Honors college to be renamed after Edward Hutton\nThe IU Honors College is holding a reception today celebrating the renaming of the College for Edward L. Hutton, an IU alumnus and prominent philanthropist and businessman from Cincinnati, Ohio.\nThe reception, to be held in the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, will take place from 3 to 5 p.m.\nHutton, chairman of Omnicare Inc., and chairman of Chemed Corp. in Cincinnati, grew up in Bedford, Ind. Hutton earned a bachelor's and master's degrees from IU and served in Germany for the U.S. Army.\nTwo years ago, Hutton gave IU $9 million to establish an International Experiences Program endowment.\n"Ed Hutton has added new meaning to President Herman Wells' statement that the campus of Indiana University is not just in Bloomington, not just in Indiana or in the United States, but extends around the globe," said IU President Adam Herbert. "He has helped our students become citizens of the world, and for that he has our enduring gratitude."
Video conference focuses on South Asia development\nThe Center for the Study of Global Change will host a "face to face" video conference Wednesday with victims of the South Asian tsunami in Sri Lanka. Sponsored by the campus chapter of Americans for Informed Democracy and IU Conversations About Service and Engagement, the event is designed to strengthen public awareness of the need for development in South Asia.\nThe video conference will feature opening reports by Sri Lankan leaders and citizens, including Lalith Weeratunga, secretary to the prime minister and member of the Task Force to Rebuild the Nation; Dr. Kan Tun, World Health Organization and Dr. Lalith Wikramanayake, chairperson, Environmental Foundation Ltd. \nThe conference will take place from 8 to 10 a.m. at the Center for the Study of Global Change, 201 N. Indiana Ave.
