By Melissa Dombrowski, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, History Since 1924, Riley Hospital for Children has treated hundreds of thousands of children as part of the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis. From 1921 onward, Indiana University’s Board of Trustees has worked in collaboration with the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association (known today as the… Read more »
By Marissa Moss, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2019, History Read the first part of this blog post here: https://blogs.iu.edu/bicentennialblogs/2018/05/17/a-history-of-the-ovpdema-overseas-study-programs-part-1/ Each customized overseas trip through OVPDEMA runs for two or three weeks with each day planned out with activities related to the culture of the travel destination. In the case of Ghana in 2002, this trip… Read more »
By Marissa Moss, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2019, History In recent years, Indiana University has made a conscious effort to improve the study abroad experience for students from underrepresented populations through the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs (OVPDEMA) overseas study programs. Since the very first trip in 2002, these… Read more »
By: James H. Capshew, University Historian Following the publication of the massive four volume history of Indiana University: Midwestern Pioneer, by Thomas Clark, completed in 1977, the idea of a pictorial history of the university slowly took shape. Although commercial picture books of the campus had been produced occasionally, no attempt to visually document the… Read more »
By: Noni Ford, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, Media, Bloomington Listen to the podcast here: Many protests occurred at IU Bloomington in the 1960s, but one in particular helped catalyze a great deal of change for African-Americans on campus and contributed to the development of the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center: the Little… Read more »