Arts + Sciences News

Research spotlight: Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

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.

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New leaders, initiatives to catalyze arts and humanities research, creative activities across IU

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.

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How IU Libraries Preserves its Collections

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.

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"These 'Things' I Call Art" showcases Eskenazi alumnus and faculty Don Gene Bell

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.

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National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute grant

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.

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IU College of Arts and Sciences to host its annual alumni awards celebration

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.

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Nobel Laureate Hansen visits College for Festschrift Conference in honor of Joon Park

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.

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Midwest Center for Biodiversity at IU launched at Kent Farm

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.

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New advanced electron microscope enables atomic-level discovery of novel energy-efficient materials

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.

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Psychology program in the College of Arts + Sciences ranks high in U.S. News and World Report

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.

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Courses, coaches help students design meaningful career pathways

“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.

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Get Ready for Your Close-Up: Walter Center for Career Achievement awarded grant to provide IU students, faculty, staff and alumni free professional portraits

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.

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The Cold War in Berlin: Building Global Perspectives through ASPIRE Study Abroad Tour

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.

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IU bridges language barrier between US military and Ukraine

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.

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With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

An op-ed by Executive Dean Rick Van Kooten explains why colleges of arts and sciences are the beating hearts of many universities.

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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.

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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.

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“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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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