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: 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 Policing and justice have always been important topics in American life. Before Martin Luther King Jr. entered the mainstream American narrative in the 1950s through the Civil Rights Movement, academics such as… 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 Dr. Coramae Richey Mann worked diligently to expose the systemic racism of the American criminal justice system. She served as a mentor to countless students and was a well known expert who… 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 “I began singing for the civil rights movement when it was not fashionable to do so. I was never paid for it. I just did it because it… Read more »
By: Arielle Pare, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2021, International Studies, French, Bloomington Edited by: Ellie Kaverman and Bre Ann Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistants In the last 60 years, many colleges across the country have created programs to help equalize access and completion of higher education. One such program created at Indiana University, the Groups Scholars… Read more »
By: Arielle Pare, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2021, International Studies, French, Bloomington Edited by: Ellie Kaverman and Bre Ann Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistants Dr. Benjamin F. Peery Jr., an astrophysicist and professor at IU from 1960 to 1977, was the second African-American to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy. His research in astronomy and astrophysics were… Read more »
By: Arielle Pare, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2021, International Studies, French, Bloomington Edited by: Ellie Kaverman and Bre Ann Briskey, Bicentennial Graduate Assistants Dr. Barbara Shalucha, Associate Professor Emeritus of Biology at Indiana University, brought together community connections and an appreciation for nature to improve the resources available to both Bloomington residents and IU students…. Read more »