Photo by Chris Meyer IU President-elect Michael McRobbie (left) waves as IU President Adam Herbert (center) and Sue Talbot, an IU trustee, applaud at the March 1 announcement at IUPUI.

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IU's 18th president

Michael McRobbie will assume the role of Indiana University’s 18th president on July 1. His promotion was approved unanimously by the IU Board of Trustees on March 1.
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Iraqi ambassador at IUB April 3

Making the rounds


IU President-elect Michael McRobbie was visiting IU campuses state-wide this week, following announcement of his selection on March 1. See Today’s Feature below.

Another jewel along the corridor


The 166,000-square-foot IU Health Information and Translational Sciences Building was dedicated Wednesday, providing another vital component to the life sciences corridor along the canal in downtown Indianapolis.

New dean for HPER

Robert Goodman will be the next dean of the 75-year-old IU School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at IU Bloomington.

Best medicine

A medical research consortium in northwest Indiana was announced Feb. 27, as was a partnership between the IU Cancer Center and a southern Indiana health facility. Both strategies will extend the expertise and resources of the IU School of Medicine to regional health-care providers and their patients.

Booyah!

CNBC's "Mad Money" will broadcast from Assembly Hall in Bloomington April 4. How do you get the attention of the effervescent host, Jim Cramer? Leave it to a scrappy bunch of Kelley School undergrads.

Symposia on the horizon

A half-day April 12 in Indianapolis will explore involuntary sterilization laws, which were first passed in Indiana a century ago. The Stone Age Institute in Bloomington is hosting an international conference April 27-28 on "The Brain Emerging."