Bloom Archives
Tag: Indiana University
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Eric Sandweiss: Professor of ‘Public History’
BY CARMEN SIERING Transitions can be difficult, so in 2002, when Eric Sandweiss was considering a position as the Carmony Chair of History at…
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100 Reasons to Love Bloomington (August Cover Story)
BY CARMEN SIERING WITH BARB BERGGOETZ & ELISABETH ANDREWS, ILLUSTRATIONS BY MIKE CAGLE It’s a wonderful town. It was no easy task honing down the…
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Pacifica Quartet: Valued Mentors at Music School, Renowned Musicians Worldwide
BY STEPHANIE VON HIRSCHBERG Chamber ensembles rarely perform all 16 of Beethoven’s string quartets or all 15 of Shostakovich’s quartets in live, back-to-back concerts,…
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Viruses: Deadly Yet Beautiful (Photo Gallery)
IU Scientists Unravel the Hepatitis B Virus in Search of a Cure BY STEPHANIE VON HIRSCHBERG People tend to think of viruses as harmful,…
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It Takes Math, Physics, & Voodoo to Learn to Make a Violin at IU (Photo Gallery)
BY PAUL BICKLEY “My mother was a violinist,” says Tom Sparks, “and when I was 14, I took her Joseph Guarneri violin apart with a butter…
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Anke Birkenmaier: Latin America Scholar
BY CARMEN SIERING Anke Birkenmaier, who was named director of the Indiana University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in July, laughs when…
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Kenneth L. Roberson: Choreographer
BY JEREMY SHERE Growing up in Thomson, Georgia, in the 1960s, Kenneth L. Roberson had dreams of dancing on Broadway. But finding little opportunity…
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Edwardo Rhodes: Cake Maker
BY NANCY HILLER When City of Bloomington staffer Nancy Hiestand retired at the end of July, friends and colleagues presented her with a cake…
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Indiana University Hopefuls Set Their Sights on Summer Olympic Games
BY MIKE LEONARD, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL D. DICKBERND For athletes who compete in Summer Olympic sports, the quest to get better never ends. They…