Luke Nikolov, a professor in the Department of Biology, is working to understand plant development to such a detailed degree that it could lead to easier gene manipulation with specific benefits for humans, such as greater crop yields and increased biofuel production. Nikolov is the primary investigator for the Floral Development and Diversity Lab, which will include undergraduate and graduate students.
The College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington has named Ishan Ashutosh, an associate professor in the Department of Geography, and Asaad Alsaleh, an associate professor and chair of the Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures in the Hamilton-Lugar School of Global and International Studies, as the College’s 2023-24 Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) Faculty Fellows.
The College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington has hired more than 40 new tenure-track or tenured faculty, who will be starting either this fall or who joined the College last spring semester, in and across dozens of academic departments and disciplines, and who will contribute significantly to the College’s and IU Bloomington’s intellectual vitality while providing breadth and depth to the campus’ teaching mission and research enterprise.
A team of scientists comprised of Juergen Schieber, a Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, and colleagues on NASA’s Curiosity Rover mission, uncovered the first tangible evidence for sustained wet-dry cycling on early Mars.
Dr. Martin F. Jarrold and Dr. David E. Clemmer, from the Department of Chemistry, were featured in 'Chemical and Engineering News' magazine for developing the technology of charge detection mass spectrometry (CDMS).
The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) has named Israel Herrera-Cárdenas, a Teaching Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese within the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington (IUB), the winner of the 2023 AATSP Outstanding Service Award.
Dr. Vanessa Cruz Nichols, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, was recently awarded a 2023-2024 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Irene Newton and MaryAnn Martin’s research, currently in review, for the first time shows interactions between host proteins and those secreted by Wolbachia: a genus of bacteria that’s being used to control the spread of Dengue.
Chen Zhu, a globally recognized geologist and professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, will join the University of Cambridge as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor.
William Scheuerman, the James H. Rudy Professor in the Department of Political Science within the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a Distinguished Fellowship at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Sciences.
The College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington has awarded three of its faculty members the Distinguished Mentor Award, which was established to formally recognize and encourage innovative and student-centered advising and training of undergraduate and graduate students.
Two faculty members in the College have won the 2023 Provost Professor award and another has won the Mary Burgan Distinguished Service Award.
IU researchers are part of a trans-disciplinary team that has been awarded a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to create more sustainable and equitable food systems in the Midwest and beyond.
A new book by Robert Schneider, The Return of Resentment The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion, explores the term “resentment” to explain political and social movements going back several centuries, while probing the term’s evolving meaning.
Rebecca Lave, a professor in the Department of Geography within the College of Arts and Sciences at IU, has been elected president of the American Association of Geographers, a global network of more than 9,500 researchers, educators, and practitioners.
Curtis M. Lively, a Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Science's Department of Biology, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Alex Lichtenstein, from the Department of History and American Studies, and his collaborators to create Unmasked, an art installation focused on “reimagining two historic exhibitions of anti-lynching art held in 1935.”
Race, Sex, and Segregation in Colonial Latin America, written by Olimpia Rosenthal in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, follows the development and evolution of segregationist policies in Spanish and Portuguese America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The College’s Department of French and Italian (FRIT) put on the Mélodie event series—a four-part interdisciplinary workshop exploring 19th century French art song.
Caroline Covey’s fellowship with Girl Security inspired her goal of a career in the nuclear non-proliferation field. The opportunity has given her the chance to explore opportunities within the field, engage in research, connect with experts, and secure two highly selective summer internships.
Catherine Pilachowski, Distinguished Professor of Astronomy and the Daniel Kirkwood Chair in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences, explains what will happen during the 2024 eclipse.
In her recently published book, Hamilton Lugar School Professor of International Studies Stephanie Kane explores the issue of climate change via river-city flooding and pushes her readers to think outside the box when seeking solutions to the climate crisis.
The North American Academy of the Spanish Language (La Academia Norteamericana de La Lengua Española, ANLE) has selected Teaching Professor Israel Herrera-Cárdenas, a Teaching Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese within the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington (IUB), to be a member.
Dr. Emily Fyfe, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences, was named a winner of the 2023 Association for Psychological Science Janet Taylor Spence Award for excellence in early-career research.
Professor of Sociology Fabio Rojas on being cut from the Advance Placement African American Studies course, and what the implications of these cuts would be for students who wanted to take this course.
Dr. Fritz Breithaupt's book, "Das narrative Gehirn: Was unsere Neuronen erzählen" (The Narrative Brain: What Our Neurons Tell Us) won the Science Book of the Year Award for 2023 from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. The book speaks to much of Dr. Breithaupt’s work in the Experimental Humanities Laboratory, a group of students and professionals that he established at IU.
Professor David Giedroc and team in the Department of Chemistry have discovered a key to understanding bacterial defense strategies during infections.
A short film covering research on the world’s brightest optical materials, SMILES, from Professors Amar Flood and Krishnan Raghavachari, adjunct faculty Sudhakar Pamidighantam, and collaborator Professor Bo Laursen at the University of Copenhagen is being featured at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting.
The science outreach efforts of Armin Moczek, a professor in the College’s Department of Biology in Bloomington, will be honored this week at the 2022 National Association of Biology Teachers Professional Development Conference in Indianapolis. Moczek will receive the organization's Evolution Education Award for his innovative teaching and community education efforts in the promotion of the accurate understanding of biological evolution.
A new report from Indiana University sociologist Jessica Calarco and Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Anderson sheds light on why the rate of COVID-19 vaccination among U.S. children is far lower than the rate of vaccination among adults.
The Biden administration announced in mid-December the creation of an interagency working group to develop “a national strategy to combat antisemitism.” To succeed, however, the working group must first answer a basic question: What is anti-Semitism? Professor Alvin Rosenfeld published this opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on January 8, 2023.
The National Science Foundation and its internationally funded Binational Science Foundation have awarded a grant to Julia van Kessel, an associate professor in Biology, and her colleagues in IU’s new coral facility to study the coral reef ecosystem.
On the evening of December 12, College of Arts and Sciences faculty, staff, and guests gathered in the Cook Center for Public Arts and Humanities in Maxwell Hall, on the Indiana University Bloomington campus, to celebrate the more than 150 College faculty authors who have published over 170 books since 2020.
Catherine Pilachowski, Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at IU, in collaboration with Research Technologies, has been working with the university’s advanced technology to answer questions about the Southern Bulge—more familiarly known as the Milky Way—and its quarter of a billion surrounding stars.
Jay T. Lennon, a professor in the College's Department of Biology, is a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Those selected for this esteemed award are required to be internationally recognized for their academic achievements which have been proven by corresponding successes in research, and show promise of continuing their outstanding research into the future.
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Martin Jarrold was awarded the 2022 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Mass Spectrometry. The Eastern Analytical Symposium celebrates analytical chemists whose work have helped shape their field. Jarrold’s research in charge detection mass spectrometry (CDMS) has been essential in the development of virus assembly and gene therapy analysis.
A new study by Indiana University researchers has found that about 45% of patients who visit the emergency department for physical injuries and ailments also have mental health and substance use problems that are often overlooked. It also found that patients who reported high levels of suicidal thinking and plans were more likely to have frequent emergency department visits.
The team of Julia van Kessel, an associate professor in the Department of Biology, and Laura Brown, a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, both of the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, was chosen as 1st-place winner of the inaugural IU Idea to Startup Pitch Competition.
