Photo by Chris Meyer A student makes his way through a wooded area near the Chemistry Building in Bloomington.

Today's Feature

‘And the award goes to…’

Oscars, we don’t have. But we can shine the spotlight on a few of the many exceptional students who enrich the campuses of Indiana University.


  • One fine tutor
  • ‘This I Believe’
  • Advancing discoveries through informatics
  • Combining medicine with advocacy
  • Making a better place for children
  • A hamster in the walkway
  • ‘Suspended in Perpetual Ascent’
  • ‘Seeing through other eyes’

    • Additional top stories

    03/01/07: Michael McRobbie named new IU president
    Visit the following web site for more information:
    http://www.indiana.edu/~newpres/

    'Like sleeping flowers'

    Winter winds, ice and snow caused closings and delays on several IU campuses last week. Can spring be far away? (See photos from the campuses from our far-flung digital photographers.)

    UITS goes the distance

    Come sleet or snow or icy rain, UITS keeps the cyberfires burning. The unit also kept the Telephone Call Center up and running.

    IHETS summit March 30

    Registration is open for the IHETS Tech Summit, which will host the Internet2’s president and discuss the "rolling IT horizon.”

    Bushnell's blog

    In the Dec. 8 edition of IU Home Pages, writer Kathy Borlik interviewed Peter Bushnell about his upcoming research expedition to Anarctica. He’s back on campus at IU South Bend, and you can catch up on his adventure at the campus’ exceptional American Democracy Project web site.

    Profile: Sam Dargan

    He was the first African American to graduate from the IU School of Law-Bloomington and made his way into the hearts of many students in the early 20th century.

    IU Trustees: They're searchable

    A quarter century of IU Trustees' meeting minutes may now be perused online. Plans are also underway to digitize the minutes from 1835-1980.

    First Mondays

    The IU Cancer Center is hosting monthly get-togethers, including a buffet supper, for cancer patients and their caregivers in Indiana. The innovative inter- disciplinary psycho-oncology program, offered free of charge, seeks to meeting the emotional, spiritual and physical needs of cancer patients.

    'Sometimes people can be trusted'

    In terms of ecological sustainability and contradicting the standard approach to environmental protection, IU's Eleanor Ostrom presents a diagnostic framework to help policy makers at the national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.