Devin Bates (they/he) is a journalism major at IU Indianapolis with an interest in writing and the arts. In their free time they also enjoy crafts like cosplay and listening to music.
The Division of Student Affairs is holding a series of welcome and opportunity events for students as part of Weeks of Welcome, a two-week run of expos and programs at the start of the semester aimed at getting students involved on campus and abroad.
International Vulture Awareness Day, observed the first Saturday in September, was established in 2006 by the Hawk Conservancy Trust of England and the Endangered Wildlife Trust's Birds of Prey Programme of South Africa. The day exists to draw attention to a group of birds whose diet tends to keep them off most people's list of animals worth saving.
Dolly Parton, the singer, songwriter and philanthropist known as the "Queen of Country," died Aug. 25 at 80. "After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center surrounded by loved ones," her representatives said in a statement. She died in Nashville.
The Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University’s own art school, is hosting an annual exhibition, the Allen Whitehill Clowes Collaborative. The exhibition is put on alongside Clowes Charitable Foundation and Hoosier Art Salon. This year's show began on March 7 and continued until April 4, 2026. The exhibit shows Indiana’s top Hoosier Art Salon awardees of the year and others as a part of the competition.
The Paralympics took place from March 6 to March 15 and was the concluding Olympics event in Milan and Cortina Italy, where disabled athletes competed for medals in winter sports including skiing — both cross country and downhill — along with hockey and snowboarding.
“Iron Lung,” an independent film produced by the Markiplier Studio, has been an anticipated movie for fans of the director. Mark Fischbach, most known by his online persona Markiplier, directed the film and plays the main protagonist, Simon, who is forced to man a sealed submarine on an alien world in a sea of blood. With little knowledge of his task, Simon follows cryptic directions he can only assume will benefit humanity's survival.
The 2026 winter Olympics are underway, hosted by Italy in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. Every Olympics, viewers tune in to watch the world’s best athletes take to the ice and slopes, competing for gold, silver and bronze medals for their home countries.
The 2026 NFL Super Bowl in Santa Clara, California between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots, announced on Sept. 28 that the artist playing their halftime show would be Puerto Rican rapper Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, otherwise known as Bad Bunny.
In the fall of 2025, IU enrolled all of its students in an online course called Gen AI 101, which earned students a microcredential that showed they had been trained to use artificial intelligence (AI) in an efficient way as a tool and thought partner. Some classes, including Foundations of Journalism and Mass Communications, have even asked students to complete this course.
This year at Newfields Art Museum of Indianapolis, watercolor is a large theme in their temporary exhibitions. From the historic pieces of J.M.W. Turner, a forefather of watercolor to the modern local artists competing in a competition dedicated to watercolor, this art could be found within the state’s radius as Newfields was displaying the 43rd watercolor annual juried show.
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