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IU professors discover robust link between meat production and zoonotic disease outbreaks in Asia
In the face of growing demand for meat-based diets across the globe, new research conducted by three professors within the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington has uncover... Read more about IU professors discover robust link between meat production and zoonotic disease outbreaks in Asia
IU’s Center for Religion and the Human receives $750,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation
The Center for Religion and the Human, a research center in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, has received a $750,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to suppo... Read more about IU’s Center for Religion and the Human receives $750,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation
Research spearheaded by four biologists within the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington has uncovered a new regulatory mechanism shared by many bacteria, which may have pr... Read more about In new study, IU biologists and collaborators discover a novel regulatory mechanism shared by bacteria that may spur advances in human, animal and plant health
Without Edgar Allan Poe we would not have the mass media landscape we have today, according to a new book by Jonathan Elmer, Professor in the Department of English within the College of Arts and Sc... Read more about Today’s mass media landscape would not exist without Edgar Allan Poe, according to new book by IU Professor Jonathan Elmer
National Academy of Medicine elects Bernice Pescosolido to governing and oversight body
Nationally recognized sociologist and Indiana University faculty member Bernice Pescosolido has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine Council. Pescosolido, the founding director of... Read more about National Academy of Medicine elects Bernice Pescosolido to governing and oversight body
Joseph Z. Johnson, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, and K. Ermelinda García, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History — both within the College of Arts and... Read more about IU Bloomington Ph.D. candidates awarded prestigious Mellon/ALCS fellowships for dissertation innovation
College of Arts and Sciences faculty awarded IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellowships
Six members of the faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington have been selected as 2024 IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellows; across IU, the Office of the... Read more about College of Arts and Sciences faculty awarded IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellowships
In 2004, a pair of economists published a landmark study to measure discrimination in the labor market. In the study, the researchers applied to real job openings with fictitious applicants but cha... Read more about IU Prof. Chavez: Hiring pressures to diversify influencing patterns of discrimination in unexpected ways
IU Chemistry Professor J.P. Gerdt named Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, awarded $100,000 research grant
J.P. Gerdt, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry within the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, has been selected as a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar... Read more about IU Chemistry Professor J.P. Gerdt named Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, awarded $100,000 research grant
In two years of being online, 7,000 people from 89 countries have accessed Professor Chen Zhu’s public database of thermodynamic properties of rare-earth and other critical minerals; the Earth an... Read more about IU researchers’ data, campus collaborations, build better geochemical models in pursuit of efficient, safe extraction of rare earth elements