IU School of Informatics adds ‘Computing’ to name

After a change in direction, a change of name was also in order to reflect the expansion of study at the IU School of Informatics, which has been renamed the School of Informatics and Computing.

The school was founded in 2000, the first of its kind in the United States, with focuses on information technology, emphasizing societal implications of science. Since 2005, the school has had informatics and computer science programs, according to an IU press release.

The name change makes it more apparent that the school is competitive with “peer institutions,” Dean Bobby Schnabel said in a press release.

“The new name better depicts what we are as a school,” he said in the release.
The name change became official July 1.

The school offers bachelor’s and doctoral programs in informatics and computer science, and master’s programs in computer science, bioinformatics, chemical informatics, human computer interaction design and security informatics.