Photo by Chris Meyer
Chuck Burleson, a staff member from the IUB Physical Plant's Campus Division, helps get the IUB campus in the holiday spirit by securing bows and evergreen to campus light posts.
Today's Feature
A season of giving
The staff of
IU Home Pages wishes you a safe and restful winter break. We will resume publication on Friday, Jan. 14. As the campuses begin the final days of the fall semester, students, staff and faculty alike consider what gifts to choose for those who will be a part of their holiday celebrations. We've selected a few last-minute gift ideas from the IU campuses, some of which you can order online.
Additional top stories
Six first-year professional school students are profiled in a new documentary examining a week in the hectic lives of optometrists in the making.
Gifts of the season
A $40 million
gift to the IU School of Music in Bloomington (now the Jacobs School of Music); a
$15 million gift for scholarships to working students; and a whopping $70 million gift for other scholarship endowments have been announced by the university in the past two months.
An East Coaster by birth, IU East's Jean Harper has transplanted to the Midwest with resiliency and a growing sense of admiration for her adopted state. She tells all in a new memoir.
Diversity is not so much a dilemma as it is a promise, says IU Bloomington political scientist Yvette Alex-Assensoh. She discusses civic engagement, poverty and inequality as one of 19 authors of a new book from the Brookings Institution Press.
Watch the "life-journey" of young musicians, age 11-17, who comprise Violin Virtuosi at the IU School of Music's String Academy, as they travel, practice, study and aspire to be world-class performers. Other public television stations throughout the country will be airing the documentary, beginning in March.
In a Freshman Learning Community at IU Kokomo, new students are learning the skill sets necessary to find a passionate direction for their lives. One requirement: transforming a Superfund site into a work of art.
