By: Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistant Nursing education at Indiana University dates back to 1914, when the Indiana University Training School for Nurses opened its doors in Indianapolis. Since that time, Indiana University has changed in many ways, including the expansion of the university to a total of nine campuses, many of which offer… Read more »
By: Alexandria Ruschman, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2021, International Studies and Central Eurasian Studies, IU Bloomington Edited by: Ellie Kaverman and Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistants In 1870, only eight state universities accepted women, including Indiana University. At the time, many women who wanted a higher education faced stigma and criticism. Popular pseudoscience of… Read more »
By: Ellie Kaverman, Office of the Bicentennial Graduate Assistant When Betty LeBus came to Indiana University in 1950 as the newly hired law librarian and instructor in law, she inherited a library that was in its infancy. In the years to come, LeBus would help build the library from the ground up. During her 28-year… Read more »
By: Alexandria Ruschman, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2021, International Studies and Central Eurasian Studies, IU Bloomington Edited by: Ellie Kaverman and Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistants During Alice McDonald Nelson’s 45-year career at IU Bloomington as the Director of Residence Life, she “built” more than 100 buildings valued at more than $60 million.[1]… Read more »
By: Samantha Riley, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2020, French and Anthropology, IUPUI Edited by: Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistant “I like to think of the archivist as an hour glass which is preserving the past for the future [of which] the middle is the archivist.”[1]–Jeannette Matthew At IUPUI, the archives connect the school’s present… Read more »
By: Arielle Pare, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2021, International Studies, French, Bloomington Edited by: Ellie Kaverman and Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistants For nearly 70 years, Indiana was home to “one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement,” Mari Evans.[1] While Evans’ poetry is known worldwide, she also earned a reputation as a… Read more »
By: Ellie Kaverman, Bicentennial Graduate Assistant History is full of unknown and unremembered stories. Once such story is that of Ingeborg Schmidt, an early female professor in the IU School of Optometry. Early Life and Education Ingeborg Schmidt was born on December 26, 1899 near Tartu, Estonia. After she earned her medical degree from the… Read more »
By: Arielle Pare, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2021, International Studies, French, Bloomington Edited by: Ellie Kaverman and Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistants In the decades since the early years of the women’s liberation movement, women’s and gender studies academic programs have swept across the nation’s colleges, including Indiana University South Bend. A professor of… Read more »
By: Samantha Riley, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2020, French and Anthropology, IUPUI Edited by: Ellie Kaverman and Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistants On September 7, 1922, six students from the Indiana University Training School for Nurses in Indianapolis discussed a dream: to create an organization to recognize nursing merit and scholarship. The women went… Read more »
By: Samantha Riley, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2020, French and Anthropology, IUPUI Edited by: Bre Anne Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistant “The dream I always had, and the reason I entered medicine was to affect the health care of as many people as possible. When I think about achievement, mine has been in gaining the freedom… Read more »