Bloomington Creative Glass Center Director Abby Gitlitz spends her days around 2,000 degrees of hot glass, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
Dusk brushes over the town. Cicadas drone. The two missionaries see her approaching on the Third Street sidewalk. She stands straighter in her sleeveless, thigh-length black dress and looks ahead, careful not to make eye contact. But it’s too late.
Fifteen-time Grammy winning banjoist Béla Fleck will take the stage at 8 p.m. at the IU Auditorium playing Solos and Duos. Fellow banjoist Abigail Washburn will join Fleck during his performance.
After 20 years, Lee Williams, who has been executive director of the Lotus Foundation since its inception, will step down from the position in January. Sunni Fass, an IU graduate involved with Lotus in the past, will fill the spot.
As the founder of Press Puzzles, Marc Tschida specializes in making specialized Bloomington-themed wooden jigsaw puzzles. They are based around the Bloomington’s performing arts, visual arts and iconic views.
Bloomington owns 12 of the 65 acres of the Certified Technology Park in the downtown area, which will be integrated into the fabric of downtown.CTPs are created as a tool to support the growth of high-technology business and to promote technology transfer opportunities.
A Bloomington man is charged with criminal recklessness after his firearm discharged in his apartment, with the bullet traveling into an adjoining apartment, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Joe Crider said.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued 36 violations of unsafe or unhealthy working conditions to Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane’s Army Ammunition Activity, OSHA announced Monday.
Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz filed a lawsuit against the State Board of Education Oct. 22.On Oct. 25, members of the board Troy Albert, David Freitas, Sarah O’Brien and Tony Walker issued a letter to Superintendent Ritz asking she call off the lawsuit. They said no such secret meeting took place and that Ritz is failing to respect the board’s authority.
Senior Rahaf Safi has been selected to serve as President Michael McRobbie’s fifth presidential intern, serving in the Office of the President for the rest of the academic year.
The ancestral link between modern humans and Neanderthals remains unknown, according to a recent IU study.
Almost half the users received the alert as a text message, which read, “IU Bloomington Alert! An armed individual is at large on the BL campus. Take safe shelter. Lock door. Follow instruction from authorities.”
The decision to remove the signs was an effort to balance varied community interests and input, according to a statement from Mayor Mark Kruzan’s office.
Garvin is the only scientific glassblower serving IU and its satellite campuses. He has spent the last 27 years working with graduate students and researchers in the chemistry, biology, geology and psychology departments.
Freedom Indiana campaign leaders stated in a press release that having the state’s largest university as a part of the coalition will strengthen the force of their message to lawmakers, who will consider HJR6 during the upcoming legislative session.
I dislike our school’s language requirement for one simple reason: I dabble in languages. I don’t study them.
So I took a week off. A week off all social media — a week with absolutely no Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, or even Vine, just so I could pause and think about what it was actually doing to my life.
Guns should not be as easily purchased at a store as a pair of shoes.
Besides Culture of Care, which has been IUSA’s signature achievement — inherited from two years ago — the current administration has little else to show for its time in office.
Diane Hanks, former assistant principal at Tri-North Middle School, has a new role as Talent and Diversity Specialist for the Monroe County Community School Corporation.
