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The National Institutes of Health has awarded $217 million to fund research at Indiana University School of Medicine in the current fiscal year. This will fund more research on Alzheimer's and community outreach projects.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is currently overseeing Syria's dismantling of its chemical weapons stockpile, is cited for having "defined the use of chemical weapons as a taboo under international law."

Some of Indiana's wealthiest school districts are being awarded a chunk of a $40 million state fund reserved for teacher bonuses while most urban schools will receive significantly much less.

A coalition of local police agencies and the Department of Public Safety is using grant money to purchase new equipment to detect drunk and aggressive driving. The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute is giving the $22,000 to the Marion County Traffic Safety Partnership.

Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller won the 2013 economics prize for their work on developing new methods to study trends in asset markets. Fama, 74, and Hansen, 60, are associated with the University of Chicago. Shiller, 67, is a professor at Yale University.

Eight community health centers across the state will get more than $7 million in federal funding to reach more Hoosiers that are medically underserved.

Two churches in Indiana have been selected to be part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Preserving Black Churches grant program.

Tamara Winfrey-Harris, CICF leader and award-winning author, will serve as the new president of the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana.

Indiana high schools are encouraged to participate in the annual poetry recitation contest sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.

The pilot program plans will be used as models to share with other schools as part of a Next Level Programs of Study curriculum being launched in the fall of 2021.