Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Amanda Diekman found that guided written reflection improved students’ attitudes and feelings of belonging in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Now, her team works with faculty at IU and other universities to implement this style of reflection in the classroom.
The invention of stannous fluoride toothpaste marked a turning point in oral health and became a point of pride for IU. Nearly 70 years after IU chemistry and dentistry researchers pioneered the formula that led to the development of Crest toothpaste, the Department of Chemistry was honored with a National Historic Chemical Landmark designation from the American Chemical Society on April 4.
In collaboration with the IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering in Bloomington, Ph.D. student Liz Aguilar and associate professor Kim Rosvall of the IU College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology are calling upon “community scientists” across the country to submit information on bird behavior through SolarBird, a smartphone app the team will be launching to assist in their research project.
It’s a difficult time to study birds. Their numbers are down, their habitat is changing, and their prey are disappearing as heat waves grow more common and more intense. Yet, Associate Professor of Biology Kim Rosvall and alumna Mary Woodruff have identified a bird that seems to be handling some of these challenges surprisingly well. Their multi-year studies of the tree swallow demonstrate that these birds can employ behavioral and physiological mechanisms to handle the heat.
In Professor Marco Arnaudo's course Military Leadership--From Battle Field to Peace Time, students of all majors have been given the opportunity to develop sophisticated theories and practices of leadership through not just readings, but interactive games, as well. Skills the students learn in the course can be applied in business, politics, management, and any other kind of situation where leadership is required.
On Saturday, March 2nd, from 2 to 5 PM, the Graduate AI Expo will take over the Gayle Karch Cook Center in Maxwell Hall. Sponsored by the Indiana University Arts and Humanities AI+Digital Futures Team, in partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences, this event is open to the IU community.
As a guest of Indiana University’s Gamma chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Talitha Washington, director of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Data Science Initiative and professor of mathematics at Clark Atlanta University, will give a public talk on Monday, February 26th.
Artificial intelligence has permeated nearly every aspect of our daily lives, and dating is no exception. A study by Match in partnership with researchers in the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University found that American singles are starting to use chatbots to spruce up their dating profiles.
Each Monday and Wednesday morning this past fall, more than 100 students from across the College of Arts and Sciences gathered in Ballantine Hall on the Indiana University Bloomington campus for a unique and engaging course, "Critical Approaches to the ARts and Humanities: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Roots of Modern Fantasy."
John Ciorciari, professor of public policy at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, has been named dean of the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, effective March 1, 2024.
Thirty million years ago, the landscapes of northern Africa underwent a transformation. Dense, leafy canopies yilded to grassy savannas due to droughts, temperature fluctuations, and a decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide. As the environment changed, so did the animals that called it home.
Indiana University neuroscientists have found the first evidence that rodents can call upon their episodic memory. This breakthrough in neuroscience research could potentially lead to advancements in the development of therapies that specifically target episodic memory loss for Alzheimer’s disease patients.
Students in the Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International studies are advising experts in the U.S. State Department on how best to prepare for new types of hybrid threats, specifically in Europe.
Since 2018 through the present, the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington has awarded more than $331 million in research grants—a third of a billion dollars—advancing innovation and discovery across myriad academic fields and commercial industries, providing students unparalleled research and career opportunities, and enriching students’ classroom experience.
During the fall semester, Founding Dean and Professor of the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design Peg Faimon assumed volunteer leadership roles in two national organizations for the fine arts in higher education.
A new mural was unveiled in the alley next to WonderLab, funded in part by the new Center for Single-Entity Nanochemistry and Nanocrystal Design, over the weekend. Focused on science education and outreach, especially for children, this mural features a child looking through a microscope at a leaf. The mural artist is Erin Tobey.
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A research team that includes Edward Herrmann, a senior research scientist and geoarchaeologist within the College's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, recently discovered evidence of an agricultural system dating back more than 1,000 years at the Angel Mounds State Historic Site.
Indiana University is investing in new leaders and initiatives in arts, humanities and culture. At a time of accelerating change in and around arts and humanities, the university will expand institutional support, create stronger connections between its hallmark strengths, and drive expanded cultural engagement with local communities across the state and beyond.
Tucked behind IU Health Bloomington Hospital, the Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility provides care to a very different type of patient: the 4.2 million books, documents, and records in the library’s collections.
University Collections at McCalla School launches a retrospective exhibition of the innovative and heterogeneous oeuvre of Eskenazi alumnus (B.A. '61, M.F.A. '65) and former faculty member Don Gene Bell with a reception Thursday, November 9, from 5 to 7 pm.
Thanks to a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute grant, Dr. Suzanne Godby Ingalsbe, associate director of the Institute for Advanced Study, and Dr. Maria Hamilton Abegunde, assistant professor in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, can bring 25 faculty members from around the country to work on the topic of engaging trauma and controversy in research collections.
Each year, the College of Arts and Sciences selects several alumni to receive two distinct awards: the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Outstanding Young Alumni Award. This year’s honorees exemplify the breadth and depth of a liberal arts education and the many paths to success that it promises.
The international Advances in Econometrics (AiE) Conference and Festschrift in honor of Joon Park, to be held September 29-30, will welcome Lars Hansen, the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and currently the David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics, and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
In a rapidly changing climate, the newly launched Midwest Center for Biodiversity, within the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, will be the first center dedicated to studying why the Midwest is losing biodiversity. The center will recommend solutions in conservation practice and policy, and increase awareness of the urgent response needed to stop this loss.
A new NEOARM Transmission Electron Microscope will enable researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington and partners in the region to examine materials used in the making of plastics, metals, fuels, and even quantum matter at single-atom resolution.
The psychology program within the College of Arts and Sciences and the Kelley School of Business at IU Bloomington are among the nation's top undergraduate programs, according to the U.S. News and World Report’s Best Colleges rankings unveiled Monday.
“Design Your Life and Career” is an eight-week course, offered in 7 sections twice per semester by the College of Arts and Sciences Walter Center for Career Achievement at IU Bloomington. Approximately 700 students engage in the course each semester, which is open to students in any year of study.
The Walter Center for Career Achievement in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington has been awarded a grant from the IU Student Government, with additional support from two of the IU Foundation’s Affinity Giving programs, that has enabled the Center to install a self-service digital photo booth that all members of the IU Bloomington community—students, faculty, staff, and even alumni—to obtain free, high-quality, professional portraits.
Professor Tatiana Saburova led a group of 10 students on an 10 day study tour of Berlin, Germany, to serve as the companion course to her HIST-D 312: Histories of the Cold War.
Within a month of the Russian invasion in February 2022, about one-quarter of Ukraine’s population had fled the country, leading the military to request IU to create a Ukrainian phrase book in order to bridge the language barrier between members of the U.S. military and Ukrainian military partners.
An op-ed by Executive Dean Rick Van Kooten explains why colleges of arts and sciences are the beating hearts of many universities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
February 23 and 24, industry leading College alumni return to campus to meet and network with students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
