September 2009
In Every Issue
Headliners
The Class of 2013 at IU Bloomington cracked the 1,200 mark for SAT average scores and brings increased diversity. Enrollment records have been broken on several of the IU campuses, including IUPUI.
Arts & Humanities
A new exhibit at the SoFA Gallery in Bloomington explores ways in which the prospect of catastrophic climate change challenges the limits of human comprehension and agency.
Research
An upsurge in federal support for energy research and development has spurred IU researchers and administrators to consider anew the pressing challenges associated with energy acquisition and use and to produce an energy research roadmap for the university.
Today's feature
Acclimating to the pace and depth of college life may be the most important skill that incoming freshmen must master. The Class of 2013 gets a jumpstart with summer Freshman Intensive Seminars at IU Bloomington. Jennifer Piurek reports on the trial of Hamlet and the IFS This is Your Brain on Media class. More »
Events
Only about 13 percent of sports reporters are minorities, while just 6 percent of print and online sports editors are people of color, revealed a recent study. IUPUI's National Sports Journalism Center will host a symposium on the topic Sept. 14. Among participants will be William C. Rhoden, sports columnist for The New York Times and author of the controversial book Forty Million Dollar Slaves.
Health
Americans remain divided on support of government-sponsored health insurance for those under age 65, according to an IU survey. Age of respondents was a factor in opinion.
FYI
IU Bloomington's new telephone directory will point information seekers to phonebook.iu.edu, requesting that the paper directory be recycled immediately.
Outreach
Professor Raquel Anderson hopes her newly funded STEPS program will one day help offer Spanish-speaking children with communication disorders and their families the same access to and quality of speech-language services currently available to their monolingual, English-speaking peers.
