Matt Link If you think that Hoosier weather is turning chilly, talk to Matt Link, director of systems for University Information Technology Services' research technologies division, pictured here looking at the calving front of the Jakobshavn glacier near Ilulissat, Greenland. Link manages the IU team that assembled computational equipment from IU’s Polar Grid Project that was deployed in September to Antarctica and will allow scientists -- both on site and remotely -- to more securely and efficiently process data during polar field expeditions.
Today's Feature

Dennis Sinor

IE at IU

International education, that is. IU President Michael McRobbie will leave Beijing tomorrow after a successful week in Asia-- nearly a year after his first presidential trip to China-- forging relationships with institutions and IU alumni in that region of the world. Global engagement is a thread that runs deep through university history, and we invite you to visit a few corners of the world in the stories below. Our thanks to Lynn Schoch, editor of IU’s International News, for sharing feature content.

  • McRobbie delegation in China, Korea
  • Agreement expands Korean partnership
  • Context: A trip to China in 2007
  • International honors: Frank Lester, David Audretsch
  • From Budapest to Bloomington: IU’s Denis Sinor
  • OVPIA has new faculty grant opportunities
  • Wolin’s portraits of Hoosier international citizens
  • International Education Week

    • Additional top stories

    Looking back

    October’s homecoming at IU Bloomington brought together the best of student, faculty, staff and alumni activities. Relive the “Field of Dreams” in these photo galleries of the IU vs. Northwestern football game Oct. 25 and other fun stuff, including the annual cornhole tournament.

    Pop, pop, fizz, fizz

    Ilan Levine IU South Bend’s Ilan Levine will present the campus’ Distinguished Research Award lecture Nov. 18 on the heels of a breakthrough in dark matter studies that allows researchers to "listen" for dark matter interactions with droplets of superheated ordinary matter. The droplets "pop" to gas bubbles and the ultrasonic transducers designed by IU South Bend students allows for the detection of sound accompanying the pops.

    Celebrate IU

    A contest brought out the best in IU student videographers as they defined the reasons they love the university. Watch them all.

    2B or not 2B

    Hamlet Imagine going home from college to mourn the death of your father, only to discover that your mother has married your uncle, your lover is falling off the deep end and the only way out is to follow your father's ghost. (Shakespeare’s classic opens for the first time in a half-century on an IU Bloomington stage Nov. 14.)

    This is dedicated

    October also brought a round of ceremonies: the IU Southeast Residence Halls were dedicated Oct. 15; new kinesiology lab space was named after Hal Morris Oct. 24; and groundbreakings were performed for the Glick Eye Institute in Indianapolis (Oct. 7) and for a new ‘green’ field lab on the grounds of the Research and Teaching Preserve in Bloomington (Oct. 20).

    ‘Top docs,’ a cancer summit

    Twenty of the 25 Hoosier physicians named to America’s Top Doctors for Cancer list are from the IU School of Medicine. In December, the school will host a summit for Indiana institutions, companies and individuals with a common interest in cancer research, diagnosis and treatment.