Indiana University now has a new method to support student veterans and military spouses, thanks to the Pat Tillman Foundation. IU has been selected as one of only fifteen schools in the country to receive support from the Pat Tillman Foundation, a nonprofit organization which provides funding to American war veterans who are working toward […]
The Operator Performance Laboratory (OPL) at the University of Iowa does flight test research, pilot performance assessment and pilot training systems research and design. The OPL is directed by Tom Schnell, associate professor in Mechanical and industrial Engineering, who is a commercial pilot and a flight instructor. LiveBIG sat down with Schnell to discuss the […]
How many times have educators told their students to ?shoot for the moon?? At Penn State, a select group of students are doing just that. Led by former NASA engineer Michael Paul, the students are building a lunar spacecraft that will be sent to the moon, and once there, will be able to move 500 […]
For Sarah McNitt, a student advisor at the University of Iowa, the remarkable joy that came from winning five days in a row on Jeopardy! was mitigated by the fact that her mother passed away just one month before she appeared on the show. So to salute the woman who helped make her the kind […]
After the Hoosiers? men?s basketball team takes on Nebraska tonight, the Indiana LiveBIG episode sheds light on life-saving proton therapy being done at Indiana University, and introduces you to a man who is defying the odds in Bloomington. Tom Morris is the assistant strength and conditioning coach at Indiana University, who worked specifically with the […]
Following this afternoon?s wrestling match against Minnesota, learn how the University of Iowa is developing more effective, cost-efficient flight training for the US military, and meet an inspiring student in the UI REACH program. When the University of Iowa developed a program that would allow high school students with multiple intellectual, cognitive and learning disabilities […]