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The "Campus Link" newsletter keeps parents informed about news at IU Bloomington. Read the latest issue. (PDF format).
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Join Alice Rivlin, a Brookings Institution scholar and former vice chair of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, in conversation with Bill McGregor, a SPEA professor at IU whose research focuses on public policy, organizational structure and management practice, in this November 2005 edition of IU Home Pages' "Conversations online." Rivlin, who spent part of her youth in Bloomington, is the daughter of the late Allan Mitchell, who served as chair of the IUB Department of Physics.
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Summer Music Festival Continued...
Now through Aug. 12, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington -- A celebration of all things musical! Event highlights for the rest of the Summer are free outdoor band concerts on Wednesday, July 19 and Wednesday, July 26 at 7 p.m. on the Musical Arts Center Lawn; the Festival Orchestra conducted by the dynamic Michael Stern in the Musical Arts Center on Thursday, July 20 at 8 p.m.; and the opening of The Mikado in the IU Opera Theater on Friday, July 28 at 8 p.m.
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Discover IU at the State Fair
It's all about IU for an entire day at the Indiana State Fair. On Aug. 10 on Expo Hall Street, IU will celebrate its commitment to the Hoosier state with hands-on booths, giveaways, pep rallies and performances by the university's leading artists and performers. Several stages will showcase the best of IU's fine arts, music and dance, and the university will have a continual presence on IU Boulevard throughout the duration of the fair, to be held from Aug. 9 to 20. What's more, the brand-new IU Summer Music Festival Jazz Orchestra, directed by Indiana living legend David Baker, will help kick off the fair's 150th anniversary with a special concert on Aug. 8.
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Leslie Sharpe has something most artists don't -- a clean table. The surface of the large table in her studio at the Hope School of Fine Arts is completely clear. The studio walls are mostly bare, too. In fact, the whole space is surprisingly neat. The reason is this: "My work," Sharpe says, "is less and less material. At this point, it seems almost invisible."
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These days, Nicole Parker is a bona fide celebrity. With roles on a popular television show and in an upcoming New York City play with Martin Short, she's nearing the top of Hollywood's ladder of success. But before the IU alumna joined Mad TV, before she co-founded Waterwell Productions, before she performed with Boom Chicago … there was Ben and Jerry's.
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At the turn of the decade, IU's renowned School of Music was struggling financially. A budget deficit of close to $2 million threatened to overpower the model established by former IU President Herman B Wells and former deans Wilfred Bain and Charles Webb. Gwyn Richards took over as interim dean following the departure of David Woods in December 1999 and was appointed dean on a permanent basis in July 2001. Five years later, in an interview with Indiana Alumni Magazine editor Mike Wright, Richards reflected on the current status of the school and its future.
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Here she comes...the newly crowned Miss Indiana, IU graduate student Betsy Uschkrat. The soprano, who is pursuing a master's degree in vocal performance at the IU Jacobs School of Music, will represent the Hoosier state in next year's Miss America pageant, to be held in January. Uschkrat not only sings her heart out, she also acts with it. A native of Houston, she is the founder of Heart and Soul, an organization that works to feed Indiana's hungry.
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Indiana University's Lilly Library will be home to the world's largest collection of mechanical puzzles, library officials announced today (July 19). Highly regarded for its variety and scope, the collection includes items dating from the eighteenth century. Puzzle enthusiast and author Jerry Slocum has announced his intention to donate his prized collection of more than 30,000 puzzles and nearly 4,000 puzzle-related books to the Lilly Library. Beginning Aug. 3, approximately 400 of the puzzles will be on display in a refurbished exhibition space named in Slocum's honor.
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Are you tuned into WFIU? If not, read the transcripts of recent radio commentaries given by Indiana University President Adam W. Herbert. In his latest commentary, he talks about Nathan McAninch and his passionate interest in finance, which led him to the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. "A native of West Lafayette, Nathan is not your typical business student," Herbert says. "He has a pilot's license and has lived in monasteries in both India and Nepal. As a world traveler, he knows a world-class business school when he sees it."
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