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The spring 2011 issue of the Jacobs School of Music's IU Music commemorates the school's beginnings with a bold new opera exploring the drama of Vincent van Gogh's private vision and the extremes to which it drove him. Go behind the scenes and discover the process that inspired the creation of this work in homage to one of the greatest artists of all time.
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The inaugural Summer Festival of the Arts offers 113 days of arts programming this summer, many of the events free and family-friendly, at venues across the Bloomington campus including IU Auditorium, IU Cinema, the Jacobs School of Music, the Lilly Library, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, the Grunwald Gallery of Art (formerly School of Fine Arts Gallery) and the Lee Norvelle Theatre & Drama Center. One highlight of the festival will be a special performance by violinist Joshua Bell with the Festival Orchestra, with Michael Stern conducting.
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Effective leadership produces organizational success, Sierra Club study finds
Alexis de Tocqueville observed nearly 200 years ago that American civic associations served as "schools of democracy" where members learned the skills of citizenship. A recent study of local Sierra Club groups by Indiana University faculty member Matthew Baggetta and several colleagues suggests that civic associations are more effective if they embrace that Tocquevillian role.
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Mention flooding and images of homes and other buildings half submerged in water come to mind. While there are programs to mitigate such damage, little has been done to help communities lessen erosion from high water, the kind of flood damage that actually costs the most and affects the most people. A team made up of experts from IUPUI and federal and state agencies is working to change that in Indiana.
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What if you could collect air contaminants from your own backyard and relay the data directly to experts who would use it to influence environmental law, to understand how weather affects pollution distribution, or to assist agencies in understanding less prominent pollutants? A research project by three IU Northwest faculty members will attempt to involve citizens in these ways and more.
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States have taken the lead in developing energy policies in the U.S., experimenting with a variety of approaches while the federal government has remained deadlocked. Sanya Carley of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs examines the state-level policies and assesses their effectiveness for meeting energy and policy goals in the journal Review of Policy Research.
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The Program in International Human Rights Law (PIHRL) at the IU School of Law-Indianapolis is joining a select group of organizations that have been awarded special consultative status with the United Nations. The designation enables participants in the program to provide the U.N. with research, position papers and reports and to make speeches or 'interventions' on the floor at U.N. proceedings.
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Despite growing concern about the effects of media violence on children, violent television shows and movies continue to be produced and marketed to them. An Indiana University research study concludes that violence doesn't add anything to their enjoyment of such programs and their characters.
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IU geographer Tom Evans and colleagues at IU Bloomington's Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change are leading a study of how interactions between people, their social and governmental institutions and the environment influence the sustainability of urban ecosystems. The study includes a survey of urban land management in Bloomington.
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The May 2011 issue of Perspectives on Policy highlights the creation of an Office of Sustainability at IUPUI. It also includes articles on a report on the future of the auto manufacturing industry, IU's annual Electronic Waste Collection Days, an ambitious project to explore policy choices for Indiana, a campus lecture by education historian Diane Ravitch, a conference on youth with disabilities and the juvenile justice system, and a law professor's book on the use and abuse of habeas corpus.
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Get involved in making IU Bloomington an "edible campus." This initiative demonstrates how sustainability, food security, and environmental quality can be linked through innovative urban design to produce food in a challenging urban setting, demonstrating ways to weave productive planting in urban spaces without diminishing their utility or functionality.
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