Bringle and Hatcher Poster Showcase

The Bringle and Hatcher Civic Engagement Showcase, which is named in honor of the two founders of the Center for Service and Learning, brings together IUPUI (now IU Indianapolis) faculty, students, and community partners each year to honor and to recognize IUPUI’s (now IU Indianapolis's) diverse community engagement activities.

Individual projects

Summer Alaniz

Igniting Conversation and Healing Through Community Contributions

The current pandemic has brought about isolation, fear, and emotional strain among the general public. Art can serve the community by being a purveyor of hope, a source of dignified sorrow, and a balancing agent. This poster...

Dana Dobbins

Clown's Playhouse: Postwar African-American Leisure Beyond Indiana Avenue

For much of the 20th-century, segregation shaped the social landscape of Black leisure, which, in Indianapolis, was largely centered along Indiana Avenue. In a less well-known African-American neighborhood in southwest...

Mason Garard

Pharaohs and Phantasms: Driving Community Involvement at the Intersection of Education, Public Archaeology and Tabletop Gaming

The Pharaohs and Phantasms Project is an effort to drive community involvement and interaction with the field of archaeology. By combining the latest in archaeological research with the enthusiasm of the tabletop gaming...

Shauna Keith

Voices for the Silenced: Memorializing the Marginalized at the Central State Hospital Cemetery

Between 1848 and 1909 Central State Hospital for the Insane treated a wide range of Hoosiers with mental illnesses. Many patients died in the hospital without surviving family to claim their remains. This poster evaluates how...

Samantha Riley

The Challenges of Resettlement: Stories of Early 20th Century Jewish Immigrants to Indiana

The U.S. has long been hailed as a melting pot, or a land where people of all cultures and backgrounds could come together to develop a diverse and harmonious nation. This ideology, however, disregards a history of the...

Manisha Wohlford

Beliefs, Perceptions and Attitudes of Dental Providers and Staff Towards LGBTQIA+ Patients

The primary aim of this study was to identify the perceptions of oral healthcare providers toward the LGBTQIA+ community and whether these perceptions impact the experiences of LGBTQIA+ patients seeking dental care.

Group projects

A New HIP Public: A Community-Engaged Project to Invest in Low-Income Hoosiers' Health and Wellness

Pamela Napier, David Craig, Luis Garcia, and Amrita Datta

Medicaid-eligible Hoosiers face health barriers due to the personal responsibility structure of the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP). In this community-engaged project, IUPUI faculty and students from the School of Liberal Arts,...

Chronicle of Health Impact Assessment Journal

Cynthia Stone and Carol Mills

The Chronicle of Health Impact Assessment (CHIA) Journal is an open access online journal. It is a joint effort between IU Fairbanks School of Public Health and the Society of Practitioners of Health Impact Assessment. The...

Civic Reflection Dialogue: How the Arts and Humanities Provoke Public Conversations

Pam Blevins Hinkle, Erin Kelley, and LaShawnda Crowe Storm

Spirit and Place--which uses the arts, humanities, and religion as civic tools--will provide an overview of the Civic Reflection Dialogue (CRD) facilitation strategy, how it was used to create critical community conversations...

Client Satisfaction of a Student Operated Fitness Outreach Program

Christopher Rash and Hannah Hanlon

The Physically Active Residential Communities and Schools (PARCS) Program is a fitness outreach program located in urban Indianapolis, primarily operated by students of the School of Health and Human Sciences at IUPUI. The...

Co-Constructing a Culturally Relevant College and Career Readiness Program for Latinx Families in Indiana to Catalyze Social Mobility and Equity

Devin Wolfe and Silvia Garcia

A community-engaged research team of IUPUI faculty, staff, student, and community partners came together to address the gap of access to culturally relevant and accessible college and career preparatory resources for Latinx...

Combating Food Insecurity on the IUPUI Campus

Miranda Frausto and Halee Griffey

The 2020 Indiana University Financial Wellness Survey found that 30% of IUPUI students reported experiencing hunger, but the financial inability to purchase groceries, within the past 30 days. This same study found that 42% of...

Community Collaboration and Cultural Repatriation

Margaret Alway and Gabriel Cruz

A major function of the FBI's Art Crime Team is to recover and repatriate stolen cultural heritage. Working with the FBI, a group of Community Engagement Associates helped conduct research that has resulted in the successful...

Effects of Learner Autonomy in Service-Learning-Enhanced EAP Courses

Estela Ene, Honnor Orlando, and Laura Colantonio

Both service learning (SL) and learner autonomy are believed to enhance learning experiences and outcomes. This presentation examines the perceived effects of SL on the social, linguistic, and intercultural development of EAP...

Empathy and Cultural Humility in Global Service Experiential Learning

Aiysha Amjad and Jeffery Steele

While the Global Service Learning (GSL) program at the IU School of Dentistry (IUSD) has celebrated numerous successes, GSL leaders face the challenge of systematically measuring abstract trip outcomes. This study focuses on...

Fostering Global Nursing Partnerships by Utilizing a Global Health Call/Assignment among Senior Nursing Students

Barb deRose, Lucinda Hill, and Linda Sinclair

Nursing students’ perceptions of global healthcare can increase through traveling abroad and experiencing first hand different world cultures. The majority of students, though, cannot always afford global travel to gain this...

Girls STEM Institute: Engaging Families in STEM Learning

Sheramie Velazquez and Crystal Morton

Girls STEM Institute: Fostering and Maximizing Interdisciplinary Learning Year-round (F.a.M.I.L.Y) project examines an innovative approach to positively influence Black girls, guys, and their parents/caregivers' STEM learning...

Promoting Relationship Centered Community Engagement: Building Virtual Bridges Between Dental Students, LTC Seniors and Staff

Heidi Hill, Drashty Mody, Maria Matney-Foran, Samantha Burgett, Stuart Schrader, and Odette Aguirre

Oral healthcare within the elderly population may be declining, as seniors in long-term care facilities (LTCs) have less access to oral health resources. The COVID-19 pandemic increased barriers for accessing care. Indiana...

Using Technology to Facilitate Service Learning During a Pandemic

Elizabeth Holtel and Tanya Coltrain

Service learning is an integral component of the sophomore nursing curriculum at IUPUI. The COVID-19 pandemic gave faculty teaching NURS-B 235:Healthy Populations Practicum an opportunity to collaborate creatively with our...

Bringle and Hatcher Poster Showcase