From Cream and Crimson to Grammy Gold
Indiana University is home to one of the nation’s most prestigious schools of music, the Jacobs School of Music. So it may come as…
Arts & Culture
The Top 5 Rock Albums of All Time (According to this IU Music Prof)
In 1982, Glenn Gass became the first professor in the United States to offer a course in the history of rock ‘n’ roll within…
R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.: An Alum’s Ticket Memory
Ross Fazekas, BS’88, has been attending music concerts since 1982. He keeps every ticket stub and proudly displays hundreds of them in poster-size frames…
Screen Savor
“If the ancient Greeks had invented cinema, they’d have a temple like this,” director Peter Weir mused during his visit to the Indiana University…
Six Wonders of the Lilly Library
IU Bloomington’s Lilly Library is home to an impressive collection of rare books and manuscripts, as well as other items that spark curiosity and…
Dancing in Air
When Anita DeCastro, BA’09, MA’14, is on the pole, she says she feels invincible and powerful. You can see the strength in her arms…
Lights, Camera, Hoosiers: IU alumni return to Bloomington to film a rom-com
In late January 2016, a group of IU alumni returned to Bloomington, Ind., with cameras and a production crew in tow. For three weeks,…
The Force is Strong with This Hoosier
Seeing 1977’s Star Wars changed David West Reynolds’s life forever. “(It) burst upon my imagination like nothing else I had ever experienced,” explains Reynolds, BA’88, of New Albany, Ind. “What bowled me over…
Superhero of Fun
With a degree in criminal justice and experience in martial arts, it just makes sense that Jake Pierle, BA’14, became a superhero. When his…
Great Art Deserves to Live Forever
Thanks to IU’s Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, it can. The Laboratory recently partnered with the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, to create high-resolution 3-D…