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Law and order: The new edition of SPEA Magazine, a publication of the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs, is hot off the presses. Read about four Indianapolis criminal justice professors, the future of American civil liberties, bioremediation and much more. It's all online.
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"I believe that (H.G.) Wells regarded science as our greatest cumulative achievement, but he also realized that science has had little effect, so far, in making us less violent or more compassionate," said IU Distinguished Professor and author Scott Sanders in October 1998, in a feature presentation IU Home Pages ran to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Wells' War of the Worlds and the 60th anniversary of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio broadcast. Next week, the Steven Spielberg version of WOW opens in theaters across the country.
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IU has launched a program that gives faculty on all IU campuses the potential to turn virtually any space into a learning space—by providing notebook computers to eligible faculty members.
Volunteers are being recruited to man the IU exhibition area at the Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration in July. IU also is expanding its long-standing partnership with IBE to include a series of year-round initiatives aimed at increasing college attendance among young African Americans.
IPFW is getting ready to stage its largest cast ever at the Williams Theatre for Meredith Wilson's classic musical. And at the Tuba Ranch in Bloomington, Professor Harvey Phillips reminisces
about all things tuba
on today's " Conversation online."And don't forget to check out Jazz in July at the IU Art Museum.
IU lost a friend and valued colleague with the death this month of Lissa Hunt, editor of Indiana Alumni Magazine. J-school grad student Dan Comiskey fondly recalls the spunky nature and wise intellect of a mentor he had for far too short a time.
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This is dedicated
to the buildings we love
The new home of the Herron School of Art and Design was dedicated in Indianapolis June 3 and the Main Library in Bloomington formally became the Herman B Wells Library on June 17. Upcoming: dedication of the IU Southeast Library June 28 at 2 p.m. Eastern time, in New Albany.
Photos by Chris Meyer
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Bert Harrill is knocking on a lot of electronic doors to bring interested parties to the table for the Ancient Studies Program, a Ph.D. minor on the Bloomington campus. So far, 23 faculty have been recruited from diverse departments.
If you have an IU degree, you and 464,000 others have a role in determining university leadership. Ballots are due June 30.
An IU philosopher of science explores an area of human sexuality to find out why "such incredibly bad science became so widely believed."
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