IU Bloomington
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Unseen IU: Student Building Chime
Walk through IU’s Bloomington campus on a Friday evening and you may hear “Hail to Old I.U.” ringing out. The source of the sound is a 14-bell chime housed in…
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Feeling Sleepy? Try a Nap Pod
For those students too weary-eyed to go on, Indiana University is proud to announce the launch of innovative new nap pods on the Bloomington and IUPUI campuses. The nap pods,…
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IU students exercise caution when encountering squirrels
October is National Squirrel Awareness Month! No, really. Look it up! In honor of this important observance, Indiana University has a special message about what to do (and what not…
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Superhero of Fun
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…
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One man. Two discoveries. 130 million years in the making.
It was a (pre)historic year for IU paleobotanist David Dilcher. In August 2015, Dilcher and a team of European scientists identified what could be the world’s “first flower”: Montsechia vidalii,…
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Food Fighter
In terms of food, if we can get to 2050 without screwing up the planet, we’re probably good forever. Jack Bobo says this so calmly you might wonder if he’s…
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Improving Children’s Health, One Game at a Time
Typically, the children play soccer on packed dirt, not grass. And the balls are sometimes rags taped together. Sometimes, they’re just tape. Those were some of the conditions that Sarah…