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Stories that bring the IU experience to you through words, photos, and videos. Stories that showcase pioneering scholars in action, groundbreaking research at work, and IU students and alumni making their marks on the world. IU Stories is a home for “tried and true” IU spirit.

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  • Finding Fibbers

    Baloney, hogwash, hooey, rubbish, poppycock, bull. Call it what you will, disinformation is a problem. The proliferation of provably false information is only growing and becoming more subtle, sophisticated, and subversive.

  • A Mindful Approach to Mental Health

    If you’ve noticed terms such as “self-care” becoming more prevalent in our cultural lexicon, it’s for good reason. According to IU Distinguished Professor of Sociology Bernice Pescosolido, mental health is finally—and fortunately—having its moment.

  • Educating Entrepreneurs Like Nobody’s Business

    The Business Opportunities for Self-Starters program at IU East (BOSS for short) imparts this fundamental lesson to local high school students by teaching economics, entrepreneurship, and, yes, how to write a business plan.

  • Don Fischer: Voice of the Indiana Hoosiers

    Don Fischer has been calling IU football and men’s basketball games for more than 50 years as the school's official play-by-play announcer.

  • Revisit IU Bloomington in the 1970s with Films by Al Edyvean

    From freshman orientation and sorority recruitment to the 1975–76 men’s basketball team, Al Edyvean, BA’72, MS’75, captured it all on camera.

  • Triathlete Jenny Smith Reflects on One of the World’s Toughest Events and Surviving a Shark Encounter

    Only 53 athletes in the world have successfully completed the Enduroman Arch 2 Arc challenge—Jenny (Johnson) Smith, BS’99, is one of them.

  • Remote Success: Ace the Virtual Interview

    With remote work becoming the normal in many offices, the hiring process often takes place online— a benefit to those looking for a job.

  • IUPUI Researchers See Promise in the Guts of Blow Flies

    Could blow flies become a critical line of defense in wartime? Absolutely, say IUPUI researchers. A team from IUPUI’s Forensic and Investigative Sciences Program has uncovered the ability of blow flies to detect chemicals, including chemical warfare agents, in the environment.

  • Contestant Chronicles

    More than a dozen IU alumni have appeared on some of the most iconic, nationally televised game shows, including “Wheel of Fortune.”

  • McKinney Law Alumnus J.B. Stradford was Prominent on Black Wall Street

    J. B. Stradford, the first IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law graduate, was one of the most prominent businessman of "Black Wall Street."

  • Olympic Gold Medalist: Milton Campbell

    Milton Campbell, ’57, was the first Black man to win Olympic gold in the decathlon. He was inducted into the IU Hall of Fame in 1982.

  • Our Cosmic Cleanup Problem—And Its IU-Led Solution

    Floating miles above your head at this very moment are more than 34,000 pieces of space debris. It’s estimated that there are an additional 128 million smaller fragments hurtling around the Earth.

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