College of Arts and Sciences
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Override: Taking Back Our Lives From the Tech That Controls Us
I’ve ended many nights, as I’m sure you have, lying in bed awash in the glow from my cellphone: bleary-eyed, a strange mixture of emptiness, jealousy, and dread stirring somewhere…
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Meet the IU team saving languages and lives with linguistics
Linguists are in the business of studying language, scientifically. Like anthropologists of the spoken word, they document and examine what we say, how we say it, and why. They use…
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Faculty Star Becomes Planetary Protector
The title of “Planetary Protection Officer” might sound like something straight out of Star Trek—but it’s not. It’s all science, hold the fiction. NASA recently named Lisa Pratt, IU astrobiologist…
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Culture Keepers
On the southern coast of Mexico’s isthmus, in the centuries-old city of Juchitán, a child dips his hand in paint and presses his palm against a stone wall—one of the…
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Studying the Environment—in a Kayak!
Between 2013 and 2016, Columbus, Ind., native Bryan Brown, BA’78, kayaked more than 7,000 total miles as a way to celebrate some of the most magnificent and embattled waterways on…