Photo by John R. Gentry Jr A total of 19,535 students were eligible to receive degrees on IU’s eight campuses this month at commencements—7,687 from IU and 1,848 from Purdue. The festivities began in Bloomington May 5 and concluded in Indianapolis May 13, where this proud family was photographed at the RCA Dome before the academic procession began. Click on the picture (above) to see more links to graduation related photo web sites.

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IU graduate student Denver Whittington is living in Ferney-Voltaire, France, near his work site at the world's largest particle physics laboratory. See how he and other IU physicists are involved in the largest scientific collaboration of all time, the Large Hadron Collider, which is set to turn on for the first time this fall.

  • IU major player in CERN’s collider project through ATLAS
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