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In the News
2021
- Center for Innovation & Change Receives $50,000 to Increase Innovation Culture in Southern Indiana”
- Two ChangeLabs Nominated for Celebration of Leadership Awards
- COVID Between the Coasts ChangeLab Receives COVID-19 Community Collaboration Award
- WNIN Partnership with UE’s ChangeLab Program Receives Regional Edward R Murrow Awards
- COVID Between the Coasts ChangeLab Selected as a Semifinalist in Local That Works Contest
- COVID Between the Coasts ChangeLab Receives National Edward R. Murrow Innovation Award
- COVID Between the Coasts ChangeLab Tells Stories of COVID Impact in the Midwest
- COVID Between the Coasts ChangeLab Receives Regional Edward R Murrow Awards
- Center for Innovation & Change Receives $50,000 Elevate Ventures Innovation Grant
- LatinX ChangeLab Providing Vaccines to High School Students
- COVID Between the Coasts ChangeLab Providing Data Analysis on COVID in the Midwest
- Local Students Win UE’s 6th Annual High School Changemaker Challenge
2020
- Community Changemaker Challenge Winner and ChangeLab Evansville Adaptive Watersports Officially Launched
- University of Evansville First in Indiana to be named Ashoka Changemaker Campus
- UE ChangeLab Student Robert Lopez Breaks Ground on Trinity Storm Waterpark
- Center for Innovation & Change Projects Nominated for Celebration of Leadership Award
- UE ChangeLab Student Robert Lopez’s Project Part of Green Infrastructure Project for City
- UE’s Mad Hot Ballroom Program Partners with Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra for Tango Performance
- Two ChangeLab Projects Receive Honorable Mentions at 2020 CIVVYS, National Community Collaboration Awards
2019
- Signature School Students Win 5th Annual Changemaker Challenge
- Evansville African American Museum Partners with Center for Innovation & Change to Launch Community Changemaker Challenge
- University of Evansville one of only a few schools in Midwest awarded Ashoka Changemaker Campus Status
- UE’s Mad Hot Ballroom Changemaker Program wins Celebration of Leadership Award.
- Changemaker Challenge Deadline Looming (WNIN)
- Ideas sought for Community Changemaker Challenge (Eyewitness News)
2018
- North students pitch musical swing set, win 4th UE Changemaker Challenge, others presented (Courier & Press) - Photo gallery of 2018 event
- 3 North HS Students Win Full Ride to UE (14 WFIE)
- Three Evansville North Students Win Full UE Tuition as part of Changemaker Challenge (Eyewitness News)
- Students from North High School win Full Tuition at UE's High School Changemaker Challenge
- High School Changemaker (WEHT Lifestyles)
- UE Announces New Center For Innovation And Change (Inside Indiana Business)
- Evansville Rotary Club Donates $20,000 to UE Changemakers (14 WFIE)
- Rotary Donates to UE’s Changemaker Challenge (Eyewitness News)
2017
- University of Evansville opens Changemaker Incubator
- Two schools win UE Changemaker Challenge competition, get full tuition scholarships via The Evansville Courier and Press
- Check out the Rotary Club Santa Run – Sponsor of UE’s 2018 Changemaker Challenge
- Jill Griffin at TEDxEvansville: “Changemaker Math and the Art of Critical Doing”
- Dr. Griffin Speaks about Changemaking at Rotary
- Mayor Lloyd Winnecke discusses UE's Bike Share program and ChangeMaker Challenge in his State of the City Address
Video courtesy of the Evansville Courier & Press - Changemaker Challenge Winners Interviewed on WEHT Lifestyles
- Celebration of Leadership Awards Upgrade Bikeshare
- Changemaker Challenge Lifestyle interview with Erin Lewis
- WNIN's Samantha Horton Live Tweets from the 3rd Annual Collegiate Changemaker Challenge
- Griffin uses analytical background to help
2016
- University of Evansville receives Ball Brothers Venture Grant for Social Innovation Incubator
- WEVV High School Changemaker Challenge 2016 News Report
- Dr. Kazee Speaks about Changemaker Challenge
- 14 News coverage of the High School Changemaker Challenge Winners
- Castle wins first high school UE Changemaker Challenge
- Newburgh School Wins "Changemaker Challenge
- Castle HS students win full-tuition scholarships to UE
- New Tech Students to Take Part in Changemaker Challenge
- UE launches high school Changemaker Challenge
- Students Take Part in Changemakers Challenge
- Winners of UE’s High School Changemaker Challenge to receive full scholarships
- UE High School Changemaker Challenge Interview
2015
- Grant Will Help Carver Reduce Electric Bills
- UE group gets grant to install solar panels
- Kenya fundraising dinner is Saturday at Aldersgate
- Changemakers students want to make a difference
- Connections with Kazee highlights Changemaker Challenge
- Challenge winners look to help Evansville get fit
- Challenge winners help UE conserve energy
- UE students push for 'green' campus
- UE Receives Ball Brothers Foundation Venture Fund Grant for New Neuromarketing Center
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