By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Not many courses conclude with the students voting to exile the instructor. Not many instructors would be happy about it. But Jeremy Wells, associate professor of English, isn’t just any instructor. Wearing a zombie mask and communicating only in grunts, Wells humbly accepted banishment at the end of his literature …
FULL STORYQuinn Dauer Assistant Professor of History and International Studies School of Social Sciences By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Quinn Dauer’s path to becoming a Latin American historian was . . . unusual. He grew up in a small Minnesota farm town of about 500 souls, and attended a high school that maxed out at about …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Beliefs. They frame our identity and shape our horizon. They can limit, imprison, defeat us. Or they can give form to our dreams and motivate us to pursue them. A pre-occupation with beliefs figures strongly in the life and work of Sumreen Asim, assistant professor of elementary science and technology …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—It’s urinalysis day in the Physiology 215 Lab, taught by Professor of Biology Dr. Kent Edmonds. Over the course of the two-hour lab, students consume specified amounts of water, saline and bicarbonate solutions, and then, every half hour, collect their own personal urine specimen in the nearby restroom. They subject …
FULL STORYDr. Suparna Mukhopadhyay, lecturer in biology, has been recognized as 2019 Faculty Innovator of the Year by the Institute of Learning and Teaching Excellence (ILTE). “Dr. M,” as she is known to her students, was chosen from among a field of eight colleagues from across the disciplines, each of whom was the subject of an …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—A life-size bronze statue of a woolly mammoth stands in front of the Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska. Inside the Museum, in a room colloquially known as Elephant Hall, mammoth and mastodon skeletons tower over visitors, giving a sense of the size and strength of the large mammals that …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—In 2001, when employees of the firm Arthur Andersen were found guilty of obstruction justice after shredding financial documents implicating them and their client, Enron, in possible federal crimes, several business students at IU Southeast reached out to Linda Christiansen. “You are clairvoyant!” they said, more or less in unison. …
FULL STORYGary Pinkston Associate Professor of Education School of Education By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Gary Pinkston, associate professor of education and educational technology instructor, asked a volunteer to grip his arm, as the class looked on. The volunteer gripped hard. Pinkston tried to free himself by pulling back, …
FULL STORYYunmi Choi Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication School of Arts and Letters By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Yunmi Choi, assistant professor of strategic communication, can explain why classic rock is used in beer and truck commercials during football games. It’s because of the reminiscence bump, an advertising term …
FULL STORYSuparna Mukhopadhyay Lecturer in Biology School of Natural Sciences By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)— “You can put me anywhere, and I can teach it,” said Suparna Mukhopadhyay, lecturer in biology. With her universal expertise and can-do spirit, Mukhopadhyay blends the micro and the macro to give students …
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