2009 Features
Emissaries for Graduate Student Diversity serving as mentors to newcomers (IU Home Pages)
Starting graduate school can be an unsettling experience, combining long hours of often solitary work with the challenge of finding one’s place on a new campus and in a new city.
Conversation Exchange Promotes International Friendships (Teaching & Learning magazine)
International and American students learn about each other’s cultures while practicing English one-on-one.
IU-Newark-Rwanda partnership bridges education gap (Indiana Daily Student)
Global Village students and high school students from a Newark, N.J. charter school co-author books for Rwandan school children.
Mock trial to grill IU professors on the stand as characters from Shakespeare (IU Home Pages)
Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Polonius and the Three Witches, among others, are on the docket for grilling by Intensive Freshman Seminar students.
Twenty-five years of Summer String Academy (IU Home Pages)
This summer marks the 25th anniversary of Indiana University’s prestigious Jacobs School of Music Summer String Academy, which brings together students and renowned faculty from around the world.
Online learning tool building bridges developed at IU ‘building bridges’ nationwide (IU Home Pages)
An online learning tool developed by an IU chemistry professor has great potential nationwide for teaching science, technology, engineering and math in high schools
Theory into Practice (Teaching & Learning magazine)
Veteran associate instructors mentor new teachers in the Department of English’s Composition Program
Connecting the world through gaming (Chalkboard)
Quest Atlantis immersive learning environment expands from School of Education professor’s idea to global education tool
In new life sciences labs, HPER students learn by doing (IU News Room)
New teaching labs give HPER students more immediate access to research.
Drawing the Line in Cyberspace (Teaching & Learning magazine)
Kalpana Shankar’s informatics ethics course prepares students to make rational, moral decisions in the shifting terrain of computer and information technology.
Kelley Honors students to develop leadership skills by mentoring their peers in new program (IU News Room)
Students cultivate managerial abilities by working with their peers both as individuals and as members of student teams.
