IU Bloomington

Here’s a bit of irony: Author Jason Vuic, PhD’05, has become a success by writing about failure. The books he wrote about the joke-of-a-car Yugo, and the comically terrible Tampa…

The writer Meg Cabot’s, BA’91, life could have gone in an entirely different artistic direction. Raised in Bloomington, Ind., the author of The Princess Diaries attended IU, lived in the…

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…

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…

March 4, 1993, was the day Calbert Cheaney, BA’93, broke the Big Ten basketball all-time scoring record. Cheaney was a three-time All-American at IU, sweeping the National Player of the…

Former Hoosier Victor Oladipo, BS’13, answered our “virtual” questions on Twitter about his breakout season with the Indiana Pacers. We chatted about what life is like for Victor in the…

Time and imagination can bury the truth of a person, place, or event under layers of mythology. By excavating facts from the deep sediment of urban legend and storytelling passed…

Indiana University’s campuses have changed so much over the years that it’s hard to grasp the full extent of their transformation. Here are before and after photos of a particularly…

In the fall of 1916, as war was raging in Europe, twelve international students at Indiana University formed the Bloomington branch of the Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs, a national organization…

By virtue of repetition, stories acquire momentum and thus endure. A story connected with the institutional saga of Indiana University – the “Faculty War” of 1832 – has become a…

Descending from the chugging train, the freshman clutches his trunk. The air is full of ashy fumes. The young man surveys the bustling train station: newcomers like him take in…

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…