LabWare Gift Fuels Fellowship for IU Informatics Students
Indiana University School of Informatics students pursuing a graduate degree in laboratory informatics will have the opportunity to advance their education and research experiences through a new program established by LabWare Inc.
The LabWare Fellowship for Innovation in Laboratory Informatics will aid students enrolled in the Laboratory Informatics Graduate Program at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus. Each recipient will receive a one-time award of $30,000, enabling them to study and pursue their research full time under the guidance of informatics faculty.
“The LabWare gift allows the School to help deserving students attain professional careers in information technology to laboratory sciences and bench-side research,” says IU Informatics Dean J. Michael Dunn, Ph.D.
The LabWare fellowship and the Laboratory Informatics Graduate Program are the first of their kind in the world.
The program at IUPUI is designed for students with undergraduate degrees in laboratory-based life sciences whose advanced training in laboratory informatics can lead to careers in the agricultural, biomedical, chemical, food, petroleum and pharmaceutical industries.
LabWare is an international software products company focused exclusively on configurable laboratory information management systems (LIMS). Many international companies rely on LabWare LIMS to support their product development and quality assurance functions.
“We are pleased to continue our relationship with the IU School of Informatics, which has earned an international reputation in preparing today’s students to become tomorrow’s leaders in advancing laboratory sciences,” says LabWare President Vance V. Kershner.
It’s not the first time the two institutions have partnered on a project. In July 2003, the Wilmington, Del., company established an active training center at the School’s IUPUI facilities, where professionals from around the country are trained in LabWare LIMS.
In addition, LabWare has provided its experts for training and support, and internship opportunities for laboratory informatics graduate students.
Informatics is an evolving field that studies and explains the impact of information technology and develops new uses for it in areas such as health, science, the arts, education, business and industry.
The IU School of Informatics was established in 2000 – the first and the largest of its kind in the nation – and has nearly 1,600 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in programs at campuses in Bloomington, Indianapolis and South Bend.
About the Indiana University School of Informatics
The Indiana University School of Informatics offers a unique, interdisciplinary curriculum that focuses on developing specialized skills and knowledge of information technology. The School has a variety of undergraduate degrees and specialized master’s and doctorate degrees in bioinformatics, chemical informatics, health informatics, human-computer interaction, laboratory informatics and media arts and science. Each degree is an interdisciplinary endeavor that combines course work and field experiences from a traditional subject area or discipline with intensive study of information and technology. For more information, visit the School’s Web sites:
www.informatics.indiana.edu
www.informatics.iupui.edu
www.informatics.iusb.edu
