After graduating with her M.A., Elissa Day is heading home to London before starting Harvard’s Ancient Near Eastern Studies Ph.D. program with a sub-field in Egyptology this fall. There, she will join three other IU alumni in the same program.
The Integrated Program for the Environment (IPE) awarded grants to 15 students, ranging from freshman to Ph.D. candidates, for research projects focused on the environment and sustainability.
Dr. Vanessa Cruz Nichols, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, was recently awarded a 2023-2024 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.
The College of Arts and Sciences is thrilled to present our 2023 list of amazing young alumni who made the 20 Under 40 list.
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.
Logan Williams (’24), a rising senior double majoring in Political Science and Psychological and Brain Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, is one of 20 students nationwide that has been selected as a Key into Public Service Scholar by The Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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.
The Michael Henry Heim Chair in Central and East European Letters was created and endowed by Priscilla Heim in honor of her late husband, an eminent literary scholar, translator, and teacher.
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.
Muna Adem and Gayatri Thiru will speak at Friday and Saturday's graduation ceremonies. Adem is earning her doctorate in Sociology and Thiru is double majoring in neuroscience in the College and finance in the Kelley School of Business.
Two faculty members in the College have won the 2023 Provost Professor award and another has won the Mary Burgan Distinguished Service Award.
Jurnee Bridgewater (B.A. ’23) reflects on a capstone course that takes students into the classrooms of Head Start preschools throughout Bloomington. While she was there, she worked on developmental goals with the children and conducted her own case study of one child.
Ayla graduated in May 2021 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from the College of Arts and Sciences. She served as a Kovener Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences Kovener Teaching Fellows Program. In 2021, Ayla was the recipient of a Kate Hevner Mueller Award.
The College of Arts and Sciences congratulates graduate students who have received prestigious fellowships in support of their research. Each has been chosen from among the top students in their programs by committees of faculty. Graduate student research is what makes the College of Arts and Sciences the heart of our world-class university, pushing the boundaries of research in their fields.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mathematics Ph.D. candidate Mark Ronnenberg reflects on his internship in NASA’s Space Communication and Navigation Internship Program. He completed a project titled "Mathematics of the solar system internet" which focused on the development of an autonomous, robust space communications system.
Four IU Media School students who cover a variety of athletics for the university were recently recognized for their broadcasting work. Austin Platt, Jack Edwards, Hayden Smith, and Ben Haller were recognized by the Sportscasters Talent Agency of America in their 2022 Calls of the Year.
Andres Ayala (Spanish B.A. and International Studies B.A. ’21) was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant award and has been teaching English in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico.
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.
Rachel Baylor ('24) is building a customized foundation for her future in the College as a double major in history and folklore & ethnomusicology, and is preparing to attend graduate school for curatorship in order to pursue a museum career.
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.
Emily Stranger prepares U.S. soldiers for missions in the Middle East, Central Asia, and many other areas of the world. As a regional expertise and cultural instructor at the United States Department of Defense, she offers soldiers cultural instruction in the regions they are focused on.
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.
Keely Mahoney ('23) chose to minor in medical humanities to better prep for her long-term goal of becoming a physical therapist.
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.
Grace Gott wants to spread the word about issues facing Indigenous people. Gott, an Indiana University student in the Hamilton Lugar School, is on track to complete the accelerated International Studies integrated B.A./M.A. program with a minor in Southeast Asian Studies in December 2023.
A team of IU Media School faculty and staff teamed up with machinists from the psychology department to adapt camera equipment for senior Josh Fugate, a student studying sports media who is a quadriplegic.
A senior in the Eskenazi School merchandising program, Schmahl was one of five college students in the nation to have reached the final round of the National Retail Federation (NRF) Foundation Next Generation Scholarship competition.
February 23 and 24, industry leading College alumni return to campus to meet and network with students.
From Jonesboro, Arkansas, Chutavion Walker knew he wanted to study out of state and the draw of the College’s Human Biology Program was what sold this future doctor on IU.
Professor David Giedroc and team in the Department of Chemistry have discovered a key to understanding bacterial defense strategies during infections.
Adhitya Balaji ('23) is double majoring in molecular life sciences and neuroscience, minoring in economics, and is designing his future as an undergrad to prepare him for the rigors of medical school. As an EMT for multiple IU Health organizations and co-president of IC-EMS, Adhitya is finding healthcare opportunities everywhere in the College and at IU.
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.
Kara Davis (B.S. ’23), is a human biology major, emphasis on the human. Her studies in the College and School of Public Health have nurtured her interest in people-first healthcare and led her to prepare for a career as a physician's assistant.
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.
