College faculty honored with IU Trustees Teaching Award
The Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award was established to honor individuals who have a positive impact on learning through the direct teaching of students, especially undergraduates.
Arts + Sciences News
Connection through biking culture: Experiencing Taiwan in Bloomington through the ‘Cycling Taiwan’ event series
As part of the annual event series put on by the Hamilton Lugar School’s East Asian Languages and Cultures department, the College invited the public to participate in ‘Cycling Taiwan 2023: A bicycle tour of Taiwan, in Bloomington’ on April 16th. This event highlighted the shared biking culture seen within both the Taiwanese and Bloomington community and offered an engaging, interactive tour.
“We’ve got something special here:” A profile on IU’s Center for Spacetime Symmetry
The IU Center for Spacetime Symmetry is challenging Einstein’s theory of relativity. The Center lives on the cutting edge of physics and is developing the future of physics education.
Biology department course builds partnerships between students and local environmental organizations
Fall 2023 will bring the 8th edition of Dr. Heather Reynolds’ course: Biodiverse-City! The Art & Science of Green Infrastructure. Students in the course will learn about human/ecosystem interactions in urban areas and work with one of seven Bloomington partners to make the city more sustainable.
Ukraine: A year of support in the face of Russia’s war
In the year since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Indiana University students, faculty, staff and alumni have mobilized to help Ukrainian scholars, educate others about the war and support Ukrainian students.
Mellon Foundation awards Indiana University Bloomington a $225,000 grant for Sawyer Seminar
IU Bloomington has been awarded a $225,000 Mellon Foundation grant to host a year-long Sawyer Seminar, to be led by Pedro Machado and Olimpia Rosenthal in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Connect Conference provides students opportunities to network with, pitch College alumni industry leaders
February 23 and 24, industry leading College alumni return to campus to meet and network with students.
A historic opportunity
This May, undergraduate and graduate students have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join students from Serbia in a program providing new channels of thinking about how to commemorate historical events and heritage sites.
African American and African Diaspora Studies stands out among national peers, builds community, with teaching, research, and student experience offerings
AAADS offers degrees “from the bachelor’s to the Ph.D.,” and provides students a rich array of programmatic opportunities and myriad topics for study, research, and creative activity with a mission to create and share scholarship of the highest quality, considering the many dimensions of the African American and African diasporic experience.
College of Arts + Sciences to hire cohort of tenured- and tenure-track faculty through IU’s Faculty 100 initiative
IU Provost and Executive Vice President Rahul Shrivastav has announced the approval of funding and recruitment for the initial round of IUB’s Faculty 100 hiring initiative, and of the 75 proposals received thus far, 29 proposals have been selected for phase-one funding, with more than half of these clustered in the College of Arts and Sciences.
See what’s cooking: IU’s Food Institute offers curricular, career, and community opportunities
The mission of the IU Food Institute is to promote innovative research, education, and public outreach with multidisciplinary approaches to food, and to foodways—in social science, foodways are the cultural, social, and economic practices of the production and the consumption of food.
IU Bloomington ranks highly among Best Global Universities
The IU Bloomington campus ranks 25th worldwide and 16th nationally in the economics and business category, thanks to both the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Economics and the Kelley School of Business. In that category, IU Bloomington is the third-highest-ranked U.S. public university.
PACE program prepares students to engage in politics and public life
Any IU Bloomington undergraduate, whatever their major, can participate in PACE, which offers a 22 credit hour undergraduate certificate program along with real-world projects and hands-on learning, from nonpartisan voter registration, to encouraging civil dialogue on campus and beyond, to learning facilitation and advocacy skills.
Welcome to the compassionate classroom
Working hand in hand, a group of faculty and students in the College known as the Kovener Fellows are designing new strategies to make classrooms more welcoming and supportive for all students.