Year in review: Top stories from 2015
From Grand Challenges to global gateways, mythical first flowers to marathon dancing and bicentennial campaigns to a Big Apple bowl game for our gridiron Hoosiers, 2015 offered another set of amazing accomplishments, discoveries and milestones at Indiana University Bloomington.
As always, there were almost too many good happenings on our bustling and dynamic campus to report, spanning our top-ranked academic programs, arts and music scene, international culture and, of course, IU sports. Here in the IU Newsroom, we did our best to share as much as we could, giving you, we hope, a sense of what makes IU Bloomington such a special place and how much we all have to look forward to in the coming year.
So as we prepare to ring in 2016, here’s a quick look back at a busy and productive 2015:
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New complexes and centers
- IU, IU Health Bloomington Hospital announce new health complex
- IU Athletics receives $5M gift to establish the Mark Cuban Center for Sports Media and Technology
New programs and schools
- IU trustees approve IU Bloomington engineering program, new degrees
- IU Board of Trustees endorses proposed School of Art and Design in Bloomington
Grand Challenges
New discoveries
- IU Archives director discovers first African-American woman to attend Indiana University
- IU creates scholarship to honor first female African-American student
- IU paleobotanist identifies what could be the mythical ‘first flower’
- Not-so-guilty pleasure: Viewing cat videos boosts energy and positive emotions, IU study finds
Financial feats
- Indiana University trustees approve two-year undergraduate tuition freeze at IU Bloomington
- Indiana University financial literacy program earns national recognition
Dedication of new Global and International Studies Building
- IU to dedicate its new Global and International Studies Building
- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to address IU’s School of Global and International Studies
IU Athletics will be the first institution in the nation to broadcast college basketball games in Mandarin.
International IU
- IU President McRobbie travels to Germany to open new IU Global Gateway office in Berlin
- Indiana University to broadcast all IU men’s basketball home games in Mandarin
Student successes
- IU Chamber Orchestra to perform in Seoul, South Korea, over spring break
- IU Dance Marathon raises record $3.8 million for Riley Hospital for Children
Bicentennial campaign
IU football goes to Pinstripe Bowl
Honorable mentions
- New thematic residence hall community coming to IU in the fall
- IU scientist part of international team launching fossil database
- Her Story
- Indiana University Maurer School of Law announces $20 million gift
- IU to unveil lighting display on limestone brain sculpture during public ceremony
- Annual running of Little 500 bicycle race draws thousands to Bloomington
- A tradition revived: Chime in IU’s Student Building to be played weekly
- IU Auditorium marks 75 years with 2015-16 season
- IU Maurer School of Law announces locked-in tuition for entering classes
- Keepers of the bees
- IU Bloomington makes Campus Pride list of top 25 LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities
- Students aim to inspire at first TEDxIndianaUniversity
- IU School of Informatics and Computing breaks ground on new building
- IU-funded project breaks ground on ‘functional sculpture’ bird habitat in Bloomington
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