The Department of Chemistry's Professor Caroline Chick Jarrold is one of two newly elected fellows from IU who are at the forefront of scientific achievements in emerging technologies, environmental issues, and more.
In 2020, Colin Elliott found himself face-to-face with two pandemics. Like the rest of the world, the associate professor in the history department within the College endured rising COVID-19 cases, stay-at-home orders, and social distancing. But perhaps uniquely, he also pored over data, documents, and descriptions of a much older pandemic: the Antonine plague.
As Jack Rosswurm (M.A. ’24, European Studies) began looking at master’s programs, he found that IU was a unique academic home due to the depth and breadth of the programs available in three major Uralic languages. Born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Rosswurm worked his way through a B.A. in International Studies at IU in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.
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.
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Gill Chair in Biomolecular Sciences Richard DiMarchi will receive the 2024 Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award, presented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for his pioneering research that laid the foundation for drugs that are transforming the treatment of obesity worldwide.
Professor of Religious Studies Candy Gunther Brown has received a $40,000 award from the Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers, funded by the Lilly Endowment, to complete her latest book The Life of Francis MacNutt: Priest, Prophet, Patriarch.
Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Ben Kravitz has been selected to be a member of the International Commission on Climate (ICCL), one of the research-focused commissions that comprises the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, and which itself is part of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG.)
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.
Black Film Center & Archive Director and associate professor Novotny Lawrence discusses the portrayals of Black bodies, slavery, and plantations in Hollywood films in his article, “White mansions, black bodies: ‘Get Out’ and the New Age slave plantations.”
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.
In Constitutional Powers and Politics: How Citizens Think about Authority and Institutional Change, Associate Professor of Political Science Eileen Braman examines how the public thinks about government authority.
When you ask assistant professor Songhu Wang why he joined the College's Department of Astronomy in 2020, his answer is simple. “The fascination with space is an inherent aspect of human nature.” Wang immerses himself in the study of exoplanets opening a window to the vast diversity of planetary systems in the universe. This research not only challenges preconceptions but also reignites the age-old question that has fascinated humanity for centuries: Are we alone?
Entrepreneurship comes naturally to Dolly Meckler (B.A. '14), who majored in Telecommunications in the College. "I've always been a hustler," Meckler says. "In high school, I had an after-school job and also had a business where I made candy creations...When I got to Indiana University, I created and produced a webseries called Hello Dolly, which started as an IUSTV production and then turned into a larger Internet-based project."
The role of a critic today is widely thought of as a professional journalist or a scholar who analyzes and judges the value of a work of some kind, whether a book, movie, musical release, or museum exhibit, as examples. But a new book, Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins, by Michel Chaouli, professor of germanic studies in the College, argues that criticism begins the moment someone encounters something that moves them enough to share their experience with it.
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.
In her new book, The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn, Amrita Myers, the Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor in the Department of History within the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, recovers the compelling yet troubling story of Julia Chinn—an enslaved Black woman and wife to Richard Mentor Johnson, Vice President of the United States from 1837-41 under Martin Van Buren.
As a Biotechnology major with a minor in Law and Public Policy, Maya Nivarthi (B.S. ’24) has been determined to explore challenges and opportunities in the biotech field since she was a freshman.
The bones of early mammals reflect the diversity of ways they moved, but current locomotor categories do not. Anne Kort is working to change that. She visited Bloomington in December of 2023 to scan mammalian pelvic bones and will be back again, with or without a box of million-year-old bones in tow.
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.
In new research, Professor of Economics, Affiliate Professor of Law Dean Lueck, External Faculty Affiliate at the Ostrom Workshop Julio A. Ramos Pastrana, and Associate Professor of Economics Gustavo Torrens find that party affiliation not only affects voting on environmental issues among otherwise similar politicians and constituents, but it also affects interest groups’ contributions to politicians.
Allen D. and Polly S. Grimshaw Professor of Sociology Brea Perry and her team measured levels of depression and anxiety among four age demographics: 18 to 25, 26 to 44, 45 to 64, and 65 and older. Despite all age groups experiencing pandemic-related disruption, the study showed that 18- to 25-year-olds disproportionately experienced increases in anxiety and depression.
Biology Professor Stephen Bell has been awarded $2.8 million from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences to investigate the DNA folding machinery inside cells. DNA folding errors can cause a wide variety of diseases, including genetic disorders and certain types of cancer.
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.
Kyle Tucker, an IU Slavic Department and International Studies 2023 graduate, has been honored as a recipient of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, offered through the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission.
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.
Dylan Thurston, a Professor in the Department of Mathematics within the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, is the recipient of an inaugural Frontiers of Science Award, given for best-in-world recent research contributions in mathematics, physics, and computer science.
As a benchmark of unparalleled scholarship, research, and creative activity at a Research 1 (R1) university, in the past year 44 books have been published by 48 faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington.
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.
The Evening of Celebrations honored faculty who received awards during the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
“While touring schools throughout the Midwest and Northeast, I heard about the new program that the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies offered,” explained M.A. student Timothy McGowan, ’23.
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. As the mural continues, viewers will see various tiers of magnification on the leaf, all the way down to its nanoparticles.
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.
A love for music and public service have always been central to Joseph Z. Johnson’s life, and part of why he chose to pursue a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology with an emphasis on Public Practice and a minor in African American and African Diaspora Studies.
This past summer, Kate Kwan Tiu ('25) worked as an Eli Lilly and Company Talent Development Academy intern with the assistance of a Lawrence M. Blatt Biotechnology Internship Fund scholarship from the College’s Walter Center for Career Achievement. Her internship is a step toward a career that could include focusing on solutions for public health problems.
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.
“The POLS D.C. program is one of the best things I’ve done for my academic and professional career. Coming to Washington has taught me so many lessons about myself and the political world in which I plan on having a career. There is nothing like the experience of putting yourself into the political arena as a college student.”
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.
For devoting his life to the study of Jewish history and culture and teaching it to the next generation, Professor of English and the Irving M. Glazer Chair of Jewish Studies, Alvin Rosenfeld, has been added to The Algemeiner's "J100," honoring 100 people worldwide that positively influence Jewish life.
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.
This past summer Mickaela had the opportunity to intern at Volition Entertainment in Los Angeles. Her experience as a development intern was funded by the Suzy Kriscunas Internship Scholarship and gave her a peek behind the scenes of what a job in film and television could be like.
Eduardo Brondizio will be awarded the 2023 Volvo Environment Prize for his research examining human-environment interactions and how they’ve transformed the Amazon. Brondizio, Indiana University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the first Volvo Environment Prize laureate from IU.
Amidst increasing political polarization, Aurelian Craiutu, a professor and Chair of the Political Science department within the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, has published a new trade book, Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals.
Xingchen Ye and his group in the Department of Chemistry demonstrated that gold nanoparticles could be induced to form unique crystals with promising properties. Their work was highlighted on the cover of the August 16th edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
"As a recipient of the Tracy Gardner Internship Scholarship through the College’s Walter Center for Career Achievement, I not only had the opportunity to further my education and get one step closer to a career in spreading food sovereignty, but also allowed me to make new friends across the Atlantic and made the community of the world all that much smaller. This scholarship provided me with a life changing experience that I will cherish forever!"
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.
Professor Linda Smith from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the College is part of an IU team studying how children learn and process information visually.
IU student McKenzie Bennett, a double major in Geography and Environmental and Sustainability Studies, is forging connections and making gains in her fields of study with support from the College.
In a world marked by profound societal transformations and global challenges, there are individuals who not only grasp the intricacies of contemporary issues but actively strive to make a difference. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, esteemed anthropologist and geographer at Indiana University, stands out as one such individual.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has honored Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Krishnan Raghavachari with the Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research. This honor is given to those who demonstrate outstanding achievement in using computers to advance chemical or biological research, and the award is given internationally to one person each year.
An article published in "Nature" by researchers at Indiana University’s College of Arts and Sciences, Ostrom Workshop, and School of Public Health, reveals how investment in rural sustainability could address issues ranging from rural poverty and social inequity to climate and biodiversity crises.
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.
Using a new instrument, researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington are closer than ever to finding the mass of the so-called ‘ghost particle’, which has been studied for more than 75 years.
Over the course of 11 weeks, Brandon Radzom and his colleagues at NASA’s Planetary Science Summer School learned to design objectives, methods, and a budget for a hypothetical billion-dollar New Frontiers mission to one of Saturn’s moons.
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.
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.
Seven students from Indiana University Bloomington participated in the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program during the summer of 2023. They are among approximately 500 competitively selected American students at U.S. colleges and universities who received a CLS award in 2023.
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.
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.
Undergraduate Lauren "Wren" Garcia shares her experience interning with Eli Lilly and Company and the experiences and skills she gained from her time there.
In its seventh year, the McKinney Climate Fellowship has created more than 200 student fellowships. This year, students are leading projects in community climate resilience planning, habitat restoration, and clean energy adoption.
Two undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington have been awarded Barry Goldwater Scholarships, while two other undergraduates were nominees.
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.
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.
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).
"Self-Governance, Sustainability, and the Arts in Oaxaca, Mexico" is an 8-weeks course with a two-week travel component that took students to Oaxaca to study the social, political, economic, and linguistic contexts of contemporary Oaxacans.
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.
An op-ed by Executive Dean Rick Van Kooten explains why colleges of arts and sciences are the beating hearts of many universities.
"It's a bloom," reported John Leichter, gardener and acting supervisor of the Biology Building greenhouse on Indiana University's Bloomington campus. Leichter was referring to the shoot that had emerged from the corm of the greenhouse's corpse plant (Amorphophallus titanum), fondly known as Wally.
Ph.D. candidate Sharif A Wahab spent years interviewing Rohingya people – members of an ethnic minority who have lived in Myanmar for centuries but without actual citizenship – in refugee camps in Bangladesh. These talks show the real-life effects of people remaining refugees for years.
Media School alumni James Benedict, B.A.J. ’17, was recently awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting as one of the reporters for the story “Wall Street Traders or Washington Officials? Sometimes It’s Hard to Tell.”
Hamilton Lugar School students in Dr. Elisheva Cohen’s study abroad course: Refugees and Forced Migration in Jordan, traveled to Amman, Jordan. Students volunteered for and learned from refugee aid organizations, local communities, and refugees themselves.
Twenty-five applicants from IU Bloomington are serving or will serve abroad in 2023. Since the agency’s founding in 1961, more than 1,762 IU alumni have served abroad as Peace Corps volunteers.
Ph.D. candidate Salih Yasun writes about Turkey's presidential runoff election in May 2023, after no candidate won more than half the votes in the first round – the barrier needed to be declared an outright winner.
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.
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.
