Entrepreneurship comes naturally to Dolly Meckler (B.A. '14), who majored in Telecommunications in the College. "I've always been a hustler," Meckler says. "In high school, I had an after-school job and also had a business where I made candy creations...When I got to Indiana University, I created and produced a webseries called Hello Dolly, which started as an IUSTV production and then turned into a larger Internet-based project."
After graduating with her M.A., Elissa Day is heading home to London before starting Harvard’s Ancient Near Eastern Studies Ph.D. program with a sub-field in Egyptology this fall. There, she will join three other IU alumni in the same program.
The College of Arts and Sciences is thrilled to present our 2023 list of amazing young alumni who made the 20 Under 40 list.
The Michael Henry Heim Chair in Central and East European Letters was created and endowed by Priscilla Heim in honor of her late husband, an eminent literary scholar, translator, and teacher.
Ayla graduated in May 2021 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from the College of Arts and Sciences. She served as a Kovener Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences Kovener Teaching Fellows Program. In 2021, Ayla was the recipient of a Kate Hevner Mueller Award.
Andres Ayala (Spanish B.A. and International Studies B.A. ’21) was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant award and has been teaching English in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Kiese Laymon (M.F.A. ’02) received the prestigious “genius grant” in recognition of “Bearing witness to the myriad forms of violence that mark the Black experience in formally inventive fiction and nonfiction”
College of Arts and Sciences alumnus Philip Dybvig (B.A. ’76), along with two prominent collaborators Ben S. Bernanke and Douglas W. Diamond, was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in economics. Dybvig and his colleagues laid the foundation for modern banking research in the early ’80s, and their analyses have been essential in the regulation of financial markets and handling then unprecedented financial crises.
A past president of J.Crew, a renowned sociologist, and a prominent dermatopathologist are among the recipients of the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences’ 2022 alumni awards. On Thursday, this year’s recipients returned to campus to meet with students, speak in classes, and take part in a panel discussion, which was attended by more than 200 alumni, students, and faculty.
