Last summer, eight theater MFAs and IU associate professor Paul Brunner sat around a table and dreamed up a plan for the year to come. The question: How to build a “Vortex of Dreams” sculpture and a fantastical red locker-scape and send them both across an ocean to the 2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance and… Read more »
Editor’s note: Tickets are currently on sale for Indiana Festival Theatre’s productions of “As You Like It,” with upcoming performances July 18, 22, and 24 at 7:30 p.m. and July 19 and 25 at 2 p.m. and “The Gentleman from Indiana,” with performances July 19, 21, 23 and 25 at 7:30 p.m. and July 18… Read more »
I have been interested in depression research since I was in high school, even submitting a proposal to determine its prevalence at my school to the science fair committee (unfortunately, it was rejected!). Given that so many people suffer from depression and anxiety, and a certain amount don’t respond to treatment, it became clear to… Read more »
“Is Harvard Unfair to Asian-Americans?” The New York Times headline made me do a double take. The date was November 25, 2014. The op-ed responded to a lawsuit filed the previous week by a group called Project for Fair Representation. The organization alleged that the university’s objective of racial “balancing” unfairly discriminated against high-achieving applicants… Read more »
I recently received a note of thanks from IU East student Shyla Mahlerwein for the scholarship that facilitated her service course to the Dominican Republic last fall. “Every day that I wake up, I remember that trip and the people and the places and my life continues to feel different and more profound because of… Read more »
