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.
