IU Professor Henry Glassie wins Haskins Prize for lifetime achievement
Henry Glassie, College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, has been awarded the Charles Homer Haskins Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Full Story »Presentation to explore importance of objects and memory after 9/11, other disasters
A keepsake two-dollar bill in a man's wallet. A firefighter's battered helmet. A sister's favorite handbag. Everyday objects, they became something more when retrieved from the ruins of the World Trade Center towers. Filmmaker Jonathan Fein will examine how people invest such ordinary objects with deep personal meaning in the aftermath of catastrophes in a presentation Tuesday (Dec. 1) at Indiana University.
Full Story »IU physicists celebrate restart of world's largest particle accelerator
Fourteen years and billions of dollars later, physicists at Indiana University today are celebrating their collaboration in the successful restart of the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.
Full Story »'Ardi' discoverer to speak at Indiana University
Anthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie, who found the first fragment of the newly reported Ardipithecus ramidus skeleton nicknamed "Ardi," will talk about the discovery and its implications at Indiana University Bloomington. The Dec. 1 lecture is sponsored by the Stone Age Institute and Indiana University's CRAFT Research Center.
Full Story »IU Ethics Bowl team heads to national competition in March
Indiana University's 2009 Ethics Bowl team placed third last week in the Central States Ethics Bowl Regional competition, ensuring its place in upcoming national competition. The team is comprised of five undergraduate students and is sponsored by the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University.
Full Story »SoFA students showcase final projects, 'Overseas Study' exhibitions
Indiana University's School of Fine Arts (SoFA) Gallery will host "The School of Fine Arts Abroad: Overseas Study Exhibition," opening Dec. 1 (Tuesday), and a simultaneous Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting show. A separate Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition will be Dec. 8-12 (Tuesday-Saturday).
Full Story »IU Theatre and Drama to close fall season with biting satire 'Parentheses of Blood'
Indiana University's Department of Theatre and Drama wraps up the first half of its 2009-2010 Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center season with Sony Labou Tansi's darkly funny Parentheses of Blood under the direction of Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, assistant professor of acting and directing.
Full Story »Water on the moon: Indiana University geologist comments
NASA's apparent discovery of copious water on the moon is a revolutionary development that could help answer questions about the origin of water on earth and other mysteries of the solar system, says Indiana University geologist Abhijit Basu.
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