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Jacobs At 100: Celebrating A Century Of Beautiful Music

When Barzille Winfred Merrill accepted the position as head of the IU Department of Music in 1919, he hoped to create a music school…

Black-and-white drawing of a building, a baseball player, a net, and other ephemera along with an interlocking "I" and "U" with a star on it.

Who Is KDVD? An IU History Mystery

We don’t know who KDVD is. We don’t know what KDVD stands for. But we may have KDVD to thank for Indiana University’s most…

IU’s Latino Legacy

In 1973, the Office of Latino Affairs was established at IU Bloomington. With Horacio Lewis serving as director, four principles guided the OLA’s work:…

Decoding Commencement

For what is believed to be the first time in IU history, university officials were compelled to cancel Commencement festivities for the class of…

5 Facts of IU Commencements Past

Much has changed over the course of IU’s 200-year history, including the largest and most symbolic of the university’s ceremonies—Commencement. With historical research and…

IU Football, Preston E. Eagleson, and the 1885 Civil Rights Act

The Eagleson name is familiar to many at Indiana University and in Monroe County, as the prominent African American family is riddled with “firsts”…

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1 Vote That Made All the Difference

The very existence of Indiana University all came down to a tiebreaker. The state of Indiana’s first constitution, in 1816, called for “a general…

20 IU Firsts

Since 1820, Indiana University faculty, staff, students, and alumni have been making their mark on the world. Here we celebrate some of IU’s greatest…

Collage of five IU Bloominton mascots: Pictured left is an illustration of a man wearing a crimson cowboy hat, white "I" turtleneck sweater, candy-striped blazer, and crimson pants; pictured top middle is a close-up, black-and-white photo of a bulldog's face; pictured bottom middle is a black-and-white photo of the bulldog on the sidelines of an IU football game; pictured top right is a black-and-white photo of an IU cheerleader hugging a costumed bison mascot; pictured bottom right is an emoji of an IU fan with candy-striped face paint and wearing an IU ball cap.

10 Mascots That Weren’t

Just prior to the 2015 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, The Washington Post got into the March Madness spirit by creating a mascot emoji for…

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3 Campus Maps From IU’s Past

Ah, the first day of class . . . Asking directions. Wending across campus. Charting a roundabout course to a building you only vaguely…

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7 Women Who Built IU

Throughout Indiana University’s 200 years, women have been groundbreaking researchers, influential administrators, renowned artists, and cornerstones of the campus community. But their names may…

The limstone Rose Well House is pictured on a sunny, fall evening behind a tree of red foliage.

5 Little-Known Facts About the Rose Well House

IU Bloomington’s Rose Well House is best known as a campus smooch spot, but there’s much more to its story. Here are five facts…