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A degree from the School of Informatics and Computing can launch your career in many different sectors of the health care industry, including 3D medical prosthetics and app development.

Discover how students and alumni from our different degree programs have applied their skills to improve lives and advance knowledge in the field of health care.

HIM student Sheila Hendricks poses next to a heavy bag and boxing ring at Rock Steady boxing gym

Senior Sheila Hendricks takes the human side of HIM into the boxing ring

(photo courtesy of Sheila Hendricks) When Health Information Management (HIM) student Sheila Hendricks entered the School of Informatics and Computing degree program in 2015, she was looking for a career segue that would allow her to eventually work from home.  She was employed full-time in the orthodontics field after prior employment in radiology and insurance […]

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BioHealth Informatics participants explore evolving health information challenges

BioHealth Informatics graduate students Gopala Krishna Ganta and Vini Khanuja and professor of practice Gary Schwebach spoke about the dark side of biometric data; transforming the evolving field of precision medicine; and telemedicine during the virtual spring regional conference April 14-15, 2021, for the Kentucky and Indiana chapters of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

Abhinav Sikharam

Abhinav Sikharam continues to demonstrate talent for pitching innovative ideas

Abhinav Sikharam, a master’s student in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) program at the School of Informatics and Computing, has a talent for cultivating new ideas and sharing them with others. In April of last year, he won the 2020 Jagstart Pitch Competition at IUPUI and then in fall 2020 he was runner up in the […]

Informatics student and LiFT Scholar Isabel Lopez

Isabel Lopez, IUPUI LiFT Scholar, takes part in highly selective i3 program

Isabel Lopez, an Informatics student and LiFT Scholar at SoIC, was chosen from a nationwide pool of applicants for the iSchool Inclusion Institute. She has attended special classes and worked on a team research project about the impact of abandonment in social media, which was presented online to the iConference 2020 in Sweden.

Student Jacob DeHart stands in front of stadium, holding a football helmet

Mother Nature inspired IUPUI students’ design for a safer football helmet

Working with engineering student Joel Najmon, SoIC MAS student Jacob DeHart examined how energy-absorbing, biologically-inspired cellular liners could make football helmets safer. Their research paper was published in the Society of Automotive Engineering International Journal of Transportation Safety.

HI grad student Ashley Leising

Health Informatics student’s simulation piloted by Franciscan Health

By incorporating Electronic Medical Record (EMR) training into simulation training for nurses as she worked on her M.S. in Health Informatics, Ashley Leising improved patient care. Her efforts helped nurses to gain proficiency in working with electronic records, reducing the time nurses spent working with EMR and making them more efficient.

Media Arts and Science alumna Jordan Nelsen with her laptop

What’s in your bag? IUPUI senior creates digital paintings and prosthetic designs

A student at the Herron School of Art and Design, Jordan Nelsen also studies 3D Graphics and Animation at SoIC. She’s drawn upon the anatomical foundation of her artistic talent to help create life-enhancing 3D facial prosthetic designs for dental patients.

IU School of Informatics and Computing student Jacqueline Hill and Vicki Bonds hold Hill's award at the 2016 MLK Dinner.

Award-winning student creating game for kids with diabetes

A research mentorship opportunity paired MAS student Jacqueline Hill with SoIC professor Joseph Defazio. She became an integral part of his research team, examining how to improve “serious” games in health education. The team’s diabetes game, which has a Viking theme, helps adolescents to manage their disease more efficiently.