Photo by John Gentry
A total of 16,049 graduates received degrees from Indiana University during May commencement ceremonies at eight campuses. Twins Noah and Abigail (cradled above) may have been snoozing, but the IU School of Medicine’s graduation was a big day for their parents, Adam and Kristin Will, and 259 classmates who received their medical degrees May 10.
Today's Feature
Commencement ‘08
Commencement at the eight statewide campuses is complete, and we invite you to share in the sights and sounds that defined those moments. But we also leave you, in this final edition of the 2007-2008 school year, with a fitting quote from IU neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor, one of Time magazine’s new crop of the world’s “100 most influential" people: “It's very important that we recognize and honor the gifts and skills of each and allow ourselves to be more balanced in how we live.”
Additional top stories
- Summer Music Fest, June 15-Aug. 9, in Bloomington
- IPFW students blogging for ‘futures’
- Two new institutes: at IUPUI, public policy; at IU South Bend, sustainability
- Lute Troutt’s heirloom shortcake recipe
- IU camp opportunities
- What’s it like to work for IU 40 years?
- New Ph.D. to emphasize African diaspora
Drivers, start your degree programs
A bachelor’s degree program in motorsports engineering will debut next fall at IUPUI and driver-owner Sarah Fisher has partnered with the campus as she gets ready to race at Sunday’s Indianapolis 500.
Jacobs at the Kennedy
Eight students from the Jacobs School of Music will perform tonight at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. If you’re not there, click your mouse, follow the links and watch a live stream, at 6 p.m.‘All roads leaf to Rome’
In Brasilia, Cairo, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Venice, researchers have found mathematical similarities between road patterns and a common visual structure -- something resembling the veins of a leaf.
Great gigs
Read about IPFW’s first student Fulbright Scholar; an IUPUI informatics grad who will be an animator for Toy Story 3; a group of SPEA students who spent the spring working for Indiana’s governor; and a physics doctoral student bound for Germany to meet with Nobel laureates.
Great faculty
Two IU geneticists have been tapped for membership in two of the world’s most prestigious learned academies and four new deans have been named on statewide campuses. Read about them in today’s Triumphs and Transitions.Big Bang, deep impact
IU physicists are preparing for their part in a study of the strongest glue in the universe, a substance so strong it has held together the fundamental building blocks of matter since microseconds after the Big Bang. Meanwhile, an international geological team has released research concerning an asteroid’s impact with Earth 65 million years ago.
Birds and bees
May is a month when nature shows its brightest colors. View a video from at IU aviary and learn about the cultural roots of cowbird attraction. From the Kinsey Institute, new research focuses on human attraction, and a juried art show at the Kinsey, through July 25, is open every weekday afternoon.
