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Campuses festooned for the winter season soon will give way to the end of the autumn semester. We at the IU Home Pages extend season’s greetings to our readers. Join us for our first edition of 2009 on Jan. 16.
Today's Feature
Sanders and Madison
We can’t provide you with a burning Yule log or a cup of cheer, but as the year draws to an end, we bring you a cyber fireside chat as two of IU’s venerable scholars and storytellers discuss the world, its fortunes and predicaments, and the art of writing: join Scott Russell Sanders, Distinguished Professor of English, and Jim Madison, the Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of history, in this audiostream produced by Byron K. Smith. Sanders will be awarded the 2009 Mark Twain Award from the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature in May.
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- Poynter research ethics workshop in May
- Dream in darkness Dec. 12-13
To life!
Construction of Harper Hall will bring expanded medical and cancer research opportunities to both Notre Dame and the IU School of Medicine-South Bend and a collaboration among government, business and academic entities, including IUSM-Terre Haute, has been organized as an aggressive response to current and anticipated health-care worker shortages in Vigo County and surrounding rural communities.Winter commencement
Nearly 1,760 undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to accept their degrees at a ceremony Dec. 20 at Assembly Hall in Bloomington. Two distinguished scholars with IU ties also will be honored.
Gifts of the season
An IU alumnus and his wife are expressing gratitude with a $35 million gift that will energize the scholarship opportunities of students at his newly named alma mater: the Michael Maurer School of Law at IU Bloomington.
New institute
A $15 million grant from the Lilly Endowment will empower the creation of IU’s Pervasive Technology Institute. With facilities at IUPUI and Bloomington, the institute is scheduled to be the first tenant of the IU Bloomington Incubator, due to open in July, and will continue IU’s historic stature in information technology in transforming scientific progress.Mapping
Neuroscientists at the IU School of Medicine have created the first comprehensive map of genes likely to be involved in bipolar disorder, which affects nearly 2.3 million Americans.
Investing in philanthropy
A new study from the Center for Philanthropy reveals important trends in million-dollar charitable gift-givers who are “self-made.” Researchers hypothesize that donors of self-made wealth tend to have the background in management and organization as well as expectations for projects that establish them as societal “investors.”Happy anniversary, Groups
In today’s Flashback column, writer George Vlahakis takes a look at the history of the IU Groups program, which celebrated its 40th year during homecoming weekend in Bloomington
