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A higher education expert and four-time college president has listed Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) among the nation's top 25 "Best Neighbor" urban colleges and universities.

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Producer, director and documentarian Peter Davis became deeply involved in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa 20 years ago. Davis has produced more than 30 full-length documentary films on social and political issues, including South Africa: the White Laager, a history of Afrikaner nationalism; Generations of Resistance, an historic account of African rebellion against white rule up to the student uprising of 1976; Winnie Mandela and Remember Mandela, which was shown on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta in 1988. When Davis visited the Bloomington campus in April, Patrick O'Meara, dean of international programs at IU and a native South African, talked with him in this 2004 conversation about South Africa's history and re-birth.

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James Brown

Musical icon and funk revolutionary James Brown to perform
Sept. 19, 8 p.m., IU Auditorium, Bloomington -- James Brown will bring his electrifying stage show to the IU Auditorium. In his more than 50 years delighting crowds across the globe as "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business," Brown has been responsible for more than 116 R&B hits, including such classics as Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, It's a Man's Man's Man's World and I Got You (I Feel Good). The often imitated but never duplicated sound of Brown's horn-driven funk laid the groundwork for the decades of soul, funk and hip-hop that followed. Now in his 70s, Brown is still as active as ever, recording with platinum artists Black Eyed Peas, headlining Australia's Good Vibrations Festival and playing to a crowd of 80,000 as one of the headliners of Ireland's recent Oxegen Festival.

Hands 'on' the art

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As a young girl growing up in Crozon (Brittany, France), IU Bloomington graduate student Marie Clapot rarely went to museums or performing art shows. The reason: her father suffered from a degenerative eye disease that eventually caused him to go blind, and she, herself, is afflicted with the genetic condition. (She is currently partially sighted.) Today, fueled by a desire to make art more accessible for people with disabilities, she has helped design and coordinate a new program at the IU Art Museum that allows visually impaired patrons to touch and feel selected objects from the museum's collection.

Score one for musical scores

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An IU School of Informatics researcher is leading efforts to develop technology for large-scale online databases that will benefit music scholars and musicians. Donald A. Byrd, visiting associate professor, and two British colleagues have been awarded a $395,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund the first phase of MeTAMuSE (Methodologies and Technologies for Advanced Musical Score Encoding). "The basic source material for musicology and for most musical performances, at least in classical music, exists primarily as notated scores," said Byrd.

Two centers, one door

The Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center and the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center are neighbors and partners in promoting the arts and diversity at IU Bloomington. Since 2002, both have shared the same facility, generated professional-caliber artistic offerings and developed a strong bond that has allowed them to improve audiences' awareness and understanding of differing cultures. "Sharing a building gives everyone the opportunity to interact more than ever before and constantly share ideas while passing each other in the hallways. There are no walls or divisions keeping us from each other anymore," says Charles Sykes, executive director of the African American Arts Institute and Multicultural Initiatives.

Classics, new and familiar faces make up Jacobs School season

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The IU Jacobs School of Music will continue a longstanding tradition of opening its doors to the world's most illustrious musicians and presenting both new and legendary pieces of music when it kicks off its 2006-2007 season this month. The season begins with a flourish. Internationally renowned orchestra conductor and composer Stanislaw Skrowaczewski will direct the IU Philharmonic, the school's premier orchestral ensemble, in a performance of Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major, "Romantic," on Wednesday (Sept. 13) at the Musical Arts Center in Bloomington.

Dispelling the gypsy myth

When Brad Coffman set out to spend a semester studying in Budapest, Hungary, he didn't know much about the Roma people of Europe beyond the myths that surround them. He thought of these people -- who are often referred to as "gypsies" -- as romantic and mysterious. After his experience in Budapest, Coffman proposed a documentary film project about the differences between the gypsy myth and the social, educational and human rights issues facing Roma people. He was one of two recent graduates to win the Indiana University School of Journalism's Ross Hazeltine Traveling Scholarship.

Jazz, jams and jabberwocky at IU Southeast

The Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center at IU Southeast recently announced its 2006-2007 season, a lineup of 21 exciting shows and 68 performances from across the nation that cross entertainment genres and appeal to diverse audiences. The new season, underwritten by Clark Memorial Hospital, includes the introduction of Jazz at the Ogle, a two-day weekend event. Jazz at the Ogle will feature the distinctive music of jazz musician Curtis Stigers on Oct. 6, followed by a huge jam session on Oct. 7 with veteran jazz musicians from across the Midwest. The new season also features the return of the popular Chase Children's Series, offering school children 10 different performances, from song and dance to mime and storytelling.

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Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen to visit IU Bloomington Sept. 19-21

Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel Laureate in economics, will visit Indiana University Bloomington on Sept. 19-21 and will deliver two public and free lectures sponsored by the William T. Patten Foundation.

Jim Barnes appointed chair of EPA’s Environmental Financial Advisory Board

A. James Barnes, professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University and adjunct professor in the School of Law, became the new chair of the Environmental Financial Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last month.

Bennett Bertenthal appointed IU COAS dean

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Indiana University President Adam W. Herbert announced today (Sept. 1) that Bennett I. Bertenthal, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Chicago, has been chosen to fill the position of dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the Bloomington campus.

Inaugural IU Circle of Life Mini Marathon coming up on Sept. 9

Final arrangements are being made for the first Circle of Life IU Mini Marathon presented by Old National Bank. In addition to the inaugural running events on Saturday, Sept. 9, other activities that weekend offer additional opportunities to join in the student effort to raise money for a scholarship for cancer survivors.

Path to school reform filled with possibility, challenge

When Indiana University Professor Jesse Goodman conducted his research into the K-12 education at Harmony School in Bloomington, Ind., he saw students who were intellectually engaged and challenged. Working individual and collectively, students were given a voice about matters that involved their daily life in school and relationships with others. His research at Harmony resulted in two books, with his latest--Reforming Schools: Working within a Progressive Tradition during Conservative Times (SUNY Press, July 2006)--now available online and in most bookstores.

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Kathy Bernson started her heartfelt path to being a publicly prominent host to visitors in the Louisville area as a student reporter in Bloomington. Master of numbers, aspiring real-estate developer and would-be sportscaster Gregory Sprague built the foundation for his career at IU and continues to keep the Hoosier spirit alive in the Golden State. Lawyer J. Arnold Feldman's efforts to achieve social justice were never limited to what he did from 9 to 5. Meet these and other IU alumni.