The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the awarding of eight grants totaling $145,000 to arts organizations and cultural programming providers in Indiana for the fall of fiscal year 2016.

The Indiana University Board of Trustees have approved the design schematic of the 45,000-square-foot, $21.6 million expansion to the Indiana University School of Dentistry.

The trustees say the one-year extension will allow the university to complete activities associated with its bicentennial in the 2019-20 academic year before beginning a search for its next president.

The proposed 30,000-square-foot building would be located across the street from the university's basketball arena and football stadium.

Indiana University police say they're investigating threatening and racist comments that were made on social media Friday.

Indiana has trailed the nation in gross domestic product growth during three of the past four years. But the Kelley School of Business panel's annual economic forecast projects that the state's GDP will grow at a slightly faster rate into 2017.

Seventeen percent of female undergraduate students responding to an Indiana University survey say they've experienced sexual assault or attempted sexual assault while enrolled.

The national fraternity's action came just hours after the university announced it had suspended the campus chapter while it investigated a video surfaced on social media.That video purported to show a fraternity member performing a sex act on a woman during a fraternity event.

The National Office of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity has revoked the charter and closed its chapter at Indiana University after a sexually explicit video involving a member was released on social media.

The campus is a partnership among the IU School of Medicine, the University of Southern Indiana and the University of Evansville.