An Alternative Spring Break project in March 2008 provided assistance to the New Orleans Broadmoor Community, which suffered extensive damage from Hurricane Katrina. The 25 IUPUI student participants developed design proposals for residential and commercial reconstruction, presented proposals to community members, and assisted with landscaping and street clean-up. The project was sponsored by Global Design Studio, an international education collaborative—co-founded by School of Engineering faculty member Jan Cowan—that addresses design problems in disaster-stricken areas around the world. International partners in the New Orleans project include the College of the North Atlantic in Newfoundland, Canada, and Gadjah Mada University in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
The Office of Medical Service Learning in the School of Medicine sponsored 16 projects that enabled students to volunteer 7,576 hours of time to communities from Indiana (Camp Boggy Creek, Spring House Calls, and Doctor Camp) to the Caribbean (Calnali Health Education Outreach). Medical students also presented their 19th annual Evening of the Arts event, which raises funds for medical supplies for central Indiana clinics that provide careto the homeless and other underserved populations.
The School of Law launched a new project that offers the International and Comparative Law track of its LL.M. program at the Universities of Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt. Funded by a three-year, $6.7 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the program is part of a USAID initiative to help Egypt modernize its economy and legal system. It marks the first time an American law school has offered a graduate law degree in the Middle East.
