FYI
Tree Campus USA
Indiana University Bloomington students, faculty, staff and community members will gather today (Friday, Nov. 11) in Dunn Meadow for a tree planting organized by the IU Bloomington Tree Campus USA steering committee. Organizers aim to replace some of the trees lost to storm damage May 25 and to take a step closer to a campus goal: doubling the campus tree canopy. More »
Rebuilding after fire
Wildermuth Intramural Center Fieldhouse at Indiana University Bloomington will reopen this summer (2012) in the wake of fire July 5, 2011 that caused an estimated $3 million in damage. More »
Sparking the Hoosier economy
Public research funds received by the Indiana University School of Medicine and its partner hospitals boosted the Hoosier economy by about $370 million in 2009, according to a study released by the Association of American Medical Colleges. More »
Economical economics book
College textbooks can be expensive -- and at some point, most textbooks need to be updated. With those thoughts in mind, Professor of Economics David Dilts and Assistant Professor of Economics Myeong Hwan Kim, of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne's Richard T. Doermer School of Business, successfully updated an economics textbook and made it an economical buy. Economics (published by Kendall Hart of Dubuque, Iowa) was published over the summer and is in use in college classrooms today. More »
A complex new reality
Last week, more than 160 Indiana University Bloomington faculty members joined IU Provost and Executive Vice President Karen Hanson, Dean of University Libraries Brenda L. Johnson and a panel of eight faculty colleagues for a conversation on the future of research libraries. The Nov. 2 forum marked the start of a series of ongoing discussions with IU faculty and students on this topic. More »
Celebrating 100 years
Nearly 400 people, including Indiana University President Michael McRobbie and IUPUI Chancellor Charles Bantz, came together to celebrate 100 years of work by the Indiana University School of Social Work Oct. 24 on the IUPUI campus. The event included a special recognition letter delivered from Washington, D.C., by Richard Reed, special assistant to the President for Homeland Security and senior director for Resilience Policy. Reed is a graduate of the school (Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Social Work). View a video on the school: http://vimeo.com/iuvas/review/30414444/3ee4aae9f6. More »
