The Horizon

IUS alumna makes dough baking bread

IUS Horizon April 11, 2010
Customers buzz in and out the door to pick up the orders they have placed for their Easter celebrations. In the kitchen, bread is tossed back and forth, being formed into what will become an Easter bunny-shaped loaf of bread.

Denbo, Williamson win SGA election with last-minute bid

IUS Horizon April 11, 2010
On Thursday, April 22, Amanda Denbo, human resources management and general management senior, and Tristan Williamson, religious studies and English junior, will be inaugurated as SGA president and vice president, respectively. Both Denbo and Williamson said they plan to get their fellow students much more involved but don’t plan on implementing anything big until they hear from them. “We want to get a lot more information from students before we do anything,” Denbo said.

Philosophy professor to teach in Romania

IUS Horizon April 4, 2010
It’s approximately 5,322.814 miles from IU Southeast to the University of Bucharest. Bryan Hall, assistant professor of philosophy, received one of the seven Fulbright Scholarships awarded in the US for Romania and will spend the 2010-11 school year teaching and researching at the University of Bucharest. The Fulbright Scholarship was established in 1946 by J. William Fulbright, Senator from Arkansas, as a means of increasing understanding between cultures worldwide. A total of approximately 7,500 grants are awarded to individuals from more than 155 countries annually.

Officer enjoys Southern Indiana life, IUS campus

IUS Horizon April 4, 2010
Steve Miller, IUS Police officer, was born in Milwaukee. When he was 5 year old, his parent’s job transferred to New York, and he continued to live there, in Long Island, for 33 more years. Miller was getting his undergraduate degree in criminal justice and originally thought he was going to be a lawyer

Thompson-Book’s name fits job, passion

IUS Horizon March 14, 2010
Barbara Thompson-Book, associate professor of elementary education, smiled and said she couldn’t have had a better last name. Thompson-Book has been teaching children’s literature and reading courses at IU Southeast for the past 13 years.

Student wins unexpected scholarship

IUS Horizon March 14, 2010
Every year, Hoosiers for Higher Education pick one student to win a scholarship. This year’s winner didn’t apply and didn’t even know the scholarship existed until after she had already won it. Alison Grover, elementary education senior, received an e-mail one week before the Welsh Bowen Scholarship was awarded in Indianapolis.

CSF highlights importance

IUS Horizon March 14, 2010
A group of students gathered around a table set up outside of the IUS Bookstore to the sounds of Christian and country music playing from a laptop located at a table. The students were gathering to have the photo of their palm taken by the Christian Student Fellowship group of IU Southeast.

Student’s passion for music turns to death metal

IUS Horizon March 7, 2010
Anagnorisis is a Greek word for self-realization. It is also the name of a local death metal band, in which Zak Denham, music technology junior, plays the lead guitar.

Education major raises awareness for childhood cancer, shaves head

IUS Horizon March 7, 2010
Britney Spears has nothing on Ariel LaGrange, elementary education senior.

IUS Alumnus turns pillowcase hobby into business

IUS Horizon February 28, 2010
When Lauren Moore was 9 years old, she came home from school after a bad day, she asked her mom to take her to the fabric store.

New director seeks to encourage more alumni activities, festivities

IUS Horizon February 28, 2010
Jerry Wayne, vice chancellor for Alumni and Community Relations, became the new director for the IUS Alumni Association in fall 2009.

IUS academics counselor transfers to financial aid

IUS Horizon February 28, 2010
Rachel Kynhoff, financial aid counselor, recently transferred from her position in Academic Affairs, where she had been employed since May of 2008.
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