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It's a really big shoe!

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It's a really big shoe -- a Jaguar shoe!

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Welcome to the first Fireside Chat with President Adam W. Herbert.

New documentary showcases excellence of IU's Violin Virtuosi

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How do you achieve excellence? That's the question asked in a new documentary about the dedicated young violinists from the String Academy at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Circling Around: Violin Virtuosi, which is being shown this month on more than 200 public television stations throughout the United States, follows the Violin Virtuosi through arduous lessons and rehearsals, challenging master classes and performances, including their tours of France and Japan. The film, produced by RIAX in association with WTIU and the Jacobs School of Music, features interviews with world-renowned String Academy alum Joshua Bell, as well as an original soundtrack by director/composer, Hideki Isoda, as performed by jazz recording artist Sara Caswell.

LIU Events

Pianist Alexander Toradz
March 10, 8 p.m., Campus Auditorium, Northside Hall, South Bend -- Alexander Toradze, the Martin Endowed Professor in Piano at IU South Bend, is universally recognized as a masterful virtuoso in the grand Romantic tradition. He has enriched the Great Russian pianistic heritage with his own unorthodox interpretative conceptions, deeply poetic lyricism and intensely emotional excitement. Tickets are available in advance for $5-$12 and at the door for $7-$15. For more information, contact Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts Box Office: (574) 520-4203.

Spring Ballet 2006

From Bournonville to Balanchine: An Evening of Legendary Ballets

In 1937, legendary songwriter George Gershwin asked renowned choreographer George Balanchine to come to Hollywood to work with him on the score of the Goldwyn Follies. While working on the music, Gershwin collapsed and died of a brain tumor. He was only 38. Thirty-three years later, Balanchine, one of the founders of American ballet, would choreograph the ballet Who Cares? to 16 songs Gershwin composed between 1924 and 1931. Balanchine's creation is one of three dances to be performed during the IU Ballet Theater's annual Spring Ballet.

Tipsheet: Make the most of your next museum experience

IUB graduate student Chad Garcia looks over a case of comic books at the Lilly Library.

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Ever felt lost in an art museum? Not sure what to make of the pieces in front of you? Read these tips to see how you can make the most of your next museum experience.

"The Writer Uprooted": Jewish exiled authors to tell their stories

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Norman Manea was just five years old when his family was deported from its native Romania and sent to a Nazi labor camp in the Ukraine. He spent the next four years living among thousands of Romanian Jews in the rain and cold, witnessing death and horrible suffering. "What I understood then was that crying and hunger, cold and fear belonged to life, not to death," Manea later wrote. "Nothing was more important than survival." Manea is one of 11 Jewish immigrant authors and scholars who will share their experiences about living through tyranny and oppression and being uprooted from their native lands at a landmark conference at Indiana University Bloomington, March 22 to 24. It is believed to be the first gathering of such writers ever held in the nation.

Capturing the beauty of the horse

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A new exhibit at the Indiana University Art Museum celebrates the variety of ways in which Greek and Roman artists captured the beauty of the horse while depicting its role in rituals, games, processions, hunting and warfare, the decorative arts and myth. "Horses in Classical Art" includes over 100 objects depicting horses from the Greek, Etruscan and Roman cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. Museum curator Adriana Calinescu says, "This a highly gratifying exhibition for the community at-large, including all horse lovers, as it showcases this beautiful animal in a variety of rituals and celebrations which allow people to view this creature as a true work of art."

A legacy of honor: Lee H. Hamilton

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Before serving as vice-chairman of the 9-11 Commission, Lee Hamilton represented Indiana's 9th District in the House of Representatives from 1965 to 1998. Throughout his congressional career, Hamilton maintained close contact with Hoosiers by making frequent visits to his district and responding immediately to constituent concerns. "A Legacy of Honor," the first major public exhibition of Hamilton's congressional papers, is now open for viewing at the Lilly Library, Indiana University's library for rare books and manuscripts. The exhibition lays out the major dimensions of Hamilton's congressional career, including his relationship with and service to his constituents, his ever-increasing role in foreign policy and foreign affairs, and his lifelong commitment to making Congress the institution the founding fathers intended.

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The Obscure and Uncertain Semiotics of Fashion

After-school time not a prime time for teen sex

Indiana industrial areas have increased cancer risk

Researchers at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University have found an increase in the reported cases of certain types of cancer in regions of Indiana where organic air pollutants are more common.

Ending "Math Wars"

Prospects for peace in the "Math Wars" are brighter, following a conference here funded by the National Science Foundation and Texas Instruments and hosted by the Mathematical Association of America.

IU endowment ranks in top 15 nationally

Indiana University ranks among America's top 15 public universities in the market value of its endowment, according to a survey released by the National Association of College and University Business Officers in conjunction with TIAA-CREF, a national financial services organization. This is the 15th consecutive year that IU has ranked among the nation's largest public university endowments.

Professors design blueprint for modern conservation

Nearly a decade after a federal law called for bold changes in protecting and managing national wildlife refuges, many refuges still lack adequate monetary and scientific support to gain basic information about the resources they protect. Conservation scientists from Indiana University and five other institutions have assessed progress and proposed solutions to the challenge of managing the refuge system as a cutting-edge source of both conservation and recreation.

Most say psychiatric medications are effective yet refuse them

A majority of Americans believe in the effectiveness of psychiatric medications, but most are reluctant to use these drugs for the treatment of their personal problems, according to a report from the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research headquartered at Indiana University.

Featured Links

You know that spring is on its way when the Brown County Playhouse starts promoting its upcoming season. Tickets go on sale April 3 for the IU summer theatre troupe's 58th season. Any Thursday through Sunday in June, after a day of sightseeing, shopping and dining in Nashville, Indiana, catch Smoke on the Mountain, a family musical going back in time to a 1938 Southern Baptist church, where hilarious, heartwarming tales and familiar gospel hymns combine. Or, if you think you'd like Othello as a rap song, King Lear as a football game or Hamlet at supersonic speed, backwards, The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr, showing in August, is for you. Also on the bill are: Arms and the Man in July and The Woman in Black in September and October.