General News

Indiana University's Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs has announced the winners of the Fran Snygg Endowment Fund and the Fran Snygg Grant for Artistic Collaboration. This year's recipients are Joseph Galvin from the Jacobs School of Music, and Gwendolyn Hamm, Elizabeth Shea and Selene Carter from the Department of Kinesiology in the Indiana University School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.
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Indiana University Kokomo has reached the finalist stage in the process of naming a new chancellor. Finalists for the position will visit the campus this month to meet with faculty, staff, students and community members. Following those visits, the university search committee that identified the finalists will meet again and make further recommendations to President Michael McRobbie. McRobbie will make the selection subject to approval by the IU Board of Trustees.
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Students from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Kelley School of Business will be providing free tax assistance to low-income, elderly, disabled, and limited English-speaking residents over the next month. The students will be participating in the Internal Revenue Service's Volunteers in Tax Assistance (VITA) program beginning Wednesday (Feb. 10) at the law school, 211 S. Indiana Ave. in room 122. The walk-in clinic will run from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays through March 12. All program volunteers are trained and certified by the IRS.
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The IU School Journalism's spring lecture series will feature two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who have reported from inside some of the most embattled places in the world -- Sheryl WuDunn and John F. Burns -- and one of the premier media commentators in America, Ken Auletta.

Indiana University diversity committees are scheduled to meet on three campuses in February.
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The 2010 Census Portrait of America Road Tour regional bus will make a stop at Indiana University's Bloomington campus tomorrow (Feb. 9), 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Indiana Memorial Union Building's Alumni Hall.
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