Informatics? Digitorium? Welcome to NKU

Faculty began moving their things to Griffin Hall — the new home of the College of Informatics — early this month, and classes will begin there in August. The $53 million building will house hard-to-find programs in high-growth information industries, including Health Informatics, Library Informatics and a Center for Applied Informatics. Informatics – basically creating and manipulating information – is a trendy word among colleges, even if very few people know what it means. NKU hopes to add up to 700 new students to the existing 1,400 in the next several years.”When this building opens up and students see what’s going on here, they’ll say, ‘You mean informatics is writing? It’s filmmaking and editing? You mean it has to do with business and with health care?’ said Dean Doug Perry, who has resigned as dean and plans to leave NKU later this summer. “The real return is what this will do for putting not only the College of Informatics on the map, but the entire university.”Read the whole story here.