Join The Polis Center and WFYI on Thursday, March 25, at 9:30 a.m. as Polis Center analysts Matt Nowlin and Rebecca Nannery and Erik Steiner, Stanford University co-director of the Spatial History Project, share highlights from their research into economic opportunity in Indianapolis and social mobility and how it varies by neighborhood and race.

SAVE THE DATE: Our next SAVI Talks event is based on our research on the state of aging in Indiana in collaboration with the Central Indiana Senior Fund (CISF), a fund of the Central Indiana Community Foundation. Other partners include the IU Public Policy Institute and WFYI.

The Polis Center has been nominated for the TechPoint Mira Award Community Impact award. This award celebrates people or organizations that have helped to push Indiana’s tech community forward and is making a difference, especially relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We promoted our major 2020 project, the SAVI Coronavirus Data Hub and included a video overview.

We worked with School of Informatics and Computing Data Science graduate students on a national project to locate as many low-head dams as possible to improve the database inventory of these structures. Low-head dams are used to divert water from streams for agricultural and recreational purposes. They pose a danger to kayakers, rafters, and swimmers because the hydraulics during high water can swamp vessels and keep the swimmer pulled under at the base of the dam.

As Indianapolis embarks on a yearlong celebration of its bicentennial, the Polis Center at IUPUI—in collaboration with The Indianapolis Public Library and several major Indianapolis cultural and heritage institutions and organizations—is developing a bicentennial legacy project: a digital version of the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis.