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Read the latest issue of IU Home Pages, featuring the spooky research of IUPUI's Karl MacDorman.
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Driving Miss Daisy comes to Brown County Playhouse
Now-Oct. 25, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Brown County Playhouse, 70 S. Van Buren St., Nashville, Ind. -- Set in Atlanta, this heart-warming, humorous play begins in 1948 and spans one of the most tumultuous and hopeful periods in American history.
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Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University faculty member, wins Nobel Prize for Economics
Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrom has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today (Oct. 12). Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington. She is co-founder and senior research director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at IU.
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Nigeria may have achieved 10 consecutive years of democratic rule, but the decade hasn't been peaceful or prosperous for most Nigerians, said Robert Dibie, dean and professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Kokomo, who delivered keynote addresses on the decade of democracy this year at two Nigerian universities.
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In the event of terrorist attack on American soil, what rights and responsibilities do public officials have to protect citizens? How far can officials go in limiting freedoms while still maintaining constitutionally protected rights? What are the potential conflicts between or within agencies that might hinder or complicate government responses? These are some of the questions that students from the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI will face during an Oct. 23 groundbreaking counter-terrorism simulation.
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It's a common refrain: "There's not a dime's worth of difference between the two political parties." But a recent study by Kyle Dodson, a graduate student in Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Sociology, indicates that Americans have put this complaint to rest.
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Lee Hamilton spent 34 years in the U.S. Congress, and he retains a deep affection for the institution -- and frustration that it has sunk so far from what the Founding Fathers intended. He analyzes what went wrong and charts a path for restoring Congress to its rightful place in his new book Strengthening Congress. Hamilton followed up on the themes during a recent visit to Indiana University Bloomington to mark the 10th anniversary of IU's Center on Congress.
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Facing the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Indiana University Maurer School of Law Professor David C. Williams on Sept. 30 urged the federal government not to relax sanctions on the military regime in Burma -- also known as Myanmar -- until demonstrable progress can be shown in constitutional development and human rights.
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Four South Bend-area residents are the first participants in a Sustainability Fellows Program with the Indiana University South Bend Center for a Sustainable Future. Sustainability fellows will include faculty from other institutions, as well as professionals and practitioners involved in sustainability work.
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The Sept. 8, 2009, issue of Perspectives on Policy features a story on student interns who carried out sustainability projects this summer at IU Bloomington. It also includes profiles of two politically active professors and stories about American beliefs about health care reform legislation, NEH-funded teacher institutes at IU, and two well-known figures scheduled to visit IU.
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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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