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The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, sponsored by IU Outdoor Adventures, is making a stop at 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater to showcase a collection of 15 environmental and adventure films.

For over a decade, members of the Full Frontal Comedy troupe having been exposing themselves to unsuspecting students. This weekend, they’re going to celebrate it.

Shelly Deckard has been avoiding campus all of her life.

Photographer John Bower finds Indiana’s history hidden in the abandoned farms and cemeteries lying along the road.

To create the paintings Abi Haidar said he uses homemade coffee that he brews very densely and allows to settle into a thick consistency that he is able to paint with. He then transfers the coffee to canvas directly with a spoon, applying multiple layers to create darker colors and texture.

The Indiana Memorial Union served as a meeting place for women, many of whom were professors from universities across the nation, as they discussed citizenship and the role of feminism in politics and academia. The topics came from around the globe during this weekend’s 14th-annual Cultural Studies Gender and Citizenship conference.

A picture can speak a thousand words, but sometimes it only needs to say a few. In light of Maine voters’ decision last week to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage, a group of IU students is looking to protest with photography.

With the number of bank failures in a year reaching the highest level since 1992, that shoebox under the bed may be looking like an increasingly better place to stash your cash.

The group NOH8 @ IU, along with OUT, will be staging a photo shoot today to rally support for marriage equality and showcase the IU student solidarity.

That’s why he decided to become a teacher at the CODA Academy, an after-school music program for kids in a high-poverty area in Bloomington, and at 10 p.m. Friday he and other members of the band The Buzzkills will be performing a charity show to help raise money for the program

Watkins, who will be playing at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, is currently on tour promoting her self-titled debut solo album and will be making a stop in Bloomington at 8 p.m. Friday.

The National Institutes of Health awarded $538,595 to the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at IU to look for ways to improve privacy in health research.

Under the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, the Indiana State Department of Agriculture received $382,302 to help support healthy eating and increase the production of specialty crops, which are defined as fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits and horticulture and nursery crops.

The Indianapolis Zoo has announced the 2010 nominees for its biennial animal conservation award. 

The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was listed as one of 25 parks most threatened by climate change in a report released earlier this month by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Many people can’t go a day without creating trash. Now some are trying to go a whole week. Beginning Sunday, participants in the No Impact Experiment will be cutting back on their use of energy, water, transportation and trash creation in an attempt to test how much they really need these “creature comforts.”