IU Bloomington
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Love Them First Marks Lindsey Seavert’s Directorial Debut
Lindsey Seavert, BAJ’01, was working as a general assignment reporter for KARE 11, an NBC affiliate television station in Minneapolis, when she covered the drive-by shooting of a 2-year-old. Seavert…
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Stunts 101 with Patrick Kelly
You have Patrick Kelly to thank for the stunt choreography seen on the History Channel’s Vikings. Kelly and the Vikings stunt team, led by Richard Ryan, have created some of the…
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Regain Your Focus with a Purposeful Pause
Maintaining focus. It’s challenging for many of us, and something most professionals identify as a problem in their work lives. “[Staying] focused for long stretches is one of my greatest…
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How Worrying Could be Good for Your Career
Ever been told not to worry? No matter who’s giving it, that’s just bad advice, says Eric Johnson, MBA’01, executive career coach and executive director of the IU Kelley School…
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How to be the Best Version of Yourself
“It’s never too late to be what you might have been” is an aphorism often attributed to George Eliot, the 19th-century novelist. Eric Johnson, MBA’01, executive career coach and executive…
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Give Better Feedback: 5 Tips that Motivate
Leaders regularly deliver feedback to their team members, but how valuable are those conversations? Eric Johnson, MBA’01, executive career coach and executive director of the Kelley School of Business Graduate…
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Button Businesswoman
The first button Christen Carter, BA’94, ever bought was a yellow one-inch pin with an illustration of Snoopy and Woodstock on a unicycle. She was 12 years old. Jump to…
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IU’s Black History Makers
Peer into the lives of 12 alumni whose “firsts” made a lasting impact on IU, the Bloomington community, and beyond.
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IU Football, Preston Eagleson, and the 1885 Civil Rights Act
The Eagleson name is familiar to many at Indiana University and in Monroe County, as the prominent Black family is known for many “firsts” and other high-level achievements, dating back…
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Eye on the Prize
The 1895 Arbutus lists among the graduating seniors a math major named Marcellus Neal. With that announcement, history was made. Neal had officially become the first Black student to graduate…
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A Phenomenal Woman
In the fall of 1915, a young Black woman from Rushville, Ind., arrived at Indiana University to begin her freshman year. She carried with her all her worldly possessions, her…
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The Great George Taliaferro
George Taliaferro, BS’51, was the first Black man drafted to the NFL and a leader in the desegregation of Indiana University.