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Meet the IU team saving languages and lives with linguistics
Linguists are in the business of studying language, scientifically. Like anthropologists of the spoken word, they document and examine what we say, how we say it, and why. They use…
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Paper Architect
The word “origami” usually conjures images of delicately folded paper cranes, flowers, and sailboats. What it doesn’t immediately bring to mind is building-size structures that can shelter and support human…
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Lights | Camera | Action
Breath | Light | Stone is a 15-minute film conceived and co-directed by Allen Hahn and Elizabeth Shea, both professors in the IU Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance.
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Culture Keepers
On the southern coast of Mexico’s isthmus, in the centuries-old city of Juchitán, a child dips his hand in paint and presses his palm against a stone wall—one of the…
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The Business of Craft Beer
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…
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New Light on an Old Story: The Secret of the Faculty War
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…