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Keep Evansville Beautiful, the Alcoa Foundation and other organizations worked to establish a community garden this year near the school DENNY SIMMONS / Courier Press Jessica Miller spends her evening on the porch of her Glenwood Middle School neighborhood home as her kids, from left, Mariah Miller, 2, Makenzi Redman, 5, and Aidan Miller, 3, create ...

This week in iReport, we blast off into the skies and splash into the vast waters of the Mississippi River.

Before she sat at the helm of the University of Southern Indiana, Dr. Linda Bennett was a professor whose days included lectures about the basics of American politics.

The University of Southern Indiana board of trustees will meet at 1 p.m. Thursday in Carter Hall, which is in the University Center.

The University of Southern Indiana marked 'Mole Day' on Thursday by hosting high school students for a quiz bowl, laboratory tours and a literally explosive demonstration.

Here engineering students at theA University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, IN have installedA a high definition video camera looking upward at their high altitude balloon.A The balloon carries a string of experimental pods.A Between the pods and the balloon is a parachute.

Vampires seem to be everywhere in pop culture today, many of them part of a new breed found in books and in movies and television.

If you saw a large hot-air balloon floating around the Tri-State area Saturday, it wasn't a hoax.

After years of listening to people in his hometown ask when he's going to perform with the Evansville Philharmonic again, Nino P. Cocchiarella finally has an answer.

Nearly one million dollars is heading to the University of Southern Indiana for various repair projects around campus.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels wants to speed up construction of the Interstate 69 extension, and he says the state has a way to do that.

Campus Progress reports that Morton Blackwell, founder of the right-wing young adult organization, the Leadership Institute , has launched a new social-networking site for young conservatives called CampusReform.

ITT Technical Institute has expanded its academic endeavors by adding two associate degree programs.

The Chamber of Commerce of Southwest Indiana board of directors, volunteers and staff congratulate the 2009 ATHENA finalists.

Congress has approved $1 million for advanced manufacturing and engineering equipment at the University of Southern Indiana.

The nationwide shortage of quality math and science teachers is a "crisis" that higher education must play a critical role in solving, a visiting scholar said Wednesday at the University of Southern Indiana.

A retired former chairman of the board and CEO of Contech Construction Products for the heavy construction industry, Henderson has been married to Carolyn for 50 years.

Perry Central will host College 101 Night at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Perry Central Elementary cafeteria.

When a student walks out of class for the last time, teachers sometimes wonder: Did I make a difference? Harriet Russell's work nearly 40 years ago made a difference, the kind that takes years to surface.

A cluster of University of Southern Indiana students is working hard to educate the campus community about good hygiene habits.