Undoing Time
On April 25, 2016, Darryl Pinkins was released from prison after serving nearly 25 years for crimes he didn’t commit. During the long journey…
IMAGINE magazine
One man. Two discoveries. 130 million years in the making.
It was a (pre)historic year for IU paleobotanist David Dilcher. In August 2015, Dilcher and a team of European scientists identified what could be…
Food Fighter
In terms of food, if we can get to 2050 without screwing up the planet, we’re probably good forever. Jack Bobo says this so…
A Cause for Faith & Fashion in HIV Care
When Faith arrived with her mother at the pediatric ward of the Kenyan hospital closest to the village where they lived, the 4-year-old was…
Turning the Tide on Plastic Waste
A scoop of dirt from a farm in the small Indiana town of Rossville may contain some of the answers to our world’s plastic…
Fighting Fire With … Chemistry
Take two sofas—one manufactured today and another in 1970—and light them on fire. If you did, IU Southeast student and firefighter Josh Scalf says…
Improving Children’s Health, One Game at a Time
Typically, the children play soccer on packed dirt, not grass. And the balls are sometimes rags taped together. Sometimes, they’re just tape. Those were…
Saving Lives With Geography
Pop quiz: What weather-related phenomenon causes the most deaths each year? Did you guess storms? Blizzards? Floods? Chances are, you didn’t start with “heat.”…
Bringing Solar Power to Kenya
Boniface Njuguna thought, “I know how I can help.” The IU South Bend graduate had a bright idea for solving a dual problem in…