IU Alumni Magazine

In late January 2016, a group of IU alumni returned to Bloomington, Ind., with cameras and a production crew in tow. For three weeks, Bloomington served as the backdrop for…

Seeing 1977’s Star Wars changed David West Reynolds’s life forever.   “(It) burst upon my imagination like nothing else I had ever experienced,” explains Reynolds, BA’88, of New Albany, Ind. “What bowled me over most of all was how real those exotic…

“Design is more than just aesthetics and making things look cool,” says IU School of Art, Architecture, and Design senior lecturer Jon Racek. “It can be about creating change and…

When Mina Starsiak, BGS’07, and her mother, Karen E Laine, JD’92, bought a fixer-upper home in the Fountain Square neighborhood just south of downtown Indianapolis in 2007, they knew they…

With a degree in criminal justice and experience in martial arts, it just makes sense that Jake Pierle, BA’14, became a superhero. When his fellow IU Bloomington classmates asked him…

Pop in on artist Makenzie Kus, BA’07, at 2 a.m. just about any weekend, and you’ll find her still hard at work on her art, usually adding extra details, because…