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It was a time when very few women had faculty positions at IU. A time when there was no childcare system on campus, no policy to deal with maternity leave and no domestic abuse or rape shelter in Bloomington. It was a time of isolation —but it was also a time of action.
University housing policies can contribute to the isolation and self-segregation of international students on campus, placing students with the same background in close quarters.
Alternative class settings are increasing in both demand and execution — from mild integration, such as the incorporation of interactive blogs — to complete upheaval of the traditional classroom.
Check out a list of recent book titles written by members of IU faculty.
As parents said goodbye, students began to settle into their new homes in the residence halls.
Baumann, the curator of Collections at the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archeology, described this as his passion — getting to know ancient people.
Long-held beliefs about Thomas Jefferson’s dream home, Monticello, in Virginia have been revamped thanks to an IU team that spent spring break conducting field research on the plantation.
Josh Stewart dreams of going to South Africa and researching the current sardine migration; he hopes to help save the leatherback turtle in Indonesia; and he aspires to film thought-provoking documentaries about environmental conservation. But his dreams are different than most because his are now a reality. About to become IU’s first marine biology graduate, Stewart, a senior was recently named the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society’s 2010 North American Rolex Scholar, an honor given to one student a year. Scholars are also chosen from Europe and Australia.
Melanie Baird hated math in high school, but not for the reasons most people do. For her, math was just too easy.
Stephen Selka is one of the many professors at IU who routinely commutes to campus. Selka remains in Bloomington until Thursday night. During the week, he rents a room in a friend’s house, and on the weekends he returns home to his wife, who is a professor at the University of Chicago.
Marcus Moir did all he could to yank his children away from the television screen and get them behind the massive telescope at the observatory on Kirkwood on Wednesday night. His efforts failed, but that did not stop Moir from gazing into the sky at Mars himself.
Bennett Bertenthal’s surprise resignation from the position of dean of the College of Arts and Sciences on Tuesday left many questions unanswered. Bertenthal will step down Friday at the request of University administrators, just days after announcing he will leave the post.
IU’s Kelley School of Business moved up one place to 19th in Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine’s most recent rankings of undergraduate business programs around the nation.
The various studies are being partially funded by $750 Kinsey Institute Student Research Grants, designed to support sex-related graduate research.
IU’s campus will become a guinea pig for a brand new networking Web site, CultureU, that will debut in September.
2010 is International Biodiversity Year for advocacy and education, but for IU professor Vicky Meretsky, every year is biodiversity year. “We hope this will give us an opportunity to reach out, an opportunity for educating,” Meretsky said. “The people who work in conservation can only do so much without expanding the number of people involved.”
Since its inception eight years ago, the camping course based on sustaining human activity has created quite a stir in Bloomington. It has inspired students to change majors, reverse career goals and even create an extension of the course, the Bloomington Permaculture Guild.
Part two of a series investigating the day care system at IU and in Bloomington.
When it comes to day care in Bloomington, three nationally accredited IU centers offer 165 spots for children ranging from birth to 5 years old. Two co-ops add an additional 18-20 spots. But the wait list to obtain one of these spots is more than 100-names long.
The IU Department of Biology received a technological face-lift during winter break, gaining three state-of-the-art laboratories worth $2 million.
