That’s Minda Douglas, director of the IU Kokomo Art Gallery, atop shipping boxes for this photo taken by Anne-Marie Damler, director of communications and marketing at IU Kokomo. The gallery will be showing the work of Mexican artist Lucia Maya at an exhibition beginning April 6. To read more about the upcoming exhibit or to see some of the works of the gallery director online, go to this Web site:
http://www.iuk.edu/artgallery/index.html

Photo by Paul Martens

IU senior Stephanie Mast of Goshen, who is also on the university’s rowing team, took the opportunity to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ 99th birthday anniversary at a Read Across America Day event March 3. The Campus Children's Center's older preschool class of 20 children, ages 4 through kindergarten, invited several IU students and athletes, along with community representatives, parents and alums, to come read to them. Pictured with Mast are students Lucas Adams (center) and Andrew Goodrum.


Photo by Paul Martens

IU’s interim president, Gerald Bepko, and his wife, Jean, (at the podium) were hosted at a welcome reception at the IU Art Museum in Bloomington Feb. 27 by Fred Eichhorn, president of the IU Board of Trustees, and his wife, Judy, on behalf of the trustees. Faculty, staff, students and townspeople attended the event. Bepko, the long-time chancellor of IUPUI, assumed the interim presidency Jan. 1 and will serve until a new president takes office.