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The exhibition Playing Fields will open at the School of Fine Arts (SoFA) Gallery at Indiana University on Friday, Oct. 22 and continue through Friday, Nov. 19. Artist Ryan Schneider will give a lecture Oct. 22 at noon in School of Fine Arts, Room 015. An opening reception for the exhibition will be held Oct. 22 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.in the SoFA Gallery. All events are free and open to the public. Playing Fields features the work of Patrick Berran, Melissa Oresky, Ryan Schneider, Olivia Schreiner and Jered Sprecher. These five painters' work and careers represent a spectrum of approaches to the practice of contemporary painting. Through their work and lives, each one is playing a role in developing the current ethos of their field.
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IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs seminar to produce policy articles for Wikipedia
College students usually write their papers for an audience of one: their instructor. But students this fall in an Indiana University Bloomington class will be writing for a much larger group of readers. In a graduate seminar taught by Barry Rubin, a professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, students will produce articles for Wikipedia, the vast online encyclopedia that is written and edited by an online community and visited by hundreds of millions of people a day.
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Fiscal decisions about budgets, taxes and spending should be based on economic science, in much the same way that monetary policy has come to be science-based in recent decades, Indiana University economist Eric Leeper argues in a recent paper. Leeper says U.S. fiscal policy is "too political and too confused to be a player" in ensuring a strong economy. And fiscal confusion, he adds, threatens to undermine the effectiveness of monetary policy.
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At last week's Indiana Public School/University Partnership Mini-Symposium, superintendents and other school leaders from across Indiana traveled to Bloomington to hear research-based information from IU experts. Jonathan Plucker and Terry Spradlin of IU's Center for Evaluation and Education Policy addressed school consolidation, the national "excellence gap," Indiana school funding prospects and likely hot topics in the 2011 session of the state legislature.
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Richmond and Wayne County, Ind., is an area rich in history. Now Richmond history teachers will be able to research the county's roots in industrialization, entrepreneurship, social justice and transportation, thanks to a partnership of IU East, Richmond Community Schools, the Wayne County Historical Museum and the Indiana State Museum that was awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant.
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John McCormick has for the past two decades dedicating his research and teaching to the politics of the European Union. The results include five books, a faculty-student exchange with six European universities and the Midwest Model European Union, which attracts as many as 180 students from across the region each year. Now the Indiana University-Purdue University political science professor has achieved his greatest academic recognition: the award of a Jean Monnet Chair in EU Politics.
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Jayanth Krishnan of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law will serve as project director for an intensive study on the lower judiciary in India. Krishnan is professor of law, Charles L. Whistler Faculty Fellow and head of the India Initiative at the Maurer School's Center on the Global Legal Profession.
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At a time when Americans seem to increasingly distrust each other, an Indiana University professor argues that creating trustworthy institutions -- especially within government -- is a key to rebuilding the nation's social capital. "Restoring trust in government is the first step to restoration of generalized social trust, because we rely on government to insure the trustworthiness of other social institutions," writes Sheila Suess Kennedy, professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI.
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The August 2010 issue of Perspectives on Policy includes an article on an IU anthropology professor whose research lent support to a Belize court decision upholding Maya land rights. Also featured are articles about a book on immigration and race, a state child poverty commission chaired by an IU dean, a graduate program for Vietnamese government employees, research on bias prevention in standardized tests, an IU Northwest service-learning trip and two IU siblings who helped with the Gulf oil cleanup.
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The IU Jacobs School of Music has a new Web site. Check out the new design and learn more about the Jacobs School.
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