Winter Commencement Photo by Tyra Robertson An IU commencement at Assembly Hall in Bloomington Dec. 15 gave added meaning to the upcoming New Year for the 1,701 students (including these four above) who received graduate and undergraduate degrees. To see a gallery of commencement photos: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/asset/page/normal/4238.html.
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Nature

Sustainability

Reading an Ibsen play, building a framework for change, building a wetland, collecting scientific data, imparting a message to the next generation: they’re all ways IU faculty and staff are adding to the awareness that we’re all in this together.

  • Examining ‘Sustainable Communities’
  • One campus’s quest for sustainability
  • A wetland for Bradford Woods
  • Hanson on ‘progressive change’
  • ‘Different things drive different people’
  • Global warming: IUPUI Deans’ Day topic Jan. 26
  • SPEA keeping tabs on American wildlife
  • The proof is in the bark
  • When dinosaurs roamed, what catalyzed plant growth?
  • ArtsWeek 2008: The arts and politics
  • Additional top stories

    Got game? Bring shoes.

    Basketball IUPUI men’s basketball coach Ron Hunter plans to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by seeing that 40,000 kids in Africa get a new pair of shoes. He’s hoping you’ll bring a pair or two to the Jan. 26 game. The IU campuses also will honor King with an official holiday Jan. 21 and events that extend into Black History Month, including an exhibit of photographs of the Bridgewater family of Bloomington and another highlighting the life of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

    $60 million

    If you missed the good news in December, it’s well worth telling again. The Lilly Endowment has awarded $44 million to the Jacobs School of Music and $25 million to the School of Law-Bloomington.

    Flip build

    Flip book Remember making “flip books” in which you could animate your own drawings? IUPUI’s Campus Center opened Jan. 7, and an online time-release film by Steve Hodges will “flip” you through the two+ years of construction in just under 26 seconds.

    Opening doors

    IU High School is partnering with Purdue and local social service providers to bring accessible educational opportunities to Clinton County residents. If the plan works, IUHS will be approaching other Hoosier counties.

    Be fearless

    Jeff Nelson Whether your venue is the office cube, the soccer field or the stage, the Jacob School’s Jeff Nelsen has a few tips on how to avoid performance anxiety.

    Hot, hot, hot

    Nursing, that is. A Kelley School report projects that Indiana will have 30 percent more RNs by 2014. We direct you, too, to a profile of an IU Kokomo nursing professor who has been known to jump from an airplane.

    O, Pioneers!

    When the men’s basketball team at IU East takes to the court Jan. 26 for its homecoming game, the campus will be one step closer to bidding farewell to the Pioneer mascot. Finalists for a new name will be announced at half-time. Among the suggestions: Platypi, Crossroaders, Railroaders and Sky Walkers.