Awards

IU Indianapolis Spirit of Philanthropy Award - 2014

About Robert Orr

In 2001, Robert and Terri Orr established the Brancato Scholarship in honor of Robert's mother, Kathryn Brancato Cushman, and her father, Michelangelo Brancato. The scholarship was established in support of students who are single parents juggling academic pursuits and course work in tandem with parenting.

Robert Orr served as a distinguished member of the faculty in the school as professor of computer and information technology from 1985 to 2006. Dr. Orr’s research interests included Applied Statistics, Leadership, Writing Across the Curriculum, and Information Quality. In 2001, he received the Wisner Stoelk Outstanding Faculty Award, Purdue School of Engineering & Technology at IUPUI. Orr was inducted into FACET, the IU Faculty Colloquim on Excellence in Teaching, in 1991 and served as its co-director from 2001 to 2006.