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.

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.

Besting last year's record-setting turnout, the Women's Law Caucus Auction raised more than $11,000 Friday (Feb. 5) for Bloomington's Middle Way House and Protective Order Project. The annual event features packages donated by Indiana University Maurer School of Law faculty and staff. Students from the Law School form small teams to bid on the items, which can include anything from a Trivial Pursuit competition to attending an afternoon of golf with members of the faculty and staff.

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.

IU's Kelley School of Business has received $1 million from 3M Corp. and its foundation for a new professional sales and communications lab for students. It is the first major corporate gift for a $60 million capital campaign to transform the school's facilities for undergraduate students.

Indiana University diversity committees are scheduled to meet on three campuses in February.

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.

The Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences is offering five STEM classes this summer specifically designed for the needs of K-12 teachers. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; improving STEM education at all levels has been named a priority by President Barack Obama.

Lord of the Dance, featuring 2009 World Irish Dance champions Scott Doherty and Michael McHugh, will be in Bloomington for a one-performance matinee appearance March 7 at 3 p.m.

Indiana University Bloomington's College of Arts and Sciences will host a two-week workshop this summer (June 13-24) for students interested in applying to graduate programs in the humanities and social sciences. The workshop titled Preparing for Graduate Study in the Twenty-First Century is aimed in particular at current college sophomores and juniors from underrepresented groups.

Two musical performances will have audiences thinking about the natural world and our relationship to it during ArtsWeek 2010. Jazz guitarist Brad Shepik will present his 10-part "Human Activity Suite" on Feb. 26. Earlier in the week, compositions written by Bloomington-area schoolchildren will be featured in an afternoon concert on Feb. 21. ArtsWeek runs from Feb. 18-Feb. 28. This year's theme is Arts and the Environment.

Indiana University Professor Elinor Ostrom, co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in economic sciences, will present an updated version of her Nobel Prize lecture for an IU and Indiana audience on Feb. 16 at the Indiana University Auditorium. The program will take place from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., with IU President Michael A. McRobbie introducing Ostrom. Admission is free and open to the public; tickets are not required.

The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Contemporary Vocal Ensemble (CVE), conducted by Carmen Helena Téllez, will perform a free concert at the Art Institute of Chicago's Fullerton Hall Feb. 21 at 2 p.m. The ensemble will also perform "Vision and Belief" Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. in the Jacobs School's Auer Hall in Bloomington.

Indiana University's most innovative researchers will gain access to another source of venture capital and to commercialization teams through a new agreement between IU's Research & Technology Corp. and the venture capital firm The University Funds.

Nearly three dozen faculty from various Indiana University campuses have received New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities grants for 2010 to support expansion of their work into new disciplinary or interdisciplinary areas.

There have been many books about what photographers see looking through the camera lens. A new book by an Indiana University journalism professor examines what drives the people who click the shutter.

Indiana University ranks fourth in the Big Ten, ninth among public universities, and 21st among all colleges and universities in the nation in the amount of support it received from the private sector in fiscal 2009.

Pack up your plastics and gather your glass containers. RecycleMania is coming to Indiana University Bloomington. RecycleMania is a friendly, nationwide competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. The contest will run for 10 weeks, until March 27.

More than 130 Indiana high school students will descend on the Indiana Statehouse Rotunda on Friday, Feb. 5, to honor students and veterans who have participated in VETS: Voicing Experiences Through Service. VETS, funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service and administered through IU's Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, supports students, ages 14-21, as they build relationships with veterans and collaboratively record oral histories.

Indiana University's Transportation Services today (Feb. 3) announced a partnership with Zipcar, the world's largest car-sharing service, to bring Zipcar to campus. The service will help the university manage the increasing demand for parking and associated congestion while offering students a convenient, economical and environmentally friendly alternative to owning a car. It is the first car-sharing program in the state.

The Indiana University Department of Theatre and Drama announces a 2010-2011 Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama season filled with multiple award-winning plays.

The two-story atrium in Indiana University Bloomington's Jordan Hall, home to the Department of Biology, is usually filled with displays related to scientific explorations. During ArtsWeek 2010, the atrium will form the backdrop for "Dancescience Lab," a contemporary dance performance designed specifically to relate to the architecture of the atrium and the content of the cases displaying life forms in varying stages of development.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie presented the Sue H. Talbot Distinguished Hoosiers for Higher Education Member Award today (Feb. 2) to Sara Laycock, an HHE community captain in Indianapolis. Also, the $500 Sue H. Talbot HHE Volunteer Award Scholarship was presented to IU Bloomington sophomore Iris Summers.

The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company will make its first appearance in Bloomington at 8 p.m. Feb. 25 at IU Auditorium. Tony Award-winning Jones brings together dance, music, spoken word and video in his commemorative piece, Fondly Do We Hope ... Fervently Do We Pray (named for a line in Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural speech ) celebrating the life and work of President Lincoln. The work was commissioned in 2009 by Ravinia Festival in Illinois and co-commissioned by IU Auditorium.

Cuban culture will come to U.S. soil with "Imagens Del Caribe" ("Images of the Caribbean"), a showcase of Cuban films by producers Gloria Rolando and Gilberto Martinez, showing Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. at the Monroe County Public Library.