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Here’s an unnerving thought: Floating miles above your head at this very moment are more than 34,000 pieces of space debris. That’s more than the undergraduate population at IU Bloomington—and…

By almost any measure, the word “genius” is overused these days. Your co-worker is a self-proclaimed “basketball genius”; your neighbor admiringly dubs you a “genius at landscaping.” But in the…

If you are one of the many folks who found yourself struggling with mental health during the pandemic (or anytime for that matter), Y. Joel Wong, professor of counseling psychology…

From a pool in Bloomington to bodies of water around the world, Indiana University’s Center for Underwater Science has made a name for itself as an international leader in underwater…

After nearly a century, the remains of more than 700 Native Americans have returned home. This past April, IU completed the repatriation of the Angel Mounds collection in partnership with…

If you want to understand how the pandemic is affecting families in the United States, an old adage still applies: “Mother knows best.” “Mothers are the key to family health,”…

When Barzille Winfred Merrill accepted the position as head of the IU Department of Music in 1919, he hoped to create a music school that would serve as both a…

In his time at IU Bloomington, senior Ky Freeman has been a Groups Scholar, served as president of the Black Student Union, and been a member of the IU Police…

We don’t know who KDVD is. We don’t know what KDVD stands for. But we may have KDVD to thank for Indiana University’s most iconic symbol. KDVD is the artist…

While travel has many upsides—mental and physical benefits, opportunities for cultural immersion, and educational enrichment—it also has a significant impact on our planet. Tourism contributes to roughly 11 percent of…

In 1973, the Office of Latino Affairs was established at IU Bloomington. With Horacio Lewis serving as director, four principles guided the OLA’s work: empowerment, diversity, belonging, and persistence. “That…

Tom Harold, BA’94, was both delighted and positively transfixed. “It was George Rhoads’s rolling ball sculpture in the [Indianapolis] Children’s Museum,” he recalls. The kinetic piece, Science in Recess, featured…