Indiana University

Letters: Reagan and a radicalizing UC

2013-05-14 00:00:00

Re "Reagan and the fall of UC," Opinion, May 10 Seth Rosenfeld argues that then-Gov. Ronald Reagan's opposition to the 1960s radicalization of the University of California campuses — Berkeley in particular — was the main driver in the...

Janos Starker dies at 88; renowned cellist won a Grammy in 1997

2013-04-30 00:00:00

Janos Starker, a renowned concert cellist as well as a distinguished teacher and recording artist, died Sunday at his home in Bloomington, Ind. He was 88 and had been in declining health. Since 1958, Starker had been a professor at the Indiana...

Janos Starker, world-famous cellist, dies at 88

2013-04-28 17:43:00

Janos Starker, a renowned concert cellist as well as a distinguished teacher and recording artist, has died. He was 88. Starker, who died Sunday in Bloomington, Ind., had been in terminal care for the last few weeks, according to reports from wire...

In many patients, diagnostic testing isn't reassuring after all

2013-02-27 06:00:00

A lot of us find our way to the doctor with strange aches and pains that are very, very unlikely to be caused by serious illness -- headaches, back pains or stomach troubles, to name a few. To be on the safe side, physicians will often order tests to rule...

Rankings of online college and graduate programs released

2013-01-14 21:04:03

PASSINGS: R.G. Armstrong, Norman Alden, Ted Hinshaw, Neil Reed

2012-08-01 00:00:00

R.G. Armstrong Actor a favorite of Peckinpah R.G. Armstrong, 95, a veteran character actor who started his career in the 1950s on Broadway, segued to television, then solidified his standing as a favorite of filmmakers Sam Peckinpah and Warren Beatty,...

PASSINGS: Carlo Rambaldi, David Scott

2012-08-11 00:00:00

Carlo Rambaldi Oscar-winning special effects master Carlo Rambaldi, 86, an Academy Award-winning special effects master known as the father of "E.T.," died Friday in southern Italy after a long illness, Italian news media reported. He won visual...

Elinor Ostrom dies at 78; first woman to win Nobel in economics

2012-06-13 00:00:00

Elinor Ostrom, an Indiana University political economist who in 2009 became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics by demonstrating that local communities can manage imperiled natural resources as well as or better than the government or...

McManus: Obama evolves on gay marriage

2012-05-10 00:00:00

President Obama's announcement Wednesday that he was done "evolving" and now supports same-sex marriage was, in retrospect, inevitable. Vice President Joe Biden made it so Sunday, when he remarked almost casually that he had grown "comfortable" with gay...

Dick Clark dies at 82; he introduced America to rock 'n' roll

2012-04-19 00:00:00

Dick Clark, the youthful-looking television personality who literally introduced rock 'n' roll to much of the nation on "American Bandstand" and for four decades was the first and last voice many Americans heard each year with his New Year's Eve...

Hilton Kramer dies at 84; polarizing but widely read art critic

2012-03-28 00:00:00

Hilton Kramer, one of the art world's most polarizing and widely read critics for 50 years and founding editor of the conservative arts journal The New Criterion, died Tuesday in Harpswell, Maine. He was 84. Kramer had a rare blood disorder and died of...

Renato Dulbecco dies at 97; 1975 Nobel Prize winner in medicine

2012-02-21 00:00:00

Dr. Renato Dulbecco, an Italian American virologist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for demonstrating how certain types of viruses invade mammalian cells to cause cancer, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in La Jolla....

Manuel Lara, a phD student at Indiana University, arranges detector modules inside Hall D of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility at Jefferson Lab on Thursday. The newly-constructed hall is part of Jefferson Lab's $310 million upgrade and will be the site of photon research.

2013-02-08 15:25:00

In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in Gary, Ind., medical student Jimmy Beasley, left, speaks with Joan Terry, about her sister, donor Judy A. Clemens, after a memorial service for bodies donated to science at Indiana University School of Medicine - Northwest.

2013-01-29 04:32:00

Chris Franz has been named a partner in Legacy Professionals LLP. He has a Bachelor's degree from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

2013-01-11 12:31:00