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Having received a $40.6 million gift and a new name, the IU Jacobs School of Music is looking toward the beginning of its second century in 2010. During festivities held in November at the Musical Arts Center in Bloomington, the school revisited its illustrious history through this video featuring performance footage of celebrated alumni such as Joshua Bell and interviews with school luminaries such as Charles Webb, David Baker and Sylvia McNair.

Keeping alive the lore of Ballymenone

Photo by: Chris Meyer

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In his new book, The Stars of Ballymenone (Indiana University Press, 2006), IU Bloomington Professor and renowned folklorist Henry Glassie celebrates and keeps alive the legacies of those individuals who were considered stars in the tiny village of Ballymenone in Northern Ireland. Among them was the late musician/storyteller Peter Flanagan, who is pictured on the book's cover and was the first person Glassie met upon arriving in Ballymenone 34 years ago. Flanagan is featured on a CD that accompanies the book. Listen here to Flanagan performing the traditional Irish song If I Was a Blackbird.

Events at Indiana University

See art from the private collection of John & Norma Thompson on exhibit now through April 2, various times, Herron School of Art and Design galleries, Indianapolis -- Visitors to the Herron Galleries will be treated to a sampling from the private contemporary art collection of John and Norma Thompson. The collection includes the works of African American artists Romare Bearden, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Norman Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, Sam Gilliam, Richard Hunt, Elizabeth Catlett and more.

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Japan-in-America: The Turn of the Twentieth Century

It's an exhibit of artifacts "not meant to be saved" -- old postcards and magazines hidden in attics and sold thoughtlessly at garage sales and flea markets or on the Internet. The artifacts, collected over 13 years of treasure hunting, tell a unique story featured in Japan-in-America: The Turn of the Twentieth Century, a new exhibit opening at Indiana University Bloomington's Mathers Museum of World Cultures on Sunday (April 2). The exhibit highlights America's portrayal of Japan in newly emerging forms of media at a time when Japan's emergence as a global power captivated and troubled the imagination of Americans.

Singular sensation: IU Theatre to perform "A Chorus Line"

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George Pinney first directed A Chorus Line 17 years ago, in his first year teaching at Indiana University. Several members of the production's cast have gone on to very successful musical theater careers in New York and as members of national and international touring companies. A Tony nominee in 2001 for his choreography of Blast!, Pinney believes that the current group of IU students who will tackle the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical next month at the Lee Norville Theatre and Drama Center, has similar "huge, huge potential for success."

IU Southeast to open annual graduating BFA exhibition

This is a mezzotint by Diana Hatchitt, one of the graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts candidates at IU Southeast. Her degree will be in printmaking.

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IU Southeast and the department of Fine Arts will open the annual graduating BFA exhibition on April 11, 2006, with a reception on April 20. The exhibition, entitled "Room 26: Two guys, a girl, and a printmaker," will feature the creative work of Robby Davis, Joe Vance, and Diana Hatchitt all from New Albany, and Kiersten Nash of Louisville.

Beauty amid chaos

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In Baghdad, every day is a heartwrenching struggle. The stench of death is in the air and on the streets. Many of the best musicians fled years ago, and the rebuilding process in the wake of Saddam Hussein's fall is an uphill battle. Iraqi native and IU-trained cellist Karim Wasfi is providing hope to the war-torn nation's people through classical music, which he says reminds them of their resilience and ability to survive. "The cello sound is better and more effective than car bombs, assassinations or suicide bombers," he says. Read more about Wasfi, who was recently featured in the New York Times and on MSNBC.com, in this article from the current issue of IU Music.

First steps: Baroque dance introduced to a new generation

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In its 30-year history, the New York Baroque Dance Company has been embraced by music and dance lovers worldwide and credited with the revival of 18th-century ballet. Its members have taken steps, literally, to ensure that future generations experience this influential style of dance. As part of that effort to reach out to future generations, the troupe is now partnering with music and dance students at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. It is engaged in a two-week residency at the school, which will culminate with a performance with the IU Baroque Orchestra under the direction of IU violin professor Stanley Ritchie on Sunday (April 2) at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in downtown Bloomington.

Aspiring artists to display works at IU Art Museum

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Each spring the Indiana University Art Museum celebrates the graduation of a new group of master of fine arts candidates from IU Bloomington's Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts through a series of special exhibitions. Presented in three consecutive group shows, these events not only recognize these talented students' years of study, but also allow the Bloomington community one last opportunity to view their works before they embark on their professional careers. All of the exhibitions, which are scheduled from now until May 7, will be on view in the museum's Special Exhibitions Gallery.

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Scientists discover hominid cranium in Ethiopia

A team of scientists conducting palaeoanthropological field research at Gona, in Ethiopia, have discovered a significantly complete cranium of a human ancestor estimated to be Middle Pleistocene in age.

Kelley School receives gift from Zebra Technologies for RFID lab

Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID), silicon-embedded "smart tags," is generally expected to be used right alongside Universal Product Codes as an enhancement to product tracking capabilities for the foreseeable future. Indiana University's Kelley School of Business was the first U.S. business school to create a working RFID educational model or lab two years ago. The recent gift of an RFID printer from Zebra Technologies will allow the Kelley School's undergraduate and graduate students to model the complete life cycle of a tag.

Journalism students learn while covering the Final Four

Among the media converging at this year's NCAA men's Final Four in Indianapolis will be a group of 50 college sportswriters who will be involved in a competition of their own. The IU School of Journalism and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association have jointly organized a sportswriting seminar and scholarship competition that will begin Thursday (March 30) at the Bloomington campus.

Embryos tell story of Earth's earliest animals

Photo by: Rudolf and Elizabeth Raff

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Much of what scientists learn about the evolution of Earth's first animals will have to be gleaned from spherical embryos fossilized under very specific conditions, according to a new study by Indiana University Bloomington and University of Bristol researchers in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Faculty, student efforts lead to "Variations on Blackness”

Crash, a provocative film that received the Oscar this year for best picture, depicted the sometimes volatile intersections of race relations in Los Angeles and, ultimately, the United States. A major conference next week organized by Indiana University will examine the different shades of race and highlight the ways in which this difficult subject can be discussed more broadly.

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"The smallest feline is a masterpiece," wrote Leonardo da Vinci. The biggest cats are, too. That's why the Exotic Feline Rescue Center near Terre Haute, Ind., was founded in the 1990s by Joe Taft, who moved there in 1991 with three big cats: a leopard named Kiki, and a couple of badly abused tigers, BC and Molly. A new collection of photographs taken by Stephen McCloud and published in a new book, Saving the Big Cats: The Exotic Feline Rescue Center, by Indiana University Press is a tribute to Taft's rescue work. McCloud began photographing the big cats, whose number has grown to more than 170, in 2001.