Photo by Chris Meyer
IU President Michael McRobbie, who was inaugurated at ceremonies Oct. 18 in Bloomington, and his wife, Laurie Burns McRobbie, waved at well-wishers watching from the roof of Carmichael Center during the 49th annual homecoming parade on the IUB campus. The McRobbies were grand marshals of the parade, which wended its way through campus to a pep rally at the Sample Gates. To view an audiovideo glimpse of Celebrate IU Week, go to this web site.
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Good times
If you missed getting one of the Sugar n’ Spice Shop’s 1,000 cookies at the presidential inauguration or haven’t seen the life forms adhering to the side of the newly dedicated Simon Hall at IUB, here’s a few things we can share with you about October’s Celebrate IU Week.
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New fellows
Four IU scientists and a journalist have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Totes for Tots
Getting parents to interact with their preschoolers is first-order business for Marilyn Skinner and her staff at the IU Kokomo Center for Early Childhood Education as they set about equipping Howard County kids with the best learning-readiness tools in the region.Nella Larsen’s place
George Hutchinson’s cultural biography of “the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance” has garnered accolades from Phi Beta Kappa.
Catch them both
The Men of Color Leadership Conference is scheduled Nov. 9-10 at IUB, and IU South Bend’s Conversation on Race XI is set for Nov. 15.A classic trade-off
Ellen Ketterson and colleagues have found that the ability to ramp up testosterone production appears to drive male dark-eyed juncos to win mates, but their performance as “bad dads” may be the evolutionary cost.
Vroom-vroom-vroom
This spring, collaboration between IUPUI and Winston-Salem State University will give students from both campuses the opportunity to explore the motorsports industry. Be sure, too, to check out Peter Hylton's new book, which chronicles the bygone raceways of the Sports Car Club of America.
Pavlovian by design
Ivan Pavlov won the Nobel Prize in physiology in 1904, and Bill Timberlake has won the Pavlovian Society’s Research Award in 2007.
Bohemian by design
When Mimi’s candle goes out on Christmas Eve, Rodolfo will light another kind of fire. Join the IU Opera Theater opening night (Nov. 9), and see what David Higgins has done to the streets of Paris.
