Photo by Chris Meyer
Amidst handshakes and applause,
the platform party is greeted by well-wishers during the
inaugural recessional at the IU Auditorium. Grand Marshal
Edwin Marshall (foregound) is followed by President Adam
W. Herbert, Frederick Eichhorn Jr., president of the IU
Board of Trustees, Stephen Ferguson, vice president of the
Board of Trustees (greeting Mrs. Herbert), and trustee Stephen
Backer. A public reception in the lobby followed the ceremony
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What has been known in its planning
stages as the Multidisciplinary
Science Building Phase I will be named Simon Hall after
its benefactors, and a ceremonial groundbreaking is planned
June 3 in Bloomington. In Indianapolis, one research team
at the School of Medicine is investigating the efficacy of
"tailor-made" breast cancer treatments,
while another has identified a gene with a statistical link
to the disease of alcoholism.
Guggenheims and creative
capital
Four Bloomington faculty have
received prestigious Guggenheim
Fellowships, and five at the Herron School of Art have
been awarded inaugural Efroymson
Contemporary Arts Fellowships.
More than $248 million in gifts
and grants in the last fiscal year placed IU among the top
1.5 percent of all colleges and universities in the nation
in the amount of support it receives from the private sector
Open the cyber pages of one of IU’s finest publications,Research & Creative Activity, which is Home Pages’ "Web pick of the week." Read about the fortune-telling powers of shipwrecks, volcanoes in Iceland and the impassioned research of an IU South Bend sociology major.
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Photo By Chris Meyer
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The inauguration of the 17th president of Indiana University
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IU’s finest celebrations are
quickly approaching. The spring commencement circuit begins
on the Bloomington campus May 8.
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