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The Walter Center has been named the winner of the 2026 National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Career Services Excellence Award, in the Large School category, one of the most prestig... Read more about Walter Center for Career Achievement in IU’s College of Arts and Sciences wins 2026 NACE Career Services Excellence Award
Diversity News
Collaborative project seeks to preserve endangered indigenous languages, cultural knowledge
The project aims to document natural language use and the associated cultural knowledge to use in language revitalization initiatives.
IU Bloomington hosted more than 100 representatives from several global Indigenous groups during the inaugural conference, hosted by the Global Indigenous Studies Network in the IU Hamilton Lugar S... Read more about Indigenous peoples from nearly every continent gather for IU’s first Conference on Global Indigenous Studies
Media invited to preview IU Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on Indigenous Peoples Day
Media are invited to the museum after its multi-million-dollar renovation on Indigenous Peoples Day. Experts and curators will be available to give guided tours and answer questions related to new... Read more about Media invited to preview IU Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on Indigenous Peoples Day
Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Willmott to visit IU, donate collection to Black Film Center & Archive
Willmott will visit Indiana University Bloomington this month to donate films, signed movie posters, ephemera and more to the only repository in the world solely dedicated to collecting and preserv... Read more about Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Willmott to visit IU, donate collection to Black Film Center & Archive
Lilly Library takes romance seriously with new ‘Love in the Library’ exhibition
From the turbulent love story between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy in “Pride and Prejudice” to a steamy alien courtship in “Ice Planet Barbarians,” the new exhibition celebrates romance in all f... Read more about Lilly Library takes romance seriously with new ‘Love in the Library’ exhibition
Research News
Ask the Expert: World Cup music facts from Eduardo Herrera
Eduardo Herrera, an associate professor of folklore and ethnomusicology in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington and an expert on the sounds of soccer fandom, shares 10 interesting fac... Read more about Ask the Expert: World Cup music facts from Eduardo Herrera
The coalition of industry, workforce, clinical, government and research partners is now part of a major U.S. National Science Foundation initiative that will build a regional innovation ecosystem i... Read more about IU-led coalition named NSF IMPACT Engine in Indiana to advance treatment of musculoskeletal health conditions
IU Indianapolis research center working to develop first hydrocephalus drug therapy
Patients with hydrocephalus receive shunts to divert excessive fluid from the brain to other parts of the body. Unfortunately many shunts fail, so researchers at Indiana University’s Hydrocephalu... Read more about IU Indianapolis research center working to develop first hydrocephalus drug therapy
IU-led project to study effect of immune cell aging on Parkinson’s risk
Funded by a $9 million grant, a cutting-edge research team led by Indiana University School of Medicine scientists and interdisciplinary experts from multiple universities will investigate immune c... Read more about IU-led project to study effect of immune cell aging on Parkinson’s risk
School of Medicine graduate program marks 10 years advancing cancer research in Bloomington
The Cell, Molecular and Cancer Biology Ph.D. program at the IU School of Medicine-Bloomington is marking a decade of training scientists to advance high-impact research on cancer and other diseases... Read more about School of Medicine graduate program marks 10 years advancing cancer research in Bloomington
Arts and Humanities News
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Ask the Expert: World Cup music facts from Eduardo Herrera
Eduardo Herrera, an associate professor of folklore and ethnomusicology in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington and an expert on the sounds of soccer fandom, shares 10 interesting fac... Read more about Ask the Expert: World Cup music facts from Eduardo Herrera
IU Indianapolis museum studies grad protects treasures of US space flight
A 36-story rocket. A nearly 12,000-pound engine. Thousands of files from the engineers who sent the first people to the moon. These are but a few treasures of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, wh... Read more about IU Indianapolis museum studies grad protects treasures of US space flight
Students archive marketable skills along with university’s physical and digital data
Students, many in the Luddy School’s Master of Library and Information Science program, work over the summer gaining valuable experience and technical expertise across multiple mediums, learning... Read more about Students archive marketable skills along with university’s physical and digital data
IU partnership helps preserve Black Hoosier history across rural Indiana
IU students employed by the Center for Rural Engagement worked directly with communities in Daviess, Knox and Gibson counties to hold local oral history harvest events, record vital interviews with... Read more about IU partnership helps preserve Black Hoosier history across rural Indiana
Historic treasures safeguarded by IU help Indiana teachers create civics lessons
An IU Center on Representative Government workshop, which introduced Indiana teachers to national treasures cared for by the Lilly Library and the Eskenazi Museum of Art, culminated in new lesson m... Read more about Historic treasures safeguarded by IU help Indiana teachers create civics lessons
College of Arts and Sciences News
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Ask the Expert: World Cup music facts from Eduardo Herrera
Eduardo Herrera, an associate professor of folklore and ethnomusicology in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington and an expert on the sounds of soccer fandom, shares 10 interesting fac... Read more about Ask the Expert: World Cup music facts from Eduardo Herrera
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Students archive marketable skills along with university’s physical and digital data
Students, many in the Luddy School’s Master of Library and Information Science program, work over the summer gaining valuable experience and technical expertise across multiple mediums, learning... Read more about Students archive marketable skills along with university’s physical and digital data
Cognitive neuroscientist’s research challenges theories of decision-making
New research suggests that a combination of sensory, sensorimotor and motor processes leads to what professor Tom James calls “action selection” based on a less linear, more simultaneous and ci... Read more about Cognitive neuroscientist’s research challenges theories of decision-making
Wearable tech startup aims to diagnose common breathing disorder in younger athletes
A researcher advancing wearable technology to improve the health and safety of young athletes was one of several IU faculty members to participate in the second cohort of the IU Health Incubator at... Read more about Wearable tech startup aims to diagnose common breathing disorder in younger athletes
Biochemistry lab at IU collects wild brewer’s yeast that flavors new America 250 beer
Associate professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry Matthew Bochman collaborated with Upland Brewing Company on a beer inspired by recipes from the founding fathers. The beer is fermented wi... Read more about Biochemistry lab at IU collects wild brewer’s yeast that flavors new America 250 beer
IU names former Navy research and innovation leader as chief advisor for national security R&D
Former acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition Brett Seidle, who also performed the duties of the under secretary of the Navy, has been named Indiana Univer... Read more about IU names former Navy research and innovation leader as chief advisor for national security R&D
