Bloom Archives
Category: Science & Education
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200-Year History of Bloomington Focus of Mathers Museum Exhibit
January 2018 marked the start of Bloomingtonâs bicentennial year, and in September, Indiana University kicked off a yearlong series of events celebrating its own…
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An IU Studentâs Adventure Living With Mongolian Reindeer Herders
The closest most of us will ever come to a reindeer is seeing one in a petting zoo. But reindeer were an integral part…
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Ancient Lives Lets You Become a Papyrologist
Items buried within landfills certainly take their sweet time to break downâbut thatâs not necessarily a bad thing. More than 100 years ago, researchers…
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Real Men Still Reading To Bloomington Kids
Since it started six years ago, the Monroe County Community School Corporationâs (MCCSC) Real Men Read program has offered some 875 kindergarten students per…
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People Adopt Kinds of Dogs They Didnât Know They Wanted (PHOTO GALLERY)
Itâs not often that graduate student research makes headlines in outlets as varied as Martha Stewart Living and the financial media platform Bloomberg. But…
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Citizen Scientist: Look Out for Garlic Mustard
Garlic mustard isnât the only botanical troublemaker thriving in our fields and forests, but itâs among the most insidious. Deceptively small at first, the…
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Art-Based Learning in Schools Is Goal of Eskanazi Museum
The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University will reopen this fall. When it does, guests will see four new centers…


