service area, which includes Bartholomew, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Johnson, and Shelby counties.
Items can be dropped off at Moravec Hall. A drive-up station will be available to expedite the drop-off process.
For more information, contact Aundrey Ligon, Director of Student Life, at [email protected].
Clinic to expand training
BLOOMINGTON — The Indiana University Cybersecurity Clinic, which offers free cybersecurity assistance to local governments, nonprofits, schools, small businesses and other organizations across Indiana and beyond, will expand training opportunities to undergraduate students who want to gain skills in the rapidly growing field of cybersecurity under a $500,000 award from Google’s Cybersecurity Clinics Fund.
The funding from Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm, is part of a $20 million collaboration with the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, of which IU is a founding member. All award recipients were announced Oct. 18.
“This support will allow us to scale up our clinic over the next few years,” said Scott Shackelford, IU Provost Professor of Business Law and Ethics at the Kelley School of Business and founder of the IU Cybersecurity Clinic. “We’re excited to be able to offer a new undergraduate section and open other opportunities to graduate students as well. The relationship with Google will also provide us valuable access to their expertise as well as some security hardware.”
The expertise includes scholarships for IU students for Google’s Career Certificate in Cybersecurity as well as mentorship opportunities with Google employees, or “Googlers,” Shackelford said. The security hardware includes Titan Security Keys, a small hardware device that adds an extra layer of physical security to online accounts.
“These clinics have been designed to provide the next generation of professionals with the tools and resources they need to succeed in the ever growing field of cybersecurity,” said Royal Hansen, Google’s Vice President of Privacy, Safety, and Security Engineering. “We’re proud to lend a hand to help grow a strong security workforce responsible for strengthening and protecting our infrastructure for years to come.”
Established in 2019, the IU Cybersecurity Clinic is a first-of-its-kind program that leverages student and faculty expertise in cybersecurity to help organizations who could not otherwise afford cybersecurity services, providing the tools they need to manage cyberattacks, protect intellectual property and improve privacy.The clinic engages students from multiple degree programs and disciplines across the university, including students studying law, cybersecurity and global policy, cybersecurity risk management and public policy at the Maurer School of Law; the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering; the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs; and the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, among others. The clinic engages about 40 graduate students and plans to recruit about 40 undergraduates over the next year.
IU, Purdue to evaluate ‘READI’
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue Center for Regional Development, as part of the Office of Engagement, and the Indiana University Public Policy Institute will collaborate on a multiyear project to examine the economic and community impact of Indiana’s nationally recognized, $500 million Regional Economic Acceleration and Development Initiative.
Launched by Gov. Eric Holcomb, the READI program has awarded more than $487 million of the initiative’s original $500 million to accelerate strategic investments in 17 regions that represent all 92 Indiana counties. These funds will match additional public, private and nonprofit dollars, totaling an expected $12.2 billion invested in Indiana communities, talent and innovation.
The project will assess the first iteration of the READI program, from its inception in 2021 through Dec. 31, 2026, to produce key performance indicators and other program insights, including population growth, per capita income and economic impact analyses, for the Indiana Economic Development Corp. (IEDC), which administers READI. The IEDC will allocate $1.69 million over nearly four years to this project to monitor the state’s growth in key areas that contribute to the quality of life of Hoosiers.
“When we announced the READI grant program, we knew it had the potential to have a generational impact across every region and further accelerate population and economic growth throughout Indiana,” said David Rosenberg, Indiana secretary of commerce and CEO of the IEDC. “This partnership with Purdue and IU will put additional data behind these investments in quality of place, quality of life and quality of opportunity, highlighting the significance of each project and program and the state’s unprecedented investment as a whole. Together, we can illustrate Indiana’s commitment to and progress toward creating nationally recognized, vibrant destinations that retain and attract top talent.”
