IUSB Honors

10/20/2026

Honors students and alumni are encouraged to share their IU story here: https://iuadvancement-fireform.eas.iu.edu/online/form/index/iusuccessstory

10 storytellers will be selected at random, and each will designate an IU fund to receive a $1,000 gift.

What’s your IU story? ❤️

Maybe it’s a friendship that’s lasted decades or a game you still talk about. Whatever comes to mind, we’d love to hear it.

Share your story through the form below by Oct. 31 and you could be one of 10 participants randomly selected to direct $1,000 to an IU fund of your choice.

🔗: https://iuadvancement-fireform.eas.iu.edu/online/form/index/iusuccessstory

10/14/2026

We had a record number of blood donations at this semester's blood drive! Thank you to IUSB Office of Student Life for partnering with the Honors Program and South Bend Medical Foundation (SBMF) to incorporate this drive into our campus' Spirit Week. SBMF was able to collect 53 units of blood, saving up to 106 lives in our community! This is almost double the amount collected in our past blood drives. Our Director, Dr. Luppes, was even spotted saving lives. Thank you to all of the donors who made this such a great success! 🎉

10/08/2026

Congratulations to honors student and elementary education major, Grace Lynch, on being 1 of only 2 Distinguished Alumni Service Award (DASA) Scholars from IU South Bend! The DASA recognizes outstanding leaders on our campus who are graduating seniors and have a proven record of excellence both in and out of the classroom as demonstrated by both GPA and leadership and service work. We are so proud of you, Grace!

10/05/2026

Going to a campus event? 📳Your event pass is your personal QR code for quick and check-in at IU South Bend you easily access your event pass through Titan atlas. Common what are you waiting for 😉

09/24/2026

Looking to gain hands on experience and work inside your community? Then come join us for Families First Networking Event in the honors lounge this Wednesday!

09/21/2026

📣Attention Honors Alumni! We want to know what you've been up to since graduation. Please email updates to [email protected], so that we can share your good news in our next newsletter. We can't wait to hear from you!

09/14/2026

Thank you all!

08/26/2026

Looking to get an honors event done early, but can't make it to our Pizza Party? 📣This just in: The Titan Splash Color Fun Run (https://titanatlas.iusb.edu/event/12490780) taking place Monday, August 31st, can now count as an honors event. To receive credit, be sure to check in and out with our intern, Rosh, and stay for the whole event (5:30-6:30pm).

07/29/2026

We are so proud of all that our student Diana Zebroski has accomplished during her time at IU South Bend and look forward to seeing where else her path leads during her final semester and post-graduation!

Diana Zebroski has blazed her own unique trail to success at IU South Bend.

“I wanted to save the world in the first place, but I’ve learned through my studies that that’s obviously not possible,” she says. “What we can do is to make an impact in our own communities, so here I am."

After moving to the U.S. from the Netherlands as a teenager, Zebroski took an unconventional path to higher education, starting at IU South Bend at age 34. This December, she'll graduate with double majors in Sustainability Studies and Spanish while gaining hands-on experience with local environmental organizations as a McKinney Climate Fellow.

Read about Diana's story: https://news.iu.edu/southbend/live/news/51904-diana-zebroski-on-course-to-graduate-as-double

06/15/2026

Indiana University South Bend honors student and computer science/actuarial science major, Duwayne Gray, attended this year's Purdue Data Mine Symposium in Lafayette as the Lead TA for the USDA Forestry project, developing an internal dashboard for monitoring the mortality of different tree species across the United States. His team also created a working machine learning application to help researchers run analyses based on specific areas of interest, such as biomass. We are thrilled to see our students actively leading and inspiring others on campuses beyond our own! (See post comments for photos of Duwayne's team's presentation at the Purdue Data Mine Symposium.)