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Photo by Chris Meyer
Nature creates its own art in a curtain of icicles on a roofline near the IU Bloomington campus. The Student Building clock tower stands as a sentinel in the background.

 
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Six IUB staff members have garnered $1,000 prizes for their contributions to the campus. At IUPUI, nominations for staff awards are being solicited.


The IUB campus will ponder the “creative process” during its 21st annual ArtsWeek blitz of exhibits, lectures, music, theater and literary events. In another arts exploration initiative, the university-wide New Frontiers grants offer faculty $5 million to continue building Indiana’s arts and humanities intellectual capital.
 
Does a deaf child with a cochlear implant discriminate sound in the same manner as normal hearing infants? That’s just one of the questions researchers at IUSM’s Infant Language Lab are hoping to answer.
 
January marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany’s notorious death camp. Meet IU’s Holocaust scholars and learn about their outreach focus, ensuring future generations never forget.
 
HP’s Lee Ann Sandweiss visits the Center for the Study of History and Memory in this issue’s “Think Tank.” Founded in 1968, the center was conceived to collect IU’s oral history. Its focus has since expanded to include the Midwest, with a particular emphasis on Indiana.
 


Today’s feature

Graphic by Becky Buher
All that jazz
IU jazz legend David Baker concludes his discussion on his early musical influences and training, his years at the IU School of Music in Bloomington and the history of the jazz scene in Indiana with WFIU jazz radio host Joe Bourne in today’s Part II segment of "Conversations online," featuring the music of Wes Montgomery, Artie Shaw and, of course, Baker himself. Be sure to check out the first installment of Baker’s interview, which includes audiostreamed music from Dizzy Gillespie and Slide Hampton.