• IU South Bend’s Fred Naffziger, professor of business law, is the recipient of the campus’ Distinguished Research Award, and David Barton, professor of music theory and composition at IUSB, has been named the 20th recipient of the prestigious Lundquist Faculty Fellowship for outstanding accomplishments in teaching, scholarship and research. He directs the Computer Music Studio. Both will present lectures during the next academic year.

• Eighty percent of graduates from IU’s newest school, the School of Informatics, have chosen to live and to work in the state of Indiana after graduation.

• Past IU electees to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences include pianist Menahem Pressler, cellist Janos Starker, Metropolitan Opera alumna Martina Arroyo, and biologists Thomas Kaufman, Howard Gest, Rudolf Raff, Jeff Palmer and Michael Lynch. (Meet IU’s newest fellow.)

• Indianapolis native and School of Music alumna Angela Brown will make her Carnegie Hall debut June 16 as Cassandra in the American premiere of Agamemnon, by the late Russian composer Sergey Taneyev. Brown was a student of Virginia Zeani at IUB and is considered one of the most accomplished young American sopranos.