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Read about two of the Intensive Freshman Seminars offered at IU Bloomington this summer in the latest edition of IU Home Pages.
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From the Hoosier Village to the new North End Zone, Indiana University football kicked off the beginning of the 125th season Thursday evening, Sept. 3, 2009, at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington. The Hoosiers took on Eastern Kentucky, defeating them 19-13. Relive the sights and sounds of the activities surrounding the game in this video slide show.
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T. Boone Pickens to speak at IU
Sept. 18, 10 a.m., IU Auditorium, 1211 E. Seventh St., Bloomington -- Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens is bringing his mission to wean the nation off of foreign oil to Indiana University. His address, which is open to students, faculty and guests, will be called "America's Foreign Oil Dependency Crisis." Pickens is the founder of a self-funded grassroots campaign called the "Pickens Plan." His plan includes a call for the nation to invest in wind and solar energy, rebuild the nation's electrical grid and replace gasoline with natural gas in cars and trucks.
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Gerald Henderson Doty, a violinist and former assistant professor of music and Marching Hundred band director at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, will turn 100 in his Missoula, Mont., home on Oct. 3. While a group of Suzuki students will perform in Doty's honor on that day, Doty's 100th birthday will be celebrated again during the University of Montana's Homecoming parade Oct. 10.
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Bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert -- most famous for her book Eat, Pray, Love -- will present her views on "Traveling the Road of Life" on Sept. 28 at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). The event is free and open to the public.
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Spinning and twirling in the air -- some resembling kites on a windy day, others moving through space like carefully manipulated kaleidoscopes -- the colorful, geometric sculptures of Morton C. Bradley, Jr. (1912-2004) adorn three of Indiana University's buildings as permanent installations. Now, five of the whimsical structures will hit the road, destined for warmer climates: The Indiana University Campus Art Collection has loaned five of the sculptures to the Children's Museum of Phoenix.
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Composer Clint Needham finds endless inspiration in the world around him. Needham's award-winning classical compositions have come to him as the result of everything from last year's Presidential election to his experiences with nature. A doctoral fellow in composition at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, Needham was recently the recipient of a 2009 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Concert Music Composer Award, his second honor from ASCAP (in addition, he was twice nominated for honorable mentions by the organization).
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Driving Miss Daisy concludes the 61st season of Indiana University's Brown County Playhouse. The performance features two of the Midwest's best-known actors in the main roles. Racism and separate ethnic communities are still the norm in post World War II Georgia. Daisy, a 72-year-old Jewish widow resides in Atlanta. After she crashes her car, Daisy's son hires an African American chauffer, Hoke, to drive and look after her. Their prickly relationship faces many challenges during their 25 years of driving through America's tumultuous history ultimately evolving into true friendship.
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Even before they were named members of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music's Kuttner Quartet, Yotam Baruch, Danbi Um, Bella Hristova and Rose Armbrust had experience playing beautiful music together. All four were part of a select group of Jacobs students who performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., last February.
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In the Sept. 2 issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on Global Gifts, a new fair trade store in downtown Bloomington; a NASA astronaut's request for an IU fight song wakeup call in honor of his late brother, David C. Ford, an IU alumnus and former state senator; Talley's Folly, a play presented by the Bloomington Playwright's Project and The Jewish Theatre of Bloomington; a public art project celebrating the downtown square, "Interpreting the Square;" Coffeehouse Nights at the IU Art Museum; and new season announcements from the IU Jacobs School of Music and IU Southwest's Ogle Center.
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Current graduate students serve as Emissaries for Graduate Student Diversity by sharing their experiences at Indiana University. Emissaries blog about life in Bloomington and are available to answer prospective students' questions personally via e-mail. Meet the 2009-2010 Emissaries.
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