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(12/17/20 12:02am)
The IU administration announced wellness days would be added to the spring semester to give students an additional three days off throughout the spring, in a Dec. 4 email to students and parents.
(12/04/20 8:16pm)
IU Provost Lauren Robel announced in an email Friday IU has added three wellness days to the spring semester. Classes will not be held on Feb. 16, March 24 and April 22, according to the email.
(11/18/20 1:30pm)
On Tuesday, the coldest night Bloomington had seen in weeks, about 10 spectators gathered at the driveway in front of the Biddle Hotel to witness the 60-foot-tall lights shaped like a candle be lit for the holiday season. Although many things on campus have canceled this semester, the 52nd annual candle-lighting went on.
(11/05/20 10:15pm)
With the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting many student programs, especially those involving both regional and international travel, one program, the Diplomacy Lab, continues to grow and thrive.
(11/07/20 4:30pm)
Former Vice President Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States, the Associated Press projected Saturday morning. He defeated President Donald Trump as the country waited anxiously for days for the race to be called.
(10/30/20 1:47am)
While Election Day is still several days away, many states already have had thousands of ballots returned and counted ahead of time. In Indiana, more than one million ballots have already been returned by mail or given early in-person, according to the U.S. Elections Project. While hundreds of thousands of people will still turn out to the polls on Election Day, nationwide and state specific polls are already attempting to call the election.
(10/28/20 3:43pm)
Monroe County has extended the operating hours of its early voting location in the week leading up to the election, according to the Monroe County voters website.
(10/23/20 12:27am)
IU conducts weekly mitigation testing to determine COVID-19 positivity rates on campus, but some IU researchers are conducting a different study: an antibody test, which does not determine active infection. The researchers want to determine if the timeliness of these test results affect any behaviors adopted to limit the spread of COVID-19, such as wearing a mask or not attending social events.
(10/19/20 7:10pm)
U.S. News and World Report released its 2021 rankings of the best universities across the country, based on multiple factors and categories. Both IU-Bloomington and IU- Purdue University Indianapolis moved up in overall rankings, according to an IU press release.
(10/15/20 12:55am)
Eli Lilly, an Indiana-based drug manufacturing company, announced Tuesday it would be pausing its COVID-19 clinical trial, ACTIV-3, until further notice, according to a statement from the company. The recommendation to stop the trial came from the independent data safety monitoring board, which monitors the trials and cited safety concerns, according to the statement.
(10/15/20 6:09am)
With the 2020 presidential election less than a month away, the IU Observatory on Social Media developed a tool called BotSlayer to stop the spread of disinformation and false narratives.
(10/06/20 4:12am)
The Shalom Center announced Tuesday it renamed its umbrella organization and its social service programs “Beacon.” This new name applies to the major programs run by the Shalom Center in South Central Indiana, according to a press release.
(10/05/20 12:39am)
The IU Board of Trustees voted 8-1 Friday to rename the sites on IU-Bloomington’s campus honoring former IU president David Starr Jordan.
(05/01/20 1:16am)
Since the end of March, IU undergraduate and graduate linguistics researchers have been translating information about the coronavirus into Hakha Lai, a common language spoken by many from the Chin State of western Myanmar, IU assistant professor of linguistics Kelly Berkson said. The translations are available on the team’s website.
(04/28/20 10:17pm)
Faculty from IU and Purdue University’s business schools partnered with IU Health to develop models to predict how the surge of COVID-19 patients will affect the IU Health’s 16 hospitals across the Midwest, according to an IU press release.
(04/24/20 12:31am)
The City of Bloomington announced Wednesday it released money from the city’s Rapid Response Fund to seven businesses negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
(04/21/20 11:32pm)
This story was updated at 9:15 p.m. April 21.
(04/19/20 9:45pm)
The deadline to file the 2020-21 Free Application for Federal Student Aid is being extended by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, according to an Indiana Commission for Higher Education press release. There is no set deadline, but students who did not meet the original deadline are encouraged to file as soon as possible because limited funding is available on a first-come first-served basis.
(04/17/20 1:16am)
Since the application for Bloomington’s Rapid Response Fund opened last week, more than 36 businesses, organizations and nonprofits have completed it and another 138 are working on applications, city spokesperson Yaёl Ksander said Thursday.
(04/14/20 9:19pm)
Cook Medical Group announced Monday it will cut the hours of salaried workers for the next three months due to changes in demand for medical products, according to an email from communications manager Marsha Lovejoy.