Investing in innovation. Catalyzing change.
Priority 2: Fueling life-changing discovery and innovation
Asking bolder questions. Funding better answers. Changing more lives.
Here’s how you can help.
Arts and culture
Artists revolutionize, reshape, and renew our world. So at IU, we’re deeply committed to nurturing the artistic visionaries of tomorrow. Your gift can advance creative work that deepens understanding, preserves culture, and shapes how we connect with one another and the world.
Business and entrepreneurship
Investment in business research turns the spark of an idea into a venture that fuels economic growth and expands opportunity. Your support will cultivate the seeds of innovation that lead to sustainable growth—from the rural towns of Indiana to developing communities around the world.
Health and wellness
Across our nine campuses, we’re accelerating research that helps people live healthier, happier lives. With your help, we will propel new insights, treatments, and cures in fields ranging from medicine and nursing to optometry and dentistry to community and public health.
Science and technology
Artificial intelligence. Biomedical engineering. Quantum science. Microelectronics. Every day at IU, we’re pushing the boundaries of exploration in science and technology. Your investment will accelerate research that drives breakthroughs in data, energy, emerging technologies, and more.
Sustainability and the environment
IU researchers are resolutely pursuing sustainable solutions to today’s complex environmental issues. With your support, we will drive meaningful change in biodiversity and conservation, food system sustainability, environmental analytics, and much more—all for the benefit of our children, grandchildren, and generations to come.
Research with reach
Breakthroughs begin and end with people: students gaining hands-on experience, patients accessing new treatments, entrepreneurs launching new ventures.
Explore stories of the faculty, students, families, and communities whose lives are shaped by discovery in action.
Transforming obesity treatment
IU chemist Richard DiMarchi revolutionized diabetes and obesity care through groundbreaking peptide research that helped shape today’s GLP-1 therapies. His discoveries continue to improve lives while inspiring the next generation of scientific innovators.
Accelerating cancer discoveries
IU’s Cancer Drug Discovery and Development Accelerator helps researchers move promising cancer therapies from the lab to patients faster. By combining scientific expertise with industry partnerships, IU is advancing lifesaving treatments and fueling biotech innovation.
Driving Indiana innovation
Across IU’s regional campuses, student researchers are shaping the future of cancer treatment, improving cybersecurity, safeguarding Indiana’s ecology, memorializing Hoosier history, and more. Their discoveries strengthen communities while preparing them to lead the way to a better tomorrow.
