By Susan Burns How many times have you walked into the IMU through the Alumni Hall door and turned right? Starbucks greets us to the left, but what about that quiet, chapel-like room to the right as we walk toward the comfy South Lounge? Inside is a document that records the names of more than… Read more »
Get to Know the 2023 Union Board Directors
Gabriella Couloubaritsis President ubpres@indiana.edu Year: Junior Major: Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation Minor: Law & Public Policy What is your favorite band/group? Pitbull What’s a show are you watching or would recommend others to watch? Psych What is your favorite restaurant in Bloomington? Samira What’s your favorite space in the IMU? UB Office What are your… Read more »
Alumni Spotlight: Jeff Williams
By Brandon Huang, 2023 Union Board Director of Internal Communications Jeff Williams graduated from Indiana University in 2012 after serving on Union Board as the Director of Destinations / Spirits on the 2010 board. He is a marketing professional as well as a social entrepreneur that takes pride in working to support his communities. Jeff… Read more »
Alumni Spotlight: Kat Posada
By Cathy Deal “History has its eyes on you,” sings the cast of the Broadway musical “Hamilton.” JWS member Kat Posada has risen to that challenge. In 2018, she was teaching at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when the horrific shooting massacre of seventeen students took place there. In its aftermath, Kat “felt called… Read more »
From the 2023 Union Board President
Hello John Whittenberger Society – I am a junior studying Entrepreneurship & Corporate Innovation and Law & Public Policy and I am originally from Memphis, Tennessee. I have been on Union Board since Fall 2021 – first as a Lectures committee member, then as the 2022 Lectures Director, and now as the 2023 Union Board… Read more »
Union Board at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival
By Brandon Huang, 2023 Union Board Director of Internal Communications This January, four Union Board Directors had the opportunity to attend the 2023 Sundance Film Festival on behalf of Union Board. Since 1985, the Sundance Film Festival has been a premier showcase of emerging talent in American and international independent film. In this segment, these… Read more »
Alumni Spotlight: Barbara Singer
By Cathy Deal Barbara Singer’s history is one of initiative. She likes to say that she majored in student activities while she was an undergrad student, because she dabbled in many different organizations and committees (while achieving academic success as an eventual Mortar Board member. Barbara was heavily focused on Union Board committee work, in… Read more »
How Ernie Pyle’s journalism helped create the IMU
By Susan Burns When Ernest T. Pyle arrived at IU in the fall of 1919, the university was just composed of 15 buildings lined up along Third St and Indiana Avenue, bordering woods and the old Dunn farm, whose meadow stretched out along Seventh Street. Enrollment had jumped to 2,300 men and women who scrambled… Read more »
Fall Update from the Union Board President
Hello John Whittenberger Society members, This past fall has been an extremely vibrant time on IU’s campus and the 113th Indiana Memorial Union Board. Over the course of the semester, the directors on board have been extremely busy creating rich, powerful, and fun programming for the booming 47,000 students on campus. A few notable events… Read more »
Mervis Lecture featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones held in October
The third installment of the Lou Mervis Distinguished lecture series was held this fall. Gabriella Couloubaritsis, the Union Board Director of Lectures expanded the lecture this year to include more opportunities for students to interact with Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, and creator of the… Read more »