Recent stories
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Superhero of Fun
With a degree in criminal justice and experience in martial arts, it just makes sense that Jake Pierle, BA’14, became a superhero. When his fellow IU Bloomington classmates asked him…
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Overcoming the Odds (in a Giant Way)
It’s a long way from Haughville to IUPUI. Only two miles or so, actually. But what if you step outside and see your future foretold in the shell casings scattered…
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Astro-Orthopedics
Imagine watching Neil Armstrong descend the Apollo 11 ladder to take the first steps on the moon. He reaches the bottom rung, pushes off the frame, and plants his foot…
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Great Art Deserves to Live Forever
Thanks to IU’s Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, it can. The Laboratory recently partnered with the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, to create high-resolution 3-D digital models of 1,250 Uffizi sculptures. The…
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Undoing Time
On April 25, 2016, Darryl Pinkins was released from prison after serving nearly 25 years for crimes he didn’t commit. During the long journey to clearing his name, his faith…
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One man. Two discoveries. 130 million years in the making.
It was a (pre)historic year for IU paleobotanist David Dilcher. In August 2015, Dilcher and a team of European scientists identified what could be the world’s “first flower”: Montsechia vidalii,…
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Food Fighter
In terms of food, if we can get to 2050 without screwing up the planet, we’re probably good forever. Jack Bobo says this so calmly you might wonder if he’s…
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A Cause for Faith & Fashion in HIV Care
When Faith arrived with her mother at the pediatric ward of the Kenyan hospital closest to the village where they lived, the 4-year-old was so withered that she weighed just…
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Turning the Tide on Plastic Waste
A scoop of dirt from a farm in the small Indiana town of Rossville may contain some of the answers to our world’s plastic problem. In 2014, Ben Hufford, a…
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Sweet Sculpture
Pop in on artist Makenzie Kus, BA’07, at 2 a.m. just about any weekend, and you’ll find her still hard at work on her art, usually adding extra details, because…
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Fighting Fire With … Chemistry
Take two sofas—one manufactured today and another in 1970—and light them on fire. If you did, IU Southeast student and firefighter Josh Scalf says you’d notice a difference. Due to…
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Improving Children’s Health, One Game at a Time
Typically, the children play soccer on packed dirt, not grass. And the balls are sometimes rags taped together. Sometimes, they’re just tape. Those were some of the conditions that Sarah…