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· The space assigned to academic and administrative activities on the campuses of Indiana University account for approximately 10.1 million square feet.
http://factbook.indiana.edu/index.shtml

· Two-thirds of all Hoosiers attend arts and cultural events, a rate consistent with national trends, according to a new study conducted by the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment at IUPUI.
http://www.urbancenter.iupui.edu

· Bernardo Carducci, director of the Shyness Research Institute at IU Southeast, is quoted in the June issue of Psychology Today in a feature article titled "Mirror, Mirror: Seeing Yourself as Others See You." He is co-author, along with Ronald Allman, assistant journalism professor at IU Southeast, of a shyness workbook recently published by Research Press.
http://www.researchpress.com

· According to The Indiana Entrepreneur, a publication of the Kelley School's Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the word "entrepreneur" comes from the 13th-century French verb "entreprendre," meaning "to do something" or "to undertake." By the 16th century, "entrepreneur" began to be used to define someone who was undertaking a business venture.
http://www.kelley.indiana.edu/jcei

· Students In Free Enterprise team members at IU Kokomo were named second runners-up in first- round competition at the SIFE USA National Exposition May 22-24 in Kansas City, Mo.
http://www.iuk.edu/external-relations/ocm/news/may05/20050526001.html

· Read about some of "IU's Amazing Student Interns" at this Web site:
http://www.indiana.edu/~interns/

· Some 35,000 IU license plates are on the highways. Plates are available to all Indiana residents directly from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
http://www.alumni.indiana.edu/merch/lp.html