Preservation

A close-up shot of the letter K entry in the glossary from the book "Ann Pale Kreyol: An Introductory Course in Haitian Creole."

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…

A man wearing glasses, a well-worn Nature Conservancy T-shirt, and a faded IU baseball hat, kneels amidst the grasses and blooms of the prairie to pull weeds. He is surrounded by plant life.

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To Protect and Preserve

Along a highway about 30 miles outside of Chicago, you can find IU Northwest biology professor Spencer Cortwright weaving through eye-high prairie grass, picking…

Arianna Dormiente (Sleeping Arianna), a second-century Roman sculpture, is part of the Uffizi Gallery Collection in Florence, Italy, to be digitized in 3-D. Photo: IU Communications

Arts & Culture

Great Art Deserves to Live Forever

Thanks to IU’s Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, it can. The Laboratory recently partnered with the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, to create high-resolution 3-D…