Hoosier traditions
IU professor of history and philosophy of science Jim Capshew has made IU traditions not just a part of his life, but a part of his career.
IU professor of history and philosophy of science Jim Capshew has made IU traditions not just a part of his life, but a part of his career.
Despite the many changes IU has undergone since the 1900s, one thing has maintained a constant presence at a campus consistently voted one of the prettiest in the nation: the limestone.
You have probably heard of these people, but did you know they graduated from IU?
The entrance to the IU Art Museum, located on Seventh Street, is swallowed by the museum’s walls, while a 70-foot-tall light tower and a 21-foot-tall circular red statue stand guard out front.
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction serves as a source for accurate information for both research and personal health.
Union Board is the leading student programming organization at IU. Three executive team members and a group of committee directors work to plan activities for the Indiana Memorial Union and the campus, including concerts, lectures and debates.
In 1913, Elisabeth Sage, the first IU professor of clothing and textiles, started a private fashion collection for teaching and classroom activities. After retirement in 1937, she donated her collection to IU and planted the first seeds of the Elisabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection.
On Oct. 12, 2009, Ostrom became the first female recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics, a career many advised her not to pursue.
From 1938 until 1962, Herman B Wells was University president. During that time IU expanded to include the streets, buildings and population that make it what it is today.
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Attempts to define “Hoosier” date back as far as 1831, when its first known usage came in a letter written by Cincinnati’s G.S. Murdock, according to the Indiana Magazine of History.
The mood at the College Republicans meeting the Monday after the House of Representatives sent the Senate version of the health care bill to President Obama’s desk was comparable to the frustration and disillusionment liberals often felt when George W. Bush was in the White House.
Normally I don’t like to get involved in national politics. Mostly because I’m always right and people don’t seem to understand why.
So, will the lack of ability to patent human genes drop the bottom out of the biotech industry? I doubt it.
WE SAY Inherently discriminatory traditions have no place within civil society.
In a ruling with potentially far-reaching implications for the patenting of human genes, a judge on Monday struck down a company’s patents on two genes linked to an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
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Somewhere on the west coast of Florida tonight, the Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay sleeps.