Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie listens to Global Access Point President and CEO Kevin Smith (left) during a tour of the Union Station Technology Center, which is a South Bend facility for data collection management. President McRobbie visited IU South Bend and businesses in the community as part of his statewide tour from 2015-2016.Next, IU President Michael A. McRobbie toured South Bend's Renaissance District, which includes the former Studebaker assembly complex (pictured here) and Union Station Technology Center. Global Access Point is repurposing the massive Studebaker building to house a data center.Global Access Point COO Shane Fimbel (left) and President and CEO Kevin Smith give a tour of the former Studebaker assembly plant to IU Trustee Melanie S. Walker, IU President Michael A. McRobbie and IU South Bend Chancellor Terry L. Allison. About 35 Indiana University graduates are employed in South Bend's Renaissance District.Global Access Point President and CEO Kevin Smith (left) explains the upcoming renovations to the former Studebaker assembly plant to Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie. The company's goal is to partner with educators and to create a high-tech work space that can compete internationally.Global Access Point President and CEO Kevin Smith (right) talks about his vision for the Global Access Data Center campus with IU President Michael A. McRobbie.Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie surveys the South Bend skyline from the roof of the former Studebaker assembly plant. Once renovations are completed at the Global Access Data Center campus, it will be as big as IU South Bend. Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie asks a question during a tour of Union Station Technology Center in South Bend.Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie speaks with South Bend Code School co-founder Alex Sejdinaj, an IU Bloomington alumnus, during a tour of the Union Station Technology Center in South Bend.Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie and IU South Bend Chancellor Terry L. Allison (right) have lunch with IU South Bend honor students.IU South Bend student Sergio Ortiz Cardoso, a junior studying business and economics, talks about his projects during a lunch with IU President Michael A. McRobbie and IU South Bend Chancellor Terry L. Allison.IU President Michael A. McRobbie praised the IU South Bend honor students for their hard work. Following their lunch together, the group gathered for a photo. From the left are Sergio Ortiz Cardoso, Briannah McCall, Desmond Atem, IU Trustee Melanie S. Walker, IU President Michael A. McRobbie, IU South Bend Chancellor Terry L. Allison, Shail Bhagat, Alexandra Hochstetler, IU South Bend Honors Program Director Neovi Karakatsanis and Jacob Parker.Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend Associate Dean Mark Fox (left), IU President Michael A. McRobbie, IU Trustee Philip N. Eskew Jr. and IU South Bend Chancellor Terry L. Allison share a laugh before a laboratory tour at IU South Bend.IU School of Medicine-South Bend Professor Limb Hapairai, who has expertise in parasitology and entomology, greets IU President Michael A. McRobbie during a tour of the laboratory where Hapairai and others research mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus and other diseases.This dish contains Aedes aegypti larvae, commonly known as yellow fever mosquito larvae, in a laboratory at the Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend. Researchers are testing ways to stop the mosquitoes before they can transmit diseases like the Zika virus.Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie looks at Aedes aegypti larvae under a microscope in a laboratory at the Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend.IU Trustee Melanie S. Walker (left), IU School of Medicine-South Bend Associate Professor Molly Scheel, IU President Michael A. McRobbie and IU researcher Limb Hapairai discuss mosquitoes and Zika.Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie speaks with South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg before a dinner with the IU South Bend Advisory Board on the IU South Bend campus.Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie addresses the South Bend Advisory Board.
