Not your mother’s dorm room
IU’s trustees approved a policy last September calling for all undergrad, first-year students enrolled at IUB to live on campus, primarily to facilitate access to the array of learning environments and programs that enrich the lives of residential students and for which the campus was named College of the Year by Time magazine in 2001; the policy will translate to several hundred more move-ins this year than last. Get ready, Bloomington, the residence halls open at 8 a.m. Aug. 27. For advice on packing for college (no waterbeds, goldfish optional), check out this "move-in guide." Or take a tour of some very "Cool Rooms."

An eyeful of Mars, ‘slices of the sky’
Also on Aug. 27, the planet Mars will be as close to Earth as it has been in more than 1,000 years, and two IU observatories will be open to give the public an even clearer view. Meanwhile, the world’s largest astronomical camera, designed by astrophysicists at IU and Yale, is photographing the sky and its mysteries from California’s Palomar Observatory.

ARTrepreneurship
IU Kokomo’s Minda Douglas is busy doing research on printmaking techniques and exploring her own artistic endeavors. She’s also intent on "ARTrepreneurship"—how the arts can spur economic development.

Granting the way to knowledge
A Geriatrics Education Network of Indiana to prepare the physician workforce to care for the state’s aging population; establishment of a Drosophila Genome Research Center and research on genetic recombination by a multidisciplinary team that will explore how genetic reshuffling helps or harms individuals and species are all in the works through grants received by IU faculty this summer.

Photo by Paul Martens
IU’s 17th president, Adam Herbert (right) greeted Frederick F. Eichhorn Jr., president of the IU Board of Trustees, on Herbert’s first official day at work Aug. 1. Herbert recounted his impressions of the first two weeks on the job and his plans for the university at today’s trustees’ meeting on the IUPUI campus. Eichhorn was elected to another term as president. article

Today's feature End of summer ‘Stardust’ If you’re new to Indiana or simply need a little stardust to begin the fall semester, check out the 2nd annual Hoagy Carmichael Festival, Aug. 27-30 in Bloomington. IU alumnus Hoagy Carmichael had a degree in law, but jazz was his legacy. End of summer ‘Stardust’

‘Ken Burns' American Stories’ looks at Benton and his murals
WTIU will re-broadcast a biographical treatment of American regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton Sunday at 1 p.m. Benton’s Social and Industrial History of Indiana, mural panels painted for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, are housed on the Bloomington campus and continue to spark both interest and controversy.