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Tag: Peter Dorfman
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‘The Vice President’s Black Wife’: New Book by IU History Professor
Dr. Amrita Chakrabarti Myers regards her work as an academic focused on slavery and Black women’s history as a “labor…
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CDFI Friendly Bloomington Offers Capital Resources for Civic Projects
Bloomington, like many cities, has infrastructure, housing, and transportation challenges that need to be addressed. But the solutions to those…
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IU Prof Is ‘Thought Leader’ In the Fight for Cyberpeace
In September 2019, an international consortium with corporate funding launched the CyberPeace Institute, an independent nongovernmental agency created to address…
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Documentary on IU’s Henry Glassie Premieres at Toronto Film Festival
The documentary film Henry Glassie: Field Work opens with a series of vignettes of Brazilian sculptors creating traditional sacred art.…
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Philanthropic Venture Fund Invests in IU-Related Startups
For those familiar with the high-risk, high-return business of venture capital, the phrase “philanthropic venture fund” may sound like a…
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Private Giving Made Public Through the IU Foundation
Indiana University students may not know what goes on at the Indiana University Foundation headquarters on the Ind. 45/46 Bypass.…
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Room at the Table: Host an Immigrant Family for Dinner
Even as America struggles with national immigration policy and animosity toward immigrants runs high in some places, two young social…
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Priscilla Barnes: TV & Film Star Performed Here in Play at BPP
Priscilla Barnes was in Bloomington for several weeks in April and May, performing in the Bloomington Playwrights Project production of…
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At Carnegie Hall: Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED Talk Plays as a Choral Composition
In July 2018, neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor received an unexpected email from Brad and Doug Balliett, the renowned twin orchestral…
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The Mill—An Incubator for Entrepreneurial Start-Ups
In 2015, when Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton took office, Dimension Mill, the century-old former Showers Brothers factory building at 642…
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