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Indiana Michigan Power

Indiana Michigan Power is an investor-owned electric utility in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a subsidiary of American Electric Power serving over 600,000 customers across 30 counties.

Indiana Pacers

Indiana Pacers: Indianapolis NBA team founded 1967 in the ABA, named for harness racing pacers and the Indy 500 pace car; three ABA titles (1970, 1972, 1973), Reggie Miller era, NBA Finals losses in 2000 and 2025.

Indiana State University

Indiana State University (ISU), founded December 20, 1865 as the Indiana State Normal School in Terre Haute, is a public doctoral/moderate-research university and Sycamores MVC athletics; recent enrollment recovery under President Mike Godard.

Indiana University

Indiana University (IU) is a public university system founded in 1820 as a state seminary at Bloomington. Its flagship campus is IU Bloomington; since July 2024 its second core campus is independent IU Indianapolis after the IUPUI split, with seven regional campuses, R1 research status, and a $4.7 billion FY2027 budget.

Indiana University Bloomington

Indiana University Bloomington, also known as IU Bloomington, is the flagship residential campus of the Indiana University system in Bloomington, Indiana, founded as a state seminary in 1820.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), public doctoral university in Indiana, PA; founded 1875 as Indiana Normal School; PASSHE member, only system school with PhD programs; R2 Carnegie classification; 9,130 students fall 2026.

Indiana University School of Medicine

Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM), founded 1903, is the largest accredited U.S. medical school, a nine-campus Indiana system, LCME-accredited through 2032-33, 13th among public schools in NIH funding.

Indiana vesiculovirus

Indiana vesiculovirus, also known as vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus, is a bullet-shaped RNA rhabdovirus that causes vesicular stomatitis in cattle, horses, and swine in the Americas.

Indiana's congressional delegations

Indiana's congressional delegations: the state's two U.S. senators and nine U.S. House representatives since 1816, currently 7 Republicans and 2 Democrats in the House plus Senators Todd Young and Jim Banks, under Republican-drawn 2021 maps after a rejected 2025 mid-decade redistricting bid.

Indianapolis

Indianapolis, capital of Indiana since 1825, is a purpose-built capital founded in 1821 with a one-mile-square plat, central circle, and four diagonal avenues adapted from Washington, DC; metro population about 2.2 million.

Indianapolis 500

The Indianapolis 500 is an annual 500-mile, 200-lap IndyCar race at the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway, first run May 30, 1911 and won by Ray Harroun; part of motorsport's Triple Crown.

Indianapolis Colts

Indianapolis Colts, NFL team in the AFC South; founded January 23, 1953 as the Baltimore Colts, moved to Indianapolis in 1984. Won NFL titles 1958, 1959, 1968 and Super Bowls V and XLI; owned by the Irsay family.

Indianapolis Indians

Indianapolis Indians, Triple-A International League baseball team and Pittsburgh Pirates affiliate since 2005. Founded 1902, second-oldest MiLB franchise, longest continuous team name, home at Victory Field since 1996.

Indianapolis International Airport

Indianapolis International Airport, known as Weir-Cook Airport until 1976, is the main airport for Indianapolis, Indiana, 7 miles southwest, handling a record 10.6 million passengers in 2025.

Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS), 2.5-mile oval in Speedway, Indiana, opened 1909; oldest continually operating US racetrack, home of the Indianapolis 500 since 1911, Brickyard 400, and the $60.5 million renovated IMS Museum.

Indianapolis Racers

Indianapolis Racers, WHA hockey team 1974-1978, played at Market Square Arena; won 1976 Eastern Division under Jacques Demers; signed Wayne Gretzky in 1978 and sold him to Edmonton before folding December 15, 1978.

Indianism

Indianism (Portuguese: indianismo) is a literary current of nineteenth-century Brazilian Romanticism that made the idealized Indian a symbol of the new nation, led by José de Alencar and Gonçalves Dias.

Indianmeal moth

Indianmeal moth (Plodia interpunctella, pantry moth), a pyralid moth and major worldwide pest of stored foods. Larvae web and contaminate grains, nuts, dried fruit, and pet food; controlled by sanitation, freezing, pheromone traps, and parasitoids.

Indianola, Texas

Indianola, Texas: ghost town port on Matagorda Bay in Calhoun County, also called Indian Point or Karlshafen; founded 1846, second port of Texas, destroyed by hurricanes in 1875 and 1886 and abandoned by 1887.

Indians in Kenya

The Indian community in Kenya is a South Asian diaspora of about 80,000, established by migrants arriving since the 1890s as laborers and traders under British rule.

Indians in the United Arab Emirates

Indians in the UAE form the country's largest ethnic community, about 4.3 million people or roughly 35 percent of the population, concentrated in Dubai and the Northern Emirates, with Kerala the most represented origin state.

Indians in Uganda

Indians in Uganda, also called Ugandan Asians, are a South Asian community mostly Gujarati and Punjabi, expelled by Idi Amin in 1972 and later rebuilt.

IndiaOne Air

IndiaOne Air is an Indian regional airline based in Ahmedabad operating nine-seat Cessna Caravan flights linking smaller cities, mainly in eastern India, under the UDAN connectivity scheme.

Indibilis

Indibilis, also called Andobales, was an Iberian king of the Ilergetes who fought in the Second Punic War from 218 BC until his death in 205 BC.

Indica (Megasthenes)

Indica (τὰ Ἰνδικά), Megasthenes' lost four-book Greek account of India, written as Seleucus I's ambassador to Chandragupta Maurya at Pataliputra, survives in fragments via Diodorus, Strabo, Arrian, and Pliny.

Indicated mean effective pressure

Indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) is the work delivered by gas to an engine piston per cycle, divided by the engine's displaced volume; it lets engines of different sizes be compared.

Indicator (titration)

An indicator in titration is a small amount of colored dye, itself a weak acid or base, whose color change marks the titration's end point.

Indicator diagram

An indicator diagram, also called an indicator card, is a pressure-volume plot of an engine or compressor cycle whose enclosed area gives the net work done.

Indicator displacement assay

An indicator displacement assay is an analytical chemistry method in which a target analyte displaces a bound indicator dye from a synthetic receptor, changing absorbance or fluorescence.

Indicator function

The indicator function, also called the characteristic function of a set, maps elements of a set to 1 if they belong to a subset and 0 otherwise.