Novel Ideas

When Will Cooke, BA’94, MS’95, MD’01, an idealistic young physician just out of medical training, set up practice in the small rural community of Austin, Ind., he had no idea…

Will Cooke, BA’94, MS’95, MD’01, had no idea what he was in for when he moved back home to southern Indiana after completing his medical residency in Muncie, Ind. In…

In 2012, Lloyd Devereux Richards, JD’80, published Stone Maidens, a crime thriller about a serial killer on the loose in southern Indiana.

Eleven years after publishing his book Stone Maidens, Lloyd Devereux Richards, JD’80, became a best-selling author on Amazon.

Lin’s Uncommon Life, written by Scott Shackelford, BA’05, and Emily Castle, follows Elinor Ostrom from childhood to winning a Nobel Prize.

Lin’s Uncommon Life, written by Scott Shackelford and Emily Castle, follows Elinor Ostrom from childhood to winning a Nobel Prize.

Second-generation international alumna, Waed Athamneh, PhD’14, returned to her native Jordan to gather heart-wrenching stories from women who escaped civil war in Syria.

Read the story of Fatima, a mother who escaped a war zone, in an excerpt from Defiance in Exile: Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan by Waed Athamneh.

Young Richard Antoine White and his mother don’t have a key to a room or a house. Sometimes they have shelter, but they never have a place to call home.…

In 1991, Pearl Jam’s debut album, Ten catapulted the little-known Seattle-based band into superstardom. Then, at the height of their popularity, the band shunned the spotlight, refusing to shoot videos or do…

Jonathan Cohen, BAJ’98, had always been a Pearl Jam fan, so he made it his goal when he got a job at Billboard magazine to interview the band. “I was…

At 6’5” and 300 lbs., Richard Antoine White, MM’99, DM’12, cuts an imposing figure, one more akin to an NFL offensive lineman than a member of a world-class orchestra. While…