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IU will receive a record $413 million in research awards this fiscal year. The other good news? Research universities make a unique and sometimes unacknowledged contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning, according to the editors of a new IU Press book.

If the Olympic swimmers have caught your eye, click here to view a biography of the late great James “Doc” Councilman, brought to you by our colleagues at the IU Foundation.

Remember Monet’s water lilies painted on the haunches of a representational cow grazing along the sidewalk of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile? CowParade debuted in 1999; D.C.s Party Animals hit the streets in 2002, with donkeys and elephants of every artistic stripe. There are even giant lobsters languishing along the shores of Cape Ann, Mass. Move over bovines and crustaceans, vertebrates and inverts. IPFW is celebrating its 40th anniversary with the commission of a 40-head herd of fiberglass mastodons. Artists just like you are being recruited.

Symposium participants consider role of continuing education in developing the state’s economy.

Those new to Indiana may be anticipating a little night music with the opening of the performance season next month at the IU Musical Arts Center in Bloomington. Behind the scenes in recent months, workers have been completing renovations that primarily included an asbestos abatement. Workers swaddled the elegant facility in plastic wrap reminiscent of the work of environmental artists Christo and Jeanne-Paul.

The director of IU South Bend’s Civil Rights Heritage Center often heads South in early summer, accompanying a group of students to touchstone destinations of the civil rights movement. Les Lamon says his Freedom Summer is based partly on his own concept of what it means to “study abroad,” which, he says, can often be done in one’s own country.