Inauguration of Michael McRobbie Photo by Chris Meyer On Oct. 18 at the IU Auditorium in Bloomington, faculty, staff, Hoosier dignitaries and delegates from academic institutions throughout the world witnessed the formal investiture of IU’s 18th president. Michael McRobbie (center) is pictured here with his wife, Laurie Burns McRobbie, and Edwin Marshall, university grand marshal. IU Home Pages will publish a souvenir newsprint edition of Celebrate IU Week on Nov. 2. To read the text or to watch an archived videostream of the inaugural address, go to these web sites: http://www.indiana.edu/~pres/ and http://broadcast.iu.edu.
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Light Totem

Illumination

The chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities will return to Bloomington for the lighting of Rob Shakespeare's Light Totem at the IU Art Museum Oct. 26. The installation will illuminate the I.M. Pei building for the remainder of the year, a project funded in part by an IU New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities grant.

  • The atmospheric approach: Robert Shakespeare at the forefront of lighting design
  • IU Art Museum building lights up with 25th anniversary celebration

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    Economic road show

    As paychecks continue to shrink and mortgage meltdown is widespread, some of IU’s best and brightest business and economic forecasters will travel throughout the state, beginning Nov. 1, to share their views on how the economy is shaping up for the new year.

    ‘The Bloomington Boomerang’

    Abonour IU oncologist Rafat Abonour treats multiple myeloma and will literally hit the pavement the first weekend of November to raise research dollars toward finding a cure.

    A little help from friends

    The sum of gifts from private donors and non-governmental research grants reached the third highest level in the university’s history.

    Sizzlin’

    Check out IU Southeast’s new web site.

    Bottle science

    Science Bottle A 40-year-old container left at the IUB Department of Chemistry by the inventor of carbonless copy paper recently led to a collaborative project in chemical sleuthing.

    Planning summits

    A summit on dementia care in Indianapolis and another in Bloomington on sexual health issues create alliances and knowledge transfer among experts on two crucial topics in Hoosier health care provision.

    Knowledge transfer

    Miller Geralyn Miller is the director of IPFW’s new Institute for Pension Plan Management, the nation’s first professional development resource with specific focus on pension plan policy, management and administration.

    Media of experience

    Miller Multi-media artist Stelarc’s Prosthetic Head is displayed at Gallery Northwest this week in Gary, and the artist will speak at IU Kokomo Oct. 23 as part of an IU New Frontiers grant. At IUSB Oct. 25, artist Michael Lasater will give the annual Research Award Lecture on his biographically driven work in video, animation and sound. Later this month: the Turnley brothers return to IUB as Branigin Lecturers.