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Art inside and out: Explore the IU Art Museum

By Alex Hippenhammer · Friday, Aug. 24,2012 11:21 a.m.

This is the IU Art Museum, and with a surprising collection of some of the world’s greatest art right in the middle of campus, it’s a great way to spend a day. The art starts before visitors even enter the building.

The legacy of Marcellus Neal and Frances Marshall

By Shannon Ireland · Friday, Aug. 24,2012 11:16 a.m.

Indiana University is the alma mater of many iconic and influential students. But two of the most important people to walk this campus left their legacy a century ago. Indiana removed a prohibition from its Constitution in the 1870s, allowing African Americans the right to an education. Not long after, they began to attend college. Marcellus Neal and Frances Marshall were the first African Americans to receive a degree from IU.

Let's talk about sex

By Raven Carpenter · Friday, Aug. 24,2012 11:12 a.m.

Sex is usually a pretty taboo subject, but at IU’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, the bedroom is their business.

The legacy of Herman B Wells

By Michael Auslen · Friday, Aug. 24,2012 11:11 a.m.

Before Herman B Wells took charge of IU, the University was just a small Midwestern college with 11,000 students. By the time he died in 2000, it had become a world-renowned institution with more than 90,000 students on eight campuses. “He put Indiana University on the map.”