IU Alumni Magazine

In 2015, IU Bloomington Associate Professor Ross Gay’s latest book of poetry, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, was shortlisted for the National Book Award. Though he didn’t win that prize, a…

In his book, If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body, James Hamblin, MD’09, tackles an array of questions—the ones we might be too…

Sometimes there’s nothing better than heading to your favorite local watering hole and grabbing a glass of ice-cold beer. Today, thanks to the rise of the craft beer industry, you…

Ross Fazekas, BS’88, has been attending music concerts since 1982. He keeps every ticket stub and proudly displays hundreds of them in poster-size frames on the wall of his office…

As a longtime lover of lakes and antiques, painter Douglas David, BFA’79, has seen his fair share of wooden water skis that have been relegated to retirement in a fiberglass…

Christopher D. White’s sculptures play with the themes of growth and decay. He finds beauty in both, and he captures that in his sculptures. “Growth and decay are both processes…

Stop-motion animation takes forever,” Addie Snider, BA’12, says while laughing. At 200 to 300 frames per minute, eight hours of work equals about one minute of animation. And she loves…

When Laura Yates, MS/MPA’16, came to Bloomington in 2014 for the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs’s grad program, she brought The Little Leaf, the 220-square-foot house she built…

It takes a special kind of person to dedicate his or her career to helping people who are fleeing from war and political strife. Cole Varga, BA’05, is one of…

“Blind zebra” is one of the tamer terms irate football fans have shouted at NFL referee Bryan Neale, BS’92, but it’s a label he’s embraced. When he’s not blowing his…

Tenaya Darlington, MFA’97, has a not-so-secret identity: Madame Fromage, cheese blogger extraordinaire with a sense of humor sharper than any cheddar. “I’ve always thought that cheese was theatrical,” she says…

When Anita DeCastro, BA’09, MA’14, is on the pole, she says she feels invincible and powerful. You can see the strength in her arms and legs as she positions herself…