IU Alumni Magazine

Breath | Light | Stone is a 15-minute film conceived and co-directed by Allen Hahn and Elizabeth Shea, both professors in the IU Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance.

Experts employed and trained by IU are exploring the many aspects and influences of artificial intelligence. There’s the alum and legal scholar talking about AI systems as they relate to…

Studying organ at IU in the late 1960s, Dennis James, BM’74, MM’79, got the inspiration for a musically accompanied silent movie series after taking a film history class. In 1969,…

Jodie Bailey, BA’06, MFA’10, is not just a hat maker. She’s a joy maker. Featured in the Fall 2018 issue of the IU Alumni Magazine, Bailey shared with writer CJ Lotz,…

Johnson Simon, MFA’18, may have been born with cerebral palsy, yet he wasn’t about to let this stop him from bringing his vision to life. The Herron School of Art…

With more than 30 years professional experience as a designer-builder, Nancy R. Hiller, BA’93, MA’96, has run her own custom furniture and cabinetry business in Bloomington, Ind., since the mid-1990s.…

In July 2017, IU alumna Louise Bernard, MA’95, MA’97, was named museum director of the Obama Presidential Center, scheduled to open in 2021 in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side.…

Michael Anthony, BA’90, who is featured in the Summer 2018 issue of the IU Alumni Magazine, got his culinary start in a Bloomington rental house by testing recipes on his roommates before…

As a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine for more than 30 years, Anthony DeCurtis, MA’77, PhD’80, has interviewed dozens of musicians — John Mellencamp, DM Hon’00 (read the 1989 article at…

Michael Adams, linguist and IU English professor, wrote the book on profanity—literally; his 2016 book is titled In Praise of Profanity— though he describes himself as more sarcastic than profane. Featured in…

Here’s a bit of irony: Author Jason Vuic, PhD’05, has become a success by writing about failure. The books he wrote about the joke-of-a-car Yugo, and the comically terrible Tampa…

The writer Meg Cabot’s, BA’91, life could have gone in an entirely different artistic direction. Raised in Bloomington, Ind., the author of The Princess Diaries attended IU, lived in the…