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unusual facts about Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne


Dane Fife

Fife is the former head coach of the Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Mastodons men's basketball team and former college assistant coach at Indiana University.


Eric Knechtges

Eric Knechtges has studied at the Indiana University (Bloomington) Jacobs School of Music (DM), Bowling Green State University (MM) and Michigan State University (BMusEd); he has also taught music (band, chorus, and music appreciation) at Addison Community Schools in Michigan.

Hermione Lee

In the USA, she has been a visiting teaching fellow at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, a Whitney J. Oates Fellow at the Council for the Humanities at Princeton, an Everett Helm visiting fellow at the Lilly Library at the Indiana University at Bloomington, and the Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow of the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in 2004-5.

Herron High School

It is located at 110 East 16th Street, just north of downtown Indianapolis in the building formerly occupied by Herron School of Art and Design of Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis.

Indiana University

Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is the premier urban campus of Indiana University.

Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis

The Josiah Royce Papers, which is preparing a critical edition of the works of the American idealist philosopher.

The Frederick Douglass Edition, which is preparing a critical edition of the writings of the 19th century journalist, orator, abolitionist, and African-American leader.

Jerry Slocum

In 2006, Slocum donated over 30,000 puzzles to the Lilly Library at Indiana University, marking the first time a major collection of puzzles was made available in an academic setting.

John Michael Hayden

A two-time Parade Magazine All-American at Trinity High School in Louisville, Kentucky, Hayden matriculated at Indiana University in 2002.

Marcus Peter Blakemore

In the fall of 1910, Blakemore enrolled in Indiana University, rooming with Byron Kenneth Armstrong.

Mike Mallory

Mallory is the son of Bill Mallory, who has served as the head football coach at Miami University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Northern Illinois University, and Indiana University.

Problem of universals

Nino Cocchiarella (1975), professor emeritus of philosophy at Indiana University, has maintained that conceptual realism is the best response to certain logical paradoxes to which nominalism leads.

Purdue Big Bass Drum

The BBD has also gained national attention on several occasions, such as when it has been stolen, usually by students from Notre Dame or Big Ten rival, Indiana.

Simeon K. Wolfe

Born near Georgetown, Indiana, Wolfe attended Floyd County schools, and was graduated from the law department of Indiana University in 1850.


see also

Bernd Fischer

Bernd Jürgen Fischer, historian and professor of history at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne